Tag: war

On the morning of July 7, 2005, bombs are detonated in three crowded London Underground stations and one bus during the peak of the...

Every country on earth has its stupid people. But a recent Rand study examining 160 countries concludes America now has the highest percentage of...

I am getting older and spend my time looking backwards at history. That is true history, not the history proposed by twenty somethings just out...

Who said the world is going to hell in a hand cart? Who ever it was, they're getting closer to the truth every day. War is...

I'm getting older , but I still remember times past...a time of monsters. Dictators like Joseph Stalin, Saddam Hussein, Colonel Gadalfi, Idi Amin and Adolf Hitler...

On January 13, 1842, a British army doctor reaches the British sentry post at Jalalabad, Afghanistan, the lone survivor of a 16,000-strong Anglo-Indian expeditionary...

On this day, Thailand, a Japanese puppet state, declares war on the Allies. When war broke out in Europe in September 1939, Thailand declared its...

During World War I, Britain suffers its first casualties from an air attack when two German Zeppelins drop bombs on the eastern coast of...

At 4:45 a.m., some 1.5 million German troops invade Poland all along its 1,750-mile border with German-controlled territory. Simultaneously, the German Luftwaffe bombed Polish...

On this day in 1945, an official announcement of Japan's unconditional surrender to the Allies is made public to the Japanese people. Even though Japan's...