Boer Irregulars at Ladysmith, 1899 By Major Jesse Burnette, U.S. Army The Boer War (1899-1902) is yet another example of a war uninformed by...

American Field Service Director A. Piatt Andrew and Future Director Stephen Galatti The work of the American Field Service grew directly and...

After being slowed down by the COVID fiasco, my old outfit Valor Tours, Ltd., has put together a terrific nine-day September package led by ...

Inside Fort de Souville Before the Big Battle The Battle of Verdun—the longest struggle of the Great War—came to a head over two days in Jul...

D'Annunzio Raises His Flag Over Fiume, September 1919 Fiume, now know as Rijeka in Croatia, is a city on the east shore of the Adriatic....

By Chad L. Williams Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023 David F. Beer, Reviewer W.E.B. Du Bois and American Officers in F...

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U- 110 in Drydock Following Its Recovery By Paul Gallagher,  Originally presented in Flashback ,  21 March 2016 Like the innards of some hel...

H. Gordon Chasseaud By Philip R. Devlin Born in Brooklyn, NY, on 20 November 1887, Herve Gordon Chasseaud (usually written as “H. Gordon Cha...

  Symptoms of Trench Fever from Lancet Articles The Causes and Treatment of Trench Mouth The First War with Mass Vaccinations of the Troops ...

Site of the First Shot of the Battle of the Marne Both the German and French armies intended to launch new offensives on 6 September 1914, t...

Elihu Root, Secretary of War and State (1845-1937) After the War with Spain the Army also underwent important organizational and administrat...