When I started the new blog I wanted to try out some things I have admired on other blogs. One of them is a post every Friday that consist of a collection of articles that the author set aside for Weekend Reading. Since I am a history buff/amateur historian I thought I would do a…
Tag: Military History
Military History: Operation Paul Bunyan – August 1976
Operation Paul Bunyan – August 1976 (click above link to be re-directed to Source Page) An Obscure piece of Military history that is both entertaining and enlightening as to how friggin crazy the North Korean’s really are. Stay Alert, Stay Armed and Stay Dangerous!
Applied Military History: Back to the Basics of Expeditionary Warfare
After more than a decade of expansive stability operations in the Middle East, the U.S. Army is embracing a more expeditionary posture. This shift finds America’s primary land power institution returning to its origins as a more modestly sized, but tactically effective, fighting force. During the final decade of the 18th century and throughout the…
Military History: The Winter War Part II (This Is Not The Fabian Strategy You Are Looking For)
In a recent article (Lessons from the Winter War: Frozen Grit and Finland’s Fabian Defense) Iskander Rehman gives a stirring tale of the Winter War pitting the Soviets against the Finns, but there is one big problem with it: It isn’t, as he argues, an example of a Fabian strategy. Rehman provides a link to…
Military Weapons From the Past: Winchester M2 Rifle
In the previous video, we looked at the Winchester G30M rifle as it was submitted to Marine Corps trials in 1940. When the trial result came back with the G30M in last place, Winchester immediately assigned David Williams to work on adapting it to resolve the problems found in testing. What Williams did was to…
Military History: “Nobody Can Soldier Without Coffee…”
In April 1865, at the bloody, bitter end of the Civil War, Ebenezer Nelson Gilpin, a Union cavalryman, wrote in his diary, “Everything is chaos here. The suspense is almost unbearable.” “We are reduced to quarter rations and no coffee,” he continued. “And nobody can soldier without coffee.” If war is hell, then for many…
Military History: The Attack of the USS Stark by an Iraqi Warplane in 1987
On May 17, 1987, the U.S. Navy guided missile frigate USS Stark was on a patrol in the central Persian Gulf, about three kilometers outside the Iraq-declared war-zone off the coast of Iran. Around 22.00hrs local time, Stark came under attack from an Iraqi air force fighter jet. Radars on the U.S. warship tracked the…
World War II History: Rare One Man Nazi Sub Photograph
In the below 1944 photo, colorized by Marina Amaral, US Army troops examine a one-man submarine that washed up on the Anzio beachhead in Italy. According to The National World War II Museum, the submarine was converted from a torpedo, with the warhead chamber replaced with a cockpit. US troops captured the 17-year-old Nazi pilot…
Military History: The Spanish Civil War – A World War II Trial Run
It was the BIGGEST Proxy War of it’s Time. A Mediterranean nation beset by military coup and civil war. A savage struggle marked by atrocities and fanaticism. Proxy war waged by outside nations pumping in men, weapons and money. Today’s Syria or Turkey? No, it’s sunny Spain, now a peaceful member of the European Union,…
World War I History: The Best Sniper of the Great War – Francis Pegahmagabow
I, for one, and am pleased to see the steady expansion of The Great War’s video library. It goes to show the power of Patreon campaigns and crowd-sourcing to back up and support great content creators who might otherwise not being able to afford producing. As a result of this, The Great War has been…