The History of Veterans Day
“NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby call upon all …
Military History
Excerpt – The Airplane Joins the Club
Based on the work of Lilienthal and others, it was only a matter of time before someone figured out how …
Interview With Flights of No Return Author Steve Ruffin
Flights of No Return: Aviation History’s Most Infamous One-Way Tickets to Immortality, which we reviewed recently, is an outstanding …
Parris Island Celebrates 100th Anniversary | Video
This great video by Defense Media Activity – Marines, provides the viewer a look back at the history of Parris …
Submarine Development
The historical record is awash with examples of early peoples seeking to explore the underwater world. In a section of …
The Ravens and the Secret Air War in Laos
Two wars were being waged in Southeast Asia in the 1960s and early 1970s. One was the “public war” …
Avro CF-105: Canada’s ‘Great White Hope’
Today, Canada’s lawmakers and defense leaders procured the F-35A Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) as the future of Ottawa’s fighter force. …
Brilliant Mistakes: The YB-40
We are reminded ceaselessly of how crucial breakthroughs like bronze weapons, longbows, the stirrup, gunpowder, rifles, the airplane, the …
Vought F6U Pirate
The F6U Pirate fighter arrived at a critical juncture in naval aviation history, the time when propeller-driven warplanes were beginning …
Project Horizon: Army Base on the Moon
“ … a lunar outpost … is of critical importance to the U.S. Army of the future.” It was March …