Robert Fulton is best known for the first commercially successful steamboats plying the Hudson River. However, he did considerable work inventing and developing weapons of naval warfare: workable submarines, underwater […]
In April 1960 the US Navy launched the first experimental navigation satellite. This highly classified and cutting-edge technology found in the TRANSIT satellites were designed to provide the Navy’s submarines […]
This lecture will begin with the genesis of the shipboard combat information center (CIC) in World War II from the Guadalcanal campaign (1942) up through that at Okinawa (1945). From […]
China’s War with Japan began in 1937 with the Marco Polo Bridge Incident near Beijing. While diplomatic and economic means were used to support the Chinese for several years, it […]
The Vietnam War was not just America’s first televised war, it was the nation’s first computerized war. The conflict’s hybrid character created a fragmented battlespace that was defined by a […]
In 1700, the French army adopted the musket with attached socket bayonet, but it took over a century for it to master the new art of war that the technology […]
The tank was one of the most iconic weapons of the 20th century. While it was a dominate weapon on the battlefields of Europe and the Middle East from World War […]
The integration of the U.S. Armed Forces signifies one of the many adaptations the U.S. military conducted during the Second World War when it came to combat power and reconstitution. […]
Desert Storm in January-February 1991 is known for its dazzling display of technological brilliance, forecasting a so-called revolution in military affairs that promised the United States a cheap alternative to […]
Dr. Geoff Babb from the Department of Military History at the US Army Command and General Staff College will discuss Ancient Chinese War with an emphasis on the thirteen chapters […]
Warfare in the European Middle Ages (c. 500-1500) can be broadly characterized as limited: limited objectives, limited budgets, and limited size of armies. Despite medieval society having an overall martial […]
The Maginot Line has assumed a mythical status as the height of French interwar doctrinal stagnation. The reality, however, is that the Maginot Line represented a potential solution to the […]
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