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Chester Nimitz’s rule was “when you’re in command, command.” After Pearl Harbor he used aircraft carriers at Coral Sea and Midway to break the...
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Chester Nimitz’s rule was “when you’re in command, command.” After Pearl Harbor he used aircraft carriers at Coral Sea and Midway to break the...
The Treaty of Fontainebleau left him ruling an island of 12,000 people, and even the allowance it promised went unpaid. His wife and son...
He had walked into a minefield in Vietnam in May 1970 to pull out wounded men, and was hurt by a second mine while...
By 2010 a platoon leader in Iraq answered the question of how he spent his time with three words: making PowerPoint slides. Junior officers...
The line everyone quotes is a compression. What Wellington told Croker was that all the business of war, and of life, is to find...
The line about thanking God that such men lived comes from a state dinner at the Copley Plaza Hotel, hosted by Massachusetts Gov. Maurice...
Philip II was assassinated in 336 BC, and within roughly two years his son faced three separate revolts. At Mount Ossa, Alexander built staircases...
He had spent the war avoiding battle rather than seeking it, keeping the Continental Army alive by refusing to be caught. He also believed...
He was raised in Richland, Washington, in a house without a television, by a nuclear engineer who worked at the plant that supplied fissile...
He was born John Paul in Kirkcudbright, went to sea at twelve, served as first mate on a slaver and left the trade in...