The book Lincoln and His Admirals Begins with a gripping account of the attempt to re-supply Fort Sumter--a comedy of errors that shows all too clearly the fledgling president's inexperience--Sym...
Has the threat of terror caused us all to lose sight of what's really important? In a fascinating discussion of the book The Dark Side found on Elected Swineherd I found mention of a secret r...
It is nothing new that the military analysts can make or break public support in times of war.
Most people sit at home and feed of the reports and analysis of these very respectful people. We think...
I just found a rather interesting discussion on the type of war that the future may bring at the kings of war blog .
Is the old industrial war over?
‘our militaries are still stru...
The Russian invasion to South Ossetia is a new event that we are trying to see as an old one.
What I mean is that instead of seeing the situation in its unique context we react a...
Iraq's archaeological treasures are being looted on a daily basis.
This satellite photo is rather old from five years ago but the damage that is being caused to the ancient buried cities in Ir...
Daniel Sauerwein from the Military History Blog is asking to help the History News Network.
Having served with this organization for a couple of years, I can attest to the value of The Histor...
Sure they deny it now but as my gut feeling tells me it is possible that if we're not careful we'll end up with an Islamic state in Iraq.
If you think about it Arab countries that gave their citiz...
Is there a reason to believe Ahmadinejad when he says Iran has 5,000 centrifuges?
Will discusses Ahmadinejad's reasons to release such a statement so close to the deadline Iran has to decide whe...
Max Boot 's article as of this morning discusses the need of the East European countries to be able to protect themselves against Russian aspirations to regain control over larger and larger areas. ...
In his book What’s Left?: How Liberals Lost Their Way Nick Cohen, the British author raises the question of the way European liberalism treats Islamic Terrorism.
Beyond the contortions and be...
On 11 November 1918 at 11 am the guns of the Western Front fell silent after more than four years of continuous warfare. This year marks the 90th Anniversary of the Armistice, when Australians re...
Daniel B. Kaufmann was one of the ten officers chosen by Colonel James Nagle in the summer of 1861 to help recruit volunteers to serve in what would become the 48th Pennsylvania Infantry.
Capta...
Has Bush been making use of techniques that are much more appropriate to the regimes he fights?
It seems that a breach of journalism freedom and integrity was created deliberately by the Bush admi...
On the 29 August 1938 exactly 70 years ago The British responded to the the Sudeten crisis.
You can read an interesting discussion here and I just couldn't avoid comparing the way in which the w...
I keep on reading a lot of reviews about the war in Iraq, each one emphasizes another perspective but if I were to evaluate the results of the war and the influence it has on the American soldiers an...
In this time the most serious war of all is not defined along national lines. Sure all the western world is in a war against terrorism but unlike anything that is known to us from the past this is not...
Found a very interesting discussion on the Armchair Generalist blog that refers to this article of Lawrence J. Korb. The very important topic that I've decided to discuss further is the generals ...
I've read a very disturbing post on History Unfolding about the Israeli historian Morris that characterized the dangers that Iran poses to Israel with regard to its effort to develop nuclear ...
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