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The famous line about volunteering to die and enduring pain appears in Caesar’s Gallic War, though he places it in a Gallic leader’s speech....
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The famous line about volunteering to die and enduring pain appears in Caesar’s Gallic War, though he places it in a Gallic leader’s speech....
George Patton’s career repeatedly tested the resilience in his famous “bounce” quote, from West Point struggles to Sicily and Bastogne.
Napoleon is often credited with saying victory belongs to the commander who controls battlefield chaos. At Waterloo, French delays, confused attacks, failed coordination and...
On July 16, 1945, in a stretch of New Mexico desert called the Jornada del Muerto, scientists of the Manhattan Project detonated a plutonium...
The Iowa-class battleships carried nine 16-inch guns, outmatched by the 18.1-inch monsters on Japan's Yamato, the largest battleship guns ever made. Yet the American...
The Yamato and Musashi are remembered for how they sank. The stranger story is how they were built: shipyards torn down and rebuilt to...
“Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.”...
“Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.” – Carl von Clausewitz That quote is attributed to Carl von Clausewitz,...
“One of the most frequently noted characteristics of great men who have remained great is loyalty to their subordinates.” – General George Patton George...
In the early morning hours of May 2, 1964, two Viet Cong frogmen emerged from a sewer tunnel in the port of Saigon carrying...