Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
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,...
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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...
The famous World War IV warning is a polished version of a thought Einstein expressed in 1949. His life moved from the Swiss Patent...
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....
The famous warning that money cannot create happiness is likely misattributed to Benjamin Franklin. Its idea still fits his life: Franklin built colonial America’s...
Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz believed leadership meant choosing capable people, giving them resources and resisting the urge to micromanage. From Midway to Guadalcanal...
The famous line about birth and purpose is often credited to Mark Twain, although the attribution is unsupported. It still provides a revealing frame...