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Weapons and Warfare: WHY HITLER WON A BATTLE BUT LOST THE WAR
“Once the immediate shock had passed, the search for explanations began. Why had Napoleon’s heirs fallen so quickly? Many Frenchmen chose to blame insidious Fifth Columnists: Nazi and Communist agents who had supposedly undermined
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Towards Data Science: Napoleon was the Best General Ever, and the Math Proves it.
By Ethan Arsht: Ranking Every* General in the History of Warfare *Almost every When Africanus asked who, in Hannibal’s opinion, was the greatest general, Hannibal named Alexander… as to whom he would rank second, Hannibal selected Pyrrhus… asking
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Sea Lion: Why not just invade the UK in 1940?
Military History Visualized Published on Oct 13, 2017 SUBSCRIBE 274KSUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBED UNSUBSCRIBE Quite often people remark Hitler should just have finished off the UK before attacking the Soviet Union. Well, there are many problems with that assumption.
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CNN: Where are the monuments to Confederate Gen. James Longstreet?
By Steven A. Holmes, CNN “So where are Longstreet’s statues? General James Longstreet was an important figure in the Confederate Army; as important as Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, J.E.B. Stuart or A.P. Hill; nearly as critical
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Popular Mechanics: “Researchers Find Wreckage of WWII-era USS Indianapolis”
From Popular Mechanics: “Civilian researchers say they have located the wreck of the USS Indianapolis, the World War II heavy cruiser that played a critical role in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima before being
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Longread: Whose Fault Was Dunkirk?
For years, historians have blamed King Leopold of Belgium. But did they fall for Allied propaganda? Below is an excerpt from Last Hope Island, by Lynne Olson. This story is recommended by Longreads contributing editor Dana Snitzky. “In all
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Independent: “Dunkirk: How Christopher Nolan’s film found real war ships for epic battle scenes”
By Chris Evans: Despite working on the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ franchise, ‘Castaway’ and ‘Captain Phillips’, nothing could have prepared marine coordinator Neil Andrea for the scale of the ‘Dunkirk’ shoot “We had Messerschmitts flying overhead, thousands of extras on
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Polygon: The art and craft of making board games for the CIA
By Charlie Hall Acclaimed designer Volko Ruhnke gives a whole new meaning to the term “serious games” “The United States has exactly 16 agencies devoted to intelligence gathering and analysis, but only one which reports
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