Napoleon is recognized as a military genius. Hitler probably thought of himself as his equal. In any analysis of World War II military campaigns, especially the Russian campaign, Hitler receives blame for many of the German military reverses. Hitler was always interjecting himself into the strategic planning, often overruling the advice of his senior military […]
Today marks the two-hundred fourth anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo. On June 18, 1815, on the fields near Waterloo in central Belgium, 72,000 French troops, led by Napoleon, suffered a crushing military defeat from a combined Allied army of 113,000 British, Dutch, Belgian, and Prussian troops. Thus ended 23 years of almost constant warfare […]
When we consider the life of a notable man or woman we often fail to consider the role of energy in his or her accomplishments. Some individuals have an overabundance of that life force that we call energy. Others are deficient. I am painfully aware of these energy differences. I was married to a supercharged […]
We have been engaged in military operations in Afghanistan for seventeen years. Sometimes it appears that the war will go on forever. If our leaders had been keen students of history, perhaps this could have been avoided. The Romans conquered most of Great Britain in the 1st century, A.D. Caledonia was that part of northern […]
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