OPERATION CATAPULT, Winston Churchill’s plan to deny French naval vessels to the Germans, resulted in 1,300 French deaths at Mers-el-Kebir.

King David Aghmashenebeli. Courtesy Alex Mikaberidze.

Forgotten Battle in the Kingdom of Georgia during the Age of the Crusades

We will rather die on the battlefield than run.

Contemplating the Age of Crusades, images of the sacked Jerusalem, exploits of …

HMS Dreadnought underway in 1906. Courtesy U.S. Naval Historical Center.

One of the great tipping points in world history occurred around 1500 when the “full-rigged” sailing ship—armed with cannons, propelled by banks of sails, and capable of surmounting oceanic storms—arose …

In recognition of the 40th anniversary of the 1968 Tet Offensive, publisher ABC-CLIO is featuring essays on this watershed event during the Vietnam War.

To accompany the latest issue of ACG, we provide some additional information on three Panzers found in Norway – that fought at the battle of Kursk!

Millions paid the ultimate price, both in Flanders and elsewhere on the Western Front, for the failure of pre-1914 European diplomacy.

World War I, though sometimes thought of solely as a long, protracted struggle between monstrous armies sitting in trenches, was more than simply a huge slug-fest in Europe.

And now the Torch and Poppy Red
We wear in honor of our dead.

The wars between the Chinese Sui Dynasty and the Korean kingdom of Goguryeo were some of the greatest conflicts of their time.

As in all desperate situations, the courage and tenacity of the human will was demonstrated time and again.

While many students of history are able to recall Jackson’s major accomplishments at places like First Bull Run, Second Bull Run, Antietam and Fredericksburg, perhaps it is time to recognize where much of his legend began.

It fell to a clandestine operation created by America’s OSS, code-named Detachment 101, to begin the long struggle to regain Burma.

At the beginning of September 1944, the German forces were reeling from the Allied onslaught. An orderly retreat had turned into chaos.

We take an insider’s look at the weapon that ended the mounted knight’s reign!

Explore the Commander Dossier for Henry V – England’s “fighting king” and a master of medieval warfare.

As a special bonus to complement the articles in our magazine and to expand our coverage of the Vietnam War, we present Frederick Lash’s compelling account of the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) Easter Offensive.