During the 2008 presidential election, Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, then the Governor of Alaska, drew derisive smiles from many when she asserted that Russia could be seen from an island in her home state. While Governor Palin’s sense of the geopolitical tensions between the two countries may have lacked depth, her geographical assertion …
B-29 “Kee Bird”: From Spy Plane to Polar Bear Playground Read More »
The year 1967 was the Summer of Love in the United States, but while young people, hippies, peace activists and flower children flocked to Haight-Asbury, San Francisco to revel in counterculture music and pharmaceutical enhancements, the summer of ’67 in the Middle East wasn’t flashing the peace sign.. The Six-Day War, a cataclysmic milestone in …
The Israeli Attack on the USS Liberty on June 8, 1964 Read More »
Joseph John Rochefort, the man whose decoding of the Japanese codebook led to the American victory at the Battle of Midway, had enemies other than the Empire of Japan. His feats at cryptanalysis were phenomenal, but not universally appreciated, particularly by the codebreakers in Washington, D.C. Naval jealousy and internal machinations would rob Joseph Rochefort …
Joseph Rochefort – The Forgotten Hero of the Battle of Midway Read More »
The underground war of Vietnam had a subterranean aspect reaching far beyond the awareness of the American military brass conducting the war. From the beginning, the Viet Cong knew that they didn’t have the means to defeat the United States. But they also knew that, even if they couldn’t win by conventional means, they could …
Legend claims that Cyprus was the home of Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, and it could be said that, throughout its history, a succession of amorous empires including the Assyrians, the Persians, the Egyptians, and the Romans lusted after the Mediterranean jewel. However, by 1570, the Ottoman Empire, more familiar to us as Turkey, …
Operation Antila – The Turkish Invasion of Cyprus in 1974 Read More »
First Ladies of the United States are obliged to serve in a unique, often confining role which finds them performing duties that they likely did not expect to fulfill when they married their husbands. Marriage to a president puts the First Lady in the spotlight whether she wants to be there or not. Sometimes, the …
If the hallowed ground of Arlington National Cemetery could reveal its secrets, it would tell tales of heroism and tragedy that would make American hearts break even as they swelled with pride. Perhaps no tale is more heart-wrenching than that of Ira Hayes, the World War II hero of Iwo Jima. The Pima Indian was …
Historians love to play “what if” with the people and places that populate the events that shape our destinies. So, according to writer and journalist Robert Harris, did Adolf Hitler. Of course, in Hitler’s case, the pondering on would have happened had he attacked France in September 1938 was not an abstract conundrum. As the …
Victory, Not Appeasement: Chamberlain and Hitler, Munich, 1938 Read More »
Since November of 1860, when he was elected president of a nation that was teetering on the brink of fatal division, the Christmas season had betokened very little of peace on earth and good will toward men for Abraham Lincoln. On December 20, 1860, recognizing that the election of Lincoln meant that the differences between …
Francis Scott Key didn’t plan to be stuck at Fort McHenry during a battle between the United States and its British foe. He had gone aboard the British fleet’s flagship to try to coax the British to release a friend who had been arrested and his efforts were successful. But—and it’s a big but, upon …
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