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As my History Hit email subscription dutifully reminded me, yesterday (as this is written), 2 February, marked the 80th anniversary of the Battle of...
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As my History Hit email subscription dutifully reminded me, yesterday (as this is written), 2 February, marked the 80th anniversary of the Battle of...
Donald Trump Won’t Commit to 2024 GOP Nominee If He Looses: It’s a memorable moment from an early debate in the 2015 Republican primaries: The candidates were...
Joe Biden: A Historic President? Neocon Bret Stephens has an opinion piece out with The New York Times guessing at what President Joe Biden’s legacy...
Did Hitler Have Anyway to Invade the US During World War II? A 5 Minute Answer – It is a common theme in science fiction...
It is hard to believe the hype that potential deployments of German Leopard and U.S. Abrams tanks have triggered in the western media. Every...
Earlier this month, the United States Navy’s Nimitz Carrier Strike Group (NIMCSG) began operations in the South China Sea – the first during the...
Ask any armchair historian to name the largest naval battle in history and a typical response is the “Battle of Leyte Gulf,” fought in October 1944 off the...
While the big, nuclear-powered aircraft carriers of today surely capture the imagination, smaller flattops during World War II certainly held their own: While smaller and...
The Worst Tank Ever: Panzer VIII Maus – A shortlist of the worst tanks would most certainly include the Bob Semple tank, which was...
The H44 would have been a 144,000-ton monster battleship. And thankfully, it was never meant to be: Before the outbreak of the Second World War,...