Allies

To any Hmong and Montagnard war veterans reading this article, thank you and God bless you for your service and sacrifice. April 2025 will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the Vietnam...

America—and her allies—keep running out of munitions to prosecute wars and change outcomes. Ukraine’s scale of casualties and ammo consumption to beat back Russia is causing U.S. commanders to call for a fundamental re-think...

Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from historian James Holland’s latest book, The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943 (Atlantic Monthly Press 2023), reprinted with the permission of...

A new era of great power rivalry has returned to the center of the global stage. The defining question is whether a U.S.-China war is inevitable. Whether this great power...

To date, the formula for the United States’ strategic interaction with most allies has been fairly direct:  It revolved around the idea that allies need to defend themselves from attack...

Here’s What You Need to Know: These big guns were not to be trifled with. During the Second World War, it wasn’t just the aircraft that delivered devastating blows to the...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The boat’s usefulness could not be overstated. It just might be the most recognized boat of the Second World War. The Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel,...

Wednesdays can be a rough part of any week, but Wednesday, December 10, 1941 was arguably one of the darkest days for the Allies in the Second World War. Just...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: For Britain’s sake, it’s probably a good thing that the assessors never gave the P.24 a fighting chance. Early in the war, the Polish plane...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The concept began in the First World War. The concept of a “squad automatic weapon” was not new to the Second World War, and was...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: A more dispersed, multi-domain force able to successfully network with allies can exponentially increase the size and speed of its striking power. Longer ranges can also help...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Nazi Germany could have developed nuclear weapons if it had won the war. It could not develop them as war-winning weapons, both because of the...