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Historical Conflicts
Major wars and peace settlements that frame today’s security environment.
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81 Years Later, General Anthony McAuliffe’s 1-Word Reply to a German Surrender Demand Is Still the Greatest Rebuttal in US Army History
3+ hour, 6+ min ago (368+ words) Brig. Gen. Anthony McAuliffe, acting commander of the 101st Airborne at Bastogne, replied “Nuts!” on December 22, 1944, when Panzer Lehr demanded the town’s surrender....
‘We’re all carrying this war on our backs’: Elite Paratroopers unit marks 70 years
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The Forgotten War: Things Could’ve Looked Very Different theCHIVE
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US Military Quote of the Week by US Army General George S. Patton: “Nobody ever defended anything successfully; there is only attack and attack and attack some more.”
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (482+ words) George Patton led Renault FT tanks at Saint-Mihiel and was shot in the thigh at Cheppy on September 26, 1918. In December 1944 he turned the Third Army north; the 4th Armored Division reached Bastogne on December 26....
US Army Quote of the Day by US Army General Dwight D. Eisenhower: “I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.”
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (429+ words) In 1942 Dwight D. Eisenhower led Operation Torch in French North Africa. Two years later he commanded Operation Overlord, the June 6, 1944 invasion of France, with Patton and Bradley under him....
Decades Later, General George Patton’s Best US Army Line On Courage Is Still the Greatest Military Quote in Armed Forces History
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (394+ words) At Verdun, Patton told Eisenhower the Third Army could attack north in 48 hours. On December 26, 1944, Creighton Abrams’s 4th Armored opened a corridor into Bastogne....
Dograi: The Night Courage Crossed the Canal
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (728+ words) Wars are eventually reduced to maps, ceasefire lines, captured territory and official communiqués. Yet some battles refuse to remain confined to military history. They become something larger — a measure of leadership, courage and the extraordinary things ordinary soldiers can accomplish…...
US recovers over 120 previously unknown WWII POW statements
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (642+ words) Approximately 300 pages of World War II American Prisoner of War (POW) interrogation reports and ancillary reports were recovered by the US’s National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) earlier this summer. The documents were discovered by Waterloo resident Jason Hurdle inside…...
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency hosts the 2026 Scientific Summit > Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency > Our Stories
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (427+ words) By Staff Sgt. Kathy Duran Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Public Affairs The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency hosted the fifth Scientific Summit at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Aug. 31 to Sept. 4, 2026. Following last year’s European summit in Milan, Italy,…...
Centuries Later, Napoleon Bonaparte's Line on Death Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes In all of Armed Forces History
2+ day, 54+ min ago (445+ words) Napoleon sailed from Elba on February 26, 1815 with 1,000 men. On March 7 he walked up to the troops sent to arrest him and invited them to shoot their emperor....