History Forum / War History / War History / May 2007

The Arab members of the OPEC group retaliated against the military and
economic aid which the U.S.A. gave to Israel during the Yom Kippur War of
October 6 1973 - October 18 1973, by means of the military air-lift known as
Operation Nickelgrass, by placing an oil embargo against ...

The Wehrmacht was the most powerful army ever. Greatly
outnumbered by the allies, they managed to survive for
almost 6 years. The Nazi technology was superior and
SS soldiers are still feared today!

A recent thread on soc.history.what-if
reminded me of some questions I've had.
Joseph Kennedy (father of POTUS John, Bobby, Ted +)
was of Irish heritage, Roman Catholic, opposed to

I was wondering about the phrase "pick and choose your battles" and
how army captains would decide when to go into battle against another
army and when not to. I'm pretty sure one of the criteria was to
outnumber the opponent by a large margin, but were there other

I'm trying to find a transcript of MacArthur's speech to a joint
session of the Philippine Congress in 1954, when he warned about
global war.  I can't find a transcript anywhere--no matter how many
pages of search results I click on and read.  The most I've been able