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Over the next few weeks, we will be updating the website, changing the homepage and other pieces of content and how it is served. Your patience is greatly appreciated as we conduct and implement these changes. Don't worry! Nothing is going away, we're just making things easier for you to find them and making it easier to add new content in the future. We have some exciting new things lined up for everyone and we can't wait to share them with you. Stay tuned!
  • A Spiritual Connection: (Part I) The Birth of the Flying Wing

    Modern design in many things often finds itself borrowing on old, tried, and true concepts. It’s no surprise either. After all, throughout history we find many instances where modern technology, strategy, design, and concepts can be traced and originated on something that already exists. Imagine, if you will, not reinventing

  • Birds of Prey: Lethality in the Skies

    It’s a typical pattern of evolution.  Each generation recognizes something that was absurd or incredible in the past as ordinary in the present.  As time passes, evolution takes hold again, and we are left in awe of something new and truly amazing once again.  Mankind is full of such advancements

  • Reaching for the Heavens: The Legendary Blackbird

    Everyone is familiar with the concept of cause and effect.  For every action, there is a reaction of the same or lesser magnitude.  Sometimes the resulting reaction is just the first in a chain of events that leads up to something else.  A chain reaction, that’s what one might call

  • Front Line Atomic Deployment: The Madness of Cold War Military Doctrine

    The Cold War exhibited some the greatest inventions that mankind had to offer and provided the springboard that propelled technology and innovation ultimately to where we find ourselves today. The Atomic Age, confined within the Cold War era, not only embodied the advancement of nuclear technology, but it also included

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    The U.S. Army as an Expeditionary Force

    The development of the U.S. Army into a formidable expeditionary force reflects the challenges and adaptations it encountered during key conflicts from 1846 to 1898. The Mexican-American War, the American Civil War, and the Spanish-American War collectively tested the Army’s ability to extend its reach into new territories and manage

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    Mounds of Civilization: Cahokia

    The term “mound builder” collectively refers to an indigenous people who used earthen mounds for a various assortment of purposes.  In some instances, mounds were used as mass graves, or single graves for important or divine individuals.  In other instances, they were used for ceremonial purposes.  The mounds, in many

  • Resolving Horror: Resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis

    “We [are] facing a great trouble.” These were the words purportedly spoken by President John F. Kennedy to his brother, Robert F. Kennedy on the morning of Tuesday, 16 OCT 1962. It has widely been popularized as the closest the world had ever been to destruction, or as Arthur Schlesigner,

  • Artificial Intelligence in the History Profession

    Over the last couple of years, artificial intelligence (AI) has seen an uptick in coverage in the media.  Ranging from helpful things like extrapolating information from expansive articles and providing valuable step-off points for writing prompts, to more malicious uses such as art theft and deep fakes, AI is sadly

  • Misunderstanding the End of the World: The Dresden Codex

    Discovered sometime in the sixteenth or seventeenth century, the Dresden Codex is the oldest known book to have survived in the Americas. Dating to the thirteenth century, the Codex is the center of many modern stories and folklore. Mayan in origin, this text was one of several texts that were

  • Surpassing OVERLORD: Logistics & Operation DOWNFALL

    In June 1944, all eyes were on Europe as the Allies executed one of the most brilliant landings in France, signaling the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany. However, the end of the war was far from certain in the Pacific. By 1945, preparations had begun for an operation

  • Weapon Systems Laboratories & Rodman Labs

    The Cold War was fraught with wonder, ingenuity, and a certain sense of mysterious danger as the two superpowers entered a stalemate of weapon development competition and stockpiling. Advancement in nuclear power, propulsion systems, and so much more led its development to the Cold War. It was within this period

  • Field Support & Prepositioned Stocks: An Enduring Legacy

    In 1996, the Army War Reserve Support Command (AWRSPTCMD) was created under the Industrial Operations Command (IOC). The primary mission of the AWRSPTCMD was to unify the field support and reserve components controlled by IOC under a single command structure. This gave control of the Combat Equipment Groups (CEGs) to

  • A Revolution of Military Logistics

    The modern incarnation of Army War Reserves (AWR) traces its history to the former Army War Reserve Support Command (AWRSPTCMD). More than just a jumbling of letters in an acronym, the AWRSPTCMD is the forerunner to one of the current core missions of the modern Army Sustainment Command (ASC). AWRSPTCMD

  • Before a Revolution in Military Logistics: The Gulf War

    In the days leading up to February of 1991, the U.S. military was posturing itself with Allies in the Persian Gulf to sustain and support a peacekeeping operation and the liberation of Kuwait. By 8 AUG 1990, U.S. forces were already in the region ready to offload materiel into ports

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Historical articles that reach across time from the days of Nero to the COVID-19 Global Pandemic, history is a perpetual state of reality.

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Winter 2023 Update

On: 22 November 2023

Hello everyone, As we press into 2024, I want to thank all our visitors who have contributed to another successful year in learning and promoting education.  History is a fickle thing that is always changing, and that is always a struggle – but much of the intrigue.  With the transition into 2024, I am (or rather, I have been for the last six months) moving away from a single poster for this site.  So, you’ll probably see fewer instances where it’s simple “I” or “me” talking, and more of “we” or “us.”  Of course, there will still be opinion pieces

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2019-06-30

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History is a Symphony of Different Melodies

History is a crucial pillar to the foundation of life as we see it, know it, and experience it today and every day. It touches everything we do, have done, and will do. It is in every person and surrounds every event. It is a sequence of different melodies that can sound chaotic, but here we synthesize this into a symphony. A symphony of different melodies.

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