Why did Napoleon Bonaparte want to sell the Louisiana territory? Why did Austria lose the Austro-Prussian War? Why did the French Revolution devolve into the Napoleonic Wars? Why did France win the Hundred Years' War? Why did Napoleon Bonaparte sell the land in the Louisiana Purchase?
Why did the Khmer civilization collapse? Why was Angkor Wat significant to the Khmer Empire? Why does America celebrate the Haitian Revolution? Why didn't the U.S. actively oppose the Iranian Revolution? Why did France want to reestablish control over Indochina? Why did the U.S. ultimately...
Dave Burns, a member of the U.S. Air Force’s 16 Special Operations Squadron, flew missions over Laos out of Ubon, Thailand. He recalls, “Sepon was the one place in Laos that we did not want to fly into. The village was at a crossroads of three highways leading in from Vietnam:...
Ike remained a humble man. Doubtless this humility stemmed from his upbringing, but so too did it come from his military service. As he himself wrote, “Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of...