In light of the beginning of Attacks against Libya and the UN Security Council Resolution authorizing the establishment of a No-Fly Zone over part of Libya I thought it would be useful to have a post about Acts of War… Continue Reading →
Staff Sergeant Stanley Bender, US Army SSG Bender was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for actions in France during World War II. He climbed on top of a knocked out tank to locate the source of machine-gun fire… Continue Reading →
Caesar’s Gallic Wars are a series of eight books that Caesar either wrote or had written detailing his actions during the eight years he was the Roman governor in Gaul. They are best understood as an exercise in propaganda… Continue Reading →
I got my rough draft back from my Thesis professor this morning with the first round of requested corrections. It actually looks much better than I thought it would. There are not as many corrections as I expected… Continue Reading →
The Five Myths Archive at the Washington Post is an intriguing site that has some very interesting pieces in it of both contemporary and historical significance. none of them are particularly military that I could see though. *sigh*
Captain Charles Upham is one of the three men who were awarded the Victoria Cross twice. Both his awards were won during World War II, the first in the Battle for Crete in 1941 and the second at the… Continue Reading →
I figured I would touch on post-modernism/post-structuralism and my personal opinion of the phenomenon because I am seeing it more and more in contemporary academics. Let me preface this whole post by saying up-front that I think the whole post-modernist… Continue Reading →
Double VC holder: Surgeon Captain Arthur Martin-Leake Surgeon Captain Arthur Martin-Leake is a two-time winner of the Victoria Cross. He is one of only three men who have won the VC twice, and two of the double winners were… Continue Reading →
The Battle of Carrhae in 53 B.C. was one of the biggest military disasters Rome ever suffered, ranking right up there with Cannae, The Teutoberg Forest, and Lake Trasimene. The battle occurred in what is today Syria between a… Continue Reading →
I got my first article published this past week. I belong to the Society for Military History and in a recent society newsletter, they asked for people who had recently worked in an archive to submit a guide. … Continue Reading →
The last question that needs to be answered as concerns the parallels between Afghanistan and Vietnam is why we are not pursuing a campaign of territorial conquest. In Vietnam, the U.S. did not seek to gain and maintain control… Continue Reading →
I had to include Sergeant William Wilson because he is one of the nineteen people who have been twice awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor and because he belonged the regiment that I was assigned to for both of my… Continue Reading →
Book Review: Soldat: Reflections of German Soldier, 1936-1949 by Sigfried Knappe and Ted Brusaw I realized this morning that it has been a while since I posted a book review and I just finished re-reading this book yesterday and thought… Continue Reading →
I decided that it might be interesting to profile some of the people who have been awarded the highest medal for bravery their country gives. I will start with Sgt. Luke O’Connor of the British Army who was the… Continue Reading →
The feudal system’s origins can be traced back to late Roman imperial practices of land tenure. The biggest difference between feudal and late Roman practices is the feudal system contained a military obligation in return for holding land. … Continue Reading →
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