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When president Woodrow Wilson spoke in Topeka on February 2, 1916, in favor of a stronger military, he faced skepticism and outright opposition from many Kansas residents—including Governor Arthur Ca …

In World War I, the Italian Regia Marina, employed the first rudimentary assault craft in the Adriatic, achieving flattering successes. The experiences gained were then enhanced from 1935 onward when …

Navy Captain Jim Shepherd spearheads a pilot program to fight terrorism on a global front through a black-on-black operation paradigm. Enemies are not just foreign nationals but men and women in thei …

Painting rich portraits of imperial conquest, diplomatic intrigue, and battlefield genius, Sir Edward Creasy’s Fifteen Decisive Battles of the Western World captured the imagination of readers in Vi …

John Logan was an unattached volunteer at Bull Run, later organizing the 31st Illinois Volunteers. Published in 1887, this is a sweeping historical tribute to citizen-soldiers, from Lexington to Appo …

In 1849, the author enlisted as a private in the First U.S. Dragoons B Troop, assigned to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. This 1906 military memoir by an enlisted solider tells of forts, canal boats, mule …

Posthumously published in 1904, here is the first systematic history of the American military—one which enormously influenced how the Army trained and deployed troops. Taking lessons from the Revolut …

This 1901 volume provides an exciting and comprehensive overview of British sea power from the days of the Spanish galleons to the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812.  Along the way, Laughton f …

A study of the role played by the cavalry in one of history’s greatest battles, Cavalry in the Waterloo Campaign endeavors to show when, and under what conditions, cavalry attacks succeeded or failed …

4GW (Fourth Generation Warfare) is the only kind of war America has ever lost. And we have done so three times – in Vietnam, Lebanon, and Somalia. This form of warfare has also defeated the French in …