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World War II
Kelly Bell |
Costly Capture of Crete German air superiority eventually drove the Royal Navy from the waters off the Greek island, Crete, and ensured the success of a bloody airborne invasion.   |
World War II
May 25, 2004
Kevin R. Austra |
Desperate Hours on Omaha Beach As soldiers of the U.S. Army's 1st Infantry Division leaped from their landing craft into the choppy waters off Omaha Beach, many cursed the landing-craft pilots who had deposited them too far away from the invasion beach. |
World War II
May 25, 2004
David R. Jennys |
D-Day's Mighty Host A perilous airborne strike and the mightiest assemblage of seaborne power yet seen heralded the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany. |
World War II
June 8, 2004
David Fortuna |
The Bedford Boys On June 6, 1944, the tiny town of Bedford, Va., suffered a tragedy that would never be forgotten. |
Parameters
Summer 2006 |
Book Reviews Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis. By Jimmy Carter... State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century. By Francis Fukuyama... Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-1945. By Max Hastings... etc. |
Reason
March 2007
Glenn Garvin |
Fidel's Favorite Propagandist How a New York Times reporter's passion for Castro led him astray. Book Review: The Man Who Invented Fidel: Cuba, Castro, and Herbert L. Matthews of The New York Times, by Anthony DePalma. |
Car and Driver
August 2006
John Pearley Huffman |
Features Review: Sail to the U.S.A. in a Chevrolet How Luis Grass turned some very old Detroit iron into a seagoing escape vehicle. Twice. |
World War II
Sherwood S. Cordier |
Red Star vs. the Rising Sun The undeclared conflict between the Soviet Union and imperial Japan at Khalkhin Gol cast a long shadow on subsequent events in the Pacific theater and on the Russian Front. |
Smithsonian
August 2007
Jorge & Diana Rodriguez |
Book Excerpt: "On Cuban Wings" The rise and fall of Cuban aviation, as explored in "The Country Where Nobody Flies," is one of the most dramatic in the Americas. |
Salon.com
September 22, 2001
Ken Silverstein |
Blasts from the past The weaponry the Taliban could turn on us may be our own, the relics of a $7 billion Cold War campaign... |
Vietnam
June 28, 2004
Thomas E. Faley |
Operation Marauder: Allied Offensive in the Mekong Delta On New Year's Day 1966, with Australian and New Zealand combat forces attached, the 173rd Airborne Brigade struck VC positions in the Mekong Delta. |
National Defense
January 2006
Grace Jean |
Naval `Sea Base' Supporters Seek to Prove Worth to Army Navy officials have drawn up plans to deploy a floating military base capable of supporting two combat brigades by 2019. It is not yet clear, however, whether the sea base concept is based on solid analysis or whether its potential benefits justify the cost. |
Salon.com
February 6, 2002
Damien Cave |
Tourism apartheid in Cuba Many of the island nation's most beautiful areas are off limits to its citizens. Will Fidel's tourist policy be his undoing? |
America's Civil War
January 12, 2005
Michael C. Hardy |
April 2, 1865: 'A Day of Carnage and Blood' Sixth Corps Yankees stumbled out of their earthworks and toward the muddy pits of the Army of Northern Virginia. It was the beginning of the end. |
America's Civil War
James B. Ronan II |
Union Regulars Brigade Desperate Stand at Chickamauga Civil War Brigadier General John King's disciplined brigade of Union Regulars found itself tested as never before at Chickamauga. For two bloody days, the Regulars dashed from one endangered spot to another, seeking to save their army from annihilation. |
America's Civil War
Todd S. Berkoff |
Bloody Baptism for the Black Hats John Gibbon's mostly green Midwestern troops found themselves in quite a scrape as the sun set on August 28, 1862. His Black Hat Brigade would never forget their baptism of fire at Brawner's Farm. |
Popular Mechanics
December 17, 2008
Joe Pappalardo |
Russian Warships Visit Cuba In the last leg of a diplomatic mission throughout Latin America, a humble group of Russian warships visit Cuba for the first time since the end of the Cold War. |
