Edward ‘Mick’ Mannock: World War I RAF Ace Pilot
RAF flight leader Edward ‘Mick’ Mannock devoted his meteoric combat career to teaching squadron mates how to survive in the Western Front’s deadly skies.

General George S. Patton and the Battle of the Bulge
Germans planning the Ardennes offensive counted on surprise and a slow American response, but that was not George S. Patton’s style.

Interview with Harold E. Fischer: Korean War Jet Ace and POW
Colonel Harold Fischer survived two years in a Chinese prison camp after getting shot down over Manchuria.

Battle of Khe Sanh: Recounting the Battle's Casualties
A Marine veteran of the war's longest battle searches for the truth beyond the official numbers.

CIA's Secret War in Tibet
In a top secret and still little-known, decade-long 'war at the top of the world,' the CIA fostered, trained and supplied a tenacious Tibetian resistance force in its struggle against the Communist Chinese.

Mexican Expedition: 1st Aero Squadron in Pursuit of Pancho Villa
Taking part in Brig. Gen. John J. Pershing's 1916 Mexican expedition was a learning experience for the U.S. Army's first air arm -- mainly in regard to its own deficiencies.

Congo Crisis: Operation Dragon Rouge
Far from any hope of rescue, the hostages in Stanleyville were suddenly awakened by sounds of battle and chilling cries from their Simba captors: "Your brothers have some from the sky! Now you will be killed!"

Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw
Commanding 160,000 troops, Mikhail N. Tukhachevsky was said to be the Red Army's most brilliant general. If the newly resurrected Polish nation was to survive, Marshal Jozef Pilsudski would have to be even smarter.

Suez Crisis: Operation Musketeer
When Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal, Britain, France and Israel conspired to seize it by force. The result was a fleeting military victory--and a lasting political disaster.

Cold War: Bay of Pigs Invasion
As the Cuban T-33 jet strafed the insurgents on the beach, a U.S. carrier plane closed to shoot it down. "Don't fire! Don't fire!" cried the carrier's air controller. "Rules of engagement have been changed."

Blowup in Beirut: U.S. Marines Peacekeeping Mission Turns Deadly
In 1983, the deadly truck bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Lebanon shocked the nation. Today it looks like a harbinger of global terrorism.

Augustin-Leon Guillaume's Goums in a Modern War
Tribal Moroccan mountain fighters groomed for modern war by a tough French general played key roles in driving the Nazis from North Africa and liberating Sicily, Corsica, and Rome.

President Ronald Reagan: Winning the Cold War
With Operation Urgent Fury -- the invasion of Grenada -- two decades ago, Cold War history began a dramatic turn that would lead in less than a decade to the demise of an empire. Ronald Reagan's clarity of vision, tenacity and unwavering beliefs led to the dismantling of America's most formidable foe.