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One rule on a list handed to Marines in Iraq became the most quoted sentence in the modern military. The full Mattis biography behind...
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One rule on a list handed to Marines in Iraq became the most quoted sentence in the modern military. The full Mattis biography behind...
The ultimatum gave Bastogne two hours; the reply was typed, centered, and one word long. The full story of December 22, 1944 — the...
No letter or memoir carries the famous courage quote, but Napoleon performed it: escaped Elba with a thousand men, walked alone into the muskets...
Napoleon lost Corsica, failed in Egypt, suffered defeat at Aspern-Essling, watched his army collapse in Russia and surrendered his throne in 1814. Each time,...
A familiar joke about pigs reveals Winston Churchill’s private wit. His wartime success rested on harder qualities: refusing negotiations in 1940, holding a coalition...
US Army General George Patton believed commanders should define the objective and trust trained subordinates to find the route. His World War II record...
Dwight D. Eisenhower became a five-star general, led the Allied invasion of Europe and served two terms as president. Yet the line most closely...
Alexander the Great became king of Macedon at 20 in 336 BCE, after his father Philip II was assassinated. He died in Babylon on...
At 1104 on 4 May 1982, two Argentine Super Étendards launched Exocets at HMS Sheffield from twenty to thirty miles out. The ship's anti-air...
USS Mississippi entered service in 1917 as a 32,000-ton dreadnought armed with twelve 14-inch guns. She survived two turret disasters and two kamikaze strikes,...