Category: War Stories

Zachary Grant, 14 May 2025 Background This all boils down to a lot of groups unhappy with the powerful Venetians during the early 1500s. The …

Zachary Grant, 23 April 2025 By 1808, Napoleon was well on his way to cementing his control over much of Europe at the expense of …

Brant Guillory, 16 April 2025 It’s one thing to visit a battlefield, and another thing altogether to visit a giant monument to the losers of …

RockyMountainNavy, 26 March 2025 Historian Richard Hough, author of The Longest Battle: The War at Sea, 1939-45 (New York: Quill, 1986) writes, “The Battle of …

RockyMountainNavy, 19 March 2025 In his book A Sailors Odyssey, Lord Admiral Andrew Cunningham, who served as Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean for the Royal Navy during the …

RockyMountainNavy, 12 March 2025 One of the earliest wargames I owned was the classic Wooden Ships & Iron Men designed by S. Craig Taylor and …

RockyMountainNavy, 5 March 2025 The account of the Battle of the Bismarck Sea that appears in Helmut Pemsel’s A History of War at Sea is …

RockyMountainNavy, 26 February 2025 When it comes to the naval history of World War II the Battle of the Java Sea tends to either be …

Zachary Grant, 19 February 2025 This year we are honoring the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima. It just so happens this week’s …

RockyMountainNavy, 12 February 2025 In January 1951 the Korean War was six months old. The invasion of South Korea by North Korea (Democratic People’s Republic …