Since World War II the main American airbase in the Pacific was on the island of Guam. This has turned Guam into a vulnerable target for long range Chinese ballistic missiles. Guam is still important, ...

The Ephemeral Habsburg Empire in Mexico. In 1869, artist Édouard Manet finished his painting of The Execution of Emperor Maximilian, depicting the death, by firing squad, of Maxi ...

Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. xx, 418. Illus., appends, notes, index. $29.99 paper. ISBN: 1108794165 All Things Churchill Edited by Allen Packwood, the Director of the ...

American political and military leaders agree that European NATO countries should spend more for their own defense. To encourage that the Americans plan to remove U.S. forces from Europe and tell the ...

Iraq has been at war since 2003, when troops from the U.S. and Britain invaded to oust dictator Saddam Hussein. The invasion succeeded in less than 40 days, but resistance from irregulars and Islamic ...

During the hard winter of 1786-1787, some small holders in rural far western Massachusetts became so disaffected with the state government that they staged an impromptu insurrection, known to history ...

Key: On this table, figures originally given in various local coinages have all been converted to livres tournais, worth about £4 sterling; s, shilling, of which there were 12 to the pound; d, penny, ...

King Frederick Wilhelm I of Prussia (reigned, 1713-1740), the father of Frederick the Great, was an avid soldier. Indeed, from the time he ascended the throne until his death he rarely was seen out of ...

Oliver Wiswell is a novel by Kenneth Roberts. Roberts (1885-1957), who had served as an intelligence officer during World War I, rising to captain (which earned him a plot in Arlington), was for many ...

North Korean use of EMP against the south would incur retaliation from the United States, which has been an ally since 1946. Most major industrialized nations can, and some have, built EMP weapons.