Gerald M. Carbone’s sole emphasis in Washington: Lessons in Leadership is the performance of George Washington as a senior military leader. He provides readers with a balanced portrayal.

The U.S. Navy Memorial in Washington, DC, will host a special film screening and panel discussion honoring the United States Navy’s first African-American Naval Aviator, Jesse L. Brown, on July 28, 2011.

When artist Charles St. George Stanley found himself in the midst of the 1876 fight at Tongue River Heights, Wyoming, ‘away went all my grand ideas of bravery, and the humiliation of the situation burst upon me in all its vividness.’

Churchill’s War Lab raises expectations it doesn’t fulfill, but it presents a focused overview of Churchill and military technology, which has not been done by other Churchill biographies.

Historians have often criticized Confederate Major General Henry Heth’s decisions that brought on the battle of Gettysburg, but encounters with Pennsylvania’s hastily assembled ‘emergency militia’ may have been behind Heth’s actions.

Author John Sutherland examines the strategies needed to defeat sacred causes by looking at examples including the Battles for Sudan, Jewish-Roman Wars and Wars against Napoleon.

Historian and Armchair General Advisory Board member Carlo D’Este is set to receive the 2011 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for lifetime achievement.

America’s best-known WWI flying ace, Eddie Rickenbacher, called Lt. Frank Luke, Jr., “the most daring aviator and greatest fighter pilot of the entire war.”

You choose from three courses of action or create your own in this command decision game based on Maj. Robert Rogers’ Rangers raid on the Abenaki Indian tribe’s village at St. Francis above Lake Champlain in 1759.

Letters from Armchair General readers, Issue 45 (July 2011), ask about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and challenge a statement made in an earlier issue about Oliver Cromwell’s attitude toward Catholics.

Reactions to news that Osama Bin Laden has been killed.

In 1941, Thailand’s Prime Minister Plaek Pibulsonggram – popularly called ‘Phibun’ – seized a chance to reclaim his country’s former provinces and attacked French Indochina.

Theodore ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt may have first used the term he popularized, ‘Walk softly and carry a big stick,’ in this letter written while he was governor of New York.

“Shadow of Shiloh” is a well-documented and long-overdue biography of Gen. Lew Wallace, focusing on whether or not his tardy arrival on the field at Shiloh deserves to hang over his reputation like a shadow.

Author Peter Suciu examines Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi and how he has maintained power for 40 years.

A ceremony at the Liberty Memorial, America’s National World War I Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, marked the passing of Frank Buckles, America’s last Great War veteran, and honored the memory of all World War I U.S. military personnel.