Saturday, March 7, 2026

If You Long to Hear The Last Post, This Rendition Is Perfect

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Friday, March 6, 2026

Stifled! America's Greatest Naval Theorist Was Forbidden to Comment Publicly about the First World War

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Mahan By Kevin D. McCranie, Naval War College As  July 1914 slipped into August, Europe convulsed into war. The actions of statesmen, the mo...
Thursday, March 5, 2026

Brigadier General Dennis Nolan—Father of American Military Intelligence

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Brigadier General Dennis E. Nolan By Dr. James J. Cooke, PhD Dennis E. Nolan (1872 – 1956) can very well be called the father of U.S. Army ...
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Wednesday, March 4, 2026

Steam-Powered Submarines in World War One? The Ill-Fated British K-Class

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Construction Drawings for K-Class Submarines (Click on Image to Enlarge) James Patton At the Portsmouth dockyard, design studies began in 19...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2026

The General by C.S. Forester

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  Originally presented in Slightly Foxed C. S. Forester’s 1936 masterpiece The General follows Lt General Herbert Curzon, who fumbled a for...
Monday, March 2, 2026

"Purging the Russian Land of All Kinds of Harmful Insects"—Lenin Initiates Tyranny

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                               "Comrade Lenin Cleansing the Land of Vermin" From Chapter 2, "The History Our Sewage Disposal ...
Sunday, March 1, 2026

The Wartime Lynching of Robert Prager

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By Derek Varble The Victim Robert Paul Prager was born on 28 February 1888 in Dresden, Germany. He emigrated from Germany to Baltimore, Mary...
Saturday, February 28, 2026

Remembering a Veteran: The Hon. Edward Barry Stewart Bingham, VC, Royal Navy

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Commander Edward Bingham, RN, (1881–1939) saw notable service at sea during the early years of the war aboard battlecruiser HMS Invincible ...
Friday, February 27, 2026

Out of the "Blunders and "Inefficiencies" of the Spanish-American War Emerged the 20th-Century U.S. Army

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A Fanciful Depiction of the Initial Landing in Cuba The Coming of War [When war with Spain was decided] A desperately overworked and underst...
Thursday, February 26, 2026

War Through the Eyes of Tin Pan Alley!

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Brooke Anderson The American 19th century was one of growth and consolidation. By the end of the century we had become an industrial nation ...
Wednesday, February 25, 2026

U.S. Naval Planners Meet the Reality of War

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  Return of the  Mayflower Painting by Bernard F. Gribble. U.S. Naval Academy By Paul Halpern The United States Navy entered the First World...