BusinessWeek
February 29, 2008
Geri Smith |
When Will Cuba Be Open for Business? It's unclear whether a new U.S. President would lift the 45-year trade embargo, but public opinion favors improved relations between the countries. |
Reason
April 2008
Michael C. Moynihan |
Shoot Down Over Cuba A bold documentary takes Castro to task for senseless murders. |
Reason
June 2002
Matt Welch |
Foul Ball How a communist dictatorship and a U.S. embargo has silenced a revered Cuban baseball historian... |
Salon.com
June 28, 2000
Max J. Castro |
After Hurricane Elian Miami is a city asunder, divided by race, but the Cuban exiles' stranglehold on local and national power has unmistakably eased. |
Mother Jones
Jan/Feb 2002
Ted Gup |
Clueless in Langley For two decades, the CIA has been making excuses for why it has failed to tackle terrorism. Can a spy agency rooted in the Cold War adapt to a changed world? |
BusinessWeek
August 14, 2006
Frederik Balfour |
Cuba: Visit To An Island Frozen In Time One reporter finds scant evidence that Cuba is poised for change after Castro. |
Salon.com
December 25, 2000
Michael Sragow |
"Thirteen Days" This showdown on the nuclear frontier isn't a movie about the U.S. vs. Cuba and the Soviets -- it's about the Kennedys vs. a vast old-man conspiracy. |
Teacher Magazine
August 2000
Jennifer Pricola |
Rolando's Return While the rest of the world debated the fate of Elian Gonzalez in late June, students at St. Paul's Academy in St. Paul, Minnesota, wondered whether a less famous native Cuban would be allowed back on the island---their Spanish teacher, Rolando Castellanos. |
Wired
December 2004
Douglas Starr |
The Cuban Biotech Revolution Embargo or no, Castro's socialist paradise has quietly become a pharmaceutical powerhouse. (They're still working on the capitalism thing.) |
Civil War Times
John F. McCormack, Jr. |
Never Were Men So Brave Their casualties were enormous but their courage and capacity for fun were legendary. General Lee himself gave highest praise to these Yankees of the Irish Brigade. |
Reason
February 2002
Sam MacDonald |
Cuban Confusion How well has the decades-old U.S. embargo of Cuba worked? The official story is that the 39-year-old time-out imposed on our island neighbor to the south of Florida has successfully isolated Fidel Castro and friends from the rest of the world. Cuban officials are all too happy to agree... |
Reason
August 2003
Damien Cave |
Havana Hustle Cuba's New Socialist Man learns to wheel and deal |
Reason
May 2008
Brian Doherty |
Artifact: Castro Shrugged The Bush administration's reluctance to change its ill-conceived embargo against Cuba, even post-Fidel, shows that Castro isn't alone in misunderstanding "the essence of this new world" or the role of relatively unrestricted international trade in spreading wealth and liberty. |
America's Civil War
September 2006
Gerald J. Smith |
44th Georgia Regiment Volunteers in the American Civil War The hard-fighting 44th Georgia suffered some of the heaviest losses of any regiment in the Civil War. |
Salon.com
October 10, 2001
David Lipschultz |
Havana online In Cuba, black market Internet access makes it easier for prostitutes to get connected than doctors... |
Salon.com
January 26, 2001
Charles Taylor |
"Before Night Falls" Julian Schnabel's tale of a gay Cuban poet smolders with vivid sensuality. Plus: Johnny Depp in drag... |
National Defense
May 2006
Grace Jean |
Army Strives for Training That Resembles Combat Combat rehearsals that replicate conditions in Iraq provide valuable training for troops who have yet to experience the real war. |
Salon.com
January 25, 2001
Carina Chocano |
The people's Cuba Thierry Le Goues' new collection of photos, "Popular," reveals Castro's lush and decaying secret... |
Salon.com
January 15, 2002
Laura Miller |
I was a cowboy for the CIA In a new memoir, tough-guy ex-field agent Robert Baer blasts wimpy pencil pushers and "politics" for keeping him from lassoing terrorist evildoers. He's right -- but you wouldn't want his kind in charge, either... |
