The BBC broadcast Britain’s Falkland War invasion plan before the invasion
It doesn’t take a military genius to know that an enemy acquiring your war plans could be an unmitigated disaster. Journalist Geraldo Rivera got kicked out of the Iraq War…
Biden made a surprise visit to Ukraine almost one year since Russia’s invasion
On February 20, 2023, President Joe Biden traveled to Kyiv, Ukraine. The trip was a surprise with few people knowing of the visit. Biden’s presence in Ukraine highlights the one-year…
How the Vietnamese fought off a series of Mongol invasions
Fighting off the United States wasn’t Vietnam’s only against-all-odds victory against a superior force. The Vietnam War wasn’t even the country’s most recent win against a bigger, more powerful country….
How Japan reacted to the Allied invasion of Normandy on D-Day
When you’re fighting a global conflict alongside two other countries, one of them get knocked out of the war, and the third suddenly has an existential threat introduced to it…
Don’t let anyone tell you support for Ukraine is on the decline in 2023
It may seem like one big joke to many in the United States and in American media, but the inability to reach a majority vote for Speaker of the House…
How the battles of Attu and Kiska in Alaska set the stage for Allied victory in the Pacific
“Damn American dogs, we massacre you!” a Japanese soldier screamed through the fog toward the cold, hungry and exhausted American soldiers huddled below in valley foxholes on the island of…
A single French airplane bombed Berlin before the fall of France
By June 7, 1940, France was fighting for its life. On May 10th of that year, Nazi Germany invaded Belgium and the Netherlands along with France and quickly overwhelmed all…
The last invasion of Britain was stopped cold by wine and Welsh women
In 1797, Britain had been at war with Revolutionary France for nearly five years and it was not going well for the English and its Coalition allies. That doesn’t mean…
How an 83-year-old Russian led an invading enemy right into an ambush
No matter how many times history proves it, invading enemies still trust Russian peasants to help them and it always blows up in their faces. The Mongols seem to be…
These are the worst diseases contracted in combat zones by invading armies
Wartime outbreaks have massively diminished the combat power of armies, induced the disqualification and revocation of military actions, and wreaked havoc on civilian groups in belligerent and non-belligerent states throughout history….