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July 16, 2019In 1938, during one of his first meetings with President Franklin Roosevelt, Gen. George Marshall listened to plans to counter Hitler's military build-up by amassing an air...
June 17, 2019The anti-military left spent much loud energy during the mid-1900s denouncing Air Force Gen. Curtis LeMay as a bomb-happy terror who was itching for a first-strike war...
May 2, 2019According to ancient — and highly dubious — mythology, a laser beam was first used as a weapon around 215 BCE, when Roman invaders threatened the Grecian city of...
April 22, 2019Navy aviation officials were stunned in the late 1960s at the heavy losses sustained in Operation Rolling Thunder, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara's attempt to win the...
March 15, 2019This extraordinarily detailed work delivers a stark message: “Maritime China poses challenges now that America, its allies, and its friends overlook at their peril.”The...
March 5, 2019The truly professional service officers sworn to guard chiefs of state and other dignitaries — notably U.S. Secret Service officers — have a hard rule: Good intelligence...
February 25, 2019Although not recognized as such at the time, the deadly explosion that wrecked the Soviet Union's showcase nuclear plant in Chernobyl in 1986 was an advance obituary both...
February 13, 2019Freed from a Soviet prison after months of captivity, U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers was stunned to find that although he had flown one of the more dangerous missions of the Cold War,...
January 24, 2019A chronic problem for spies operating in enemy territory is transmitting their findings to their home base. The problem was especially acute in World War II Europe, where German...
