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This site expands on what we have been posting on Command Posts and covers not only military history, but a wider range of history from ancient times to the modern day. 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It appeared just prior to the publication of my book Blackhorse Riders: A Desperate Last Stand, an Extraordinary Rescue Mission, and the Vietnam Battle America Forgot, from St. Martin’s Press. My next book, Fire Base Illingworth, an Epic True Story [...]<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/2013/10/why-we-served-part-two/"> [More...]</a></dd> <dd class="social-media"> <div class="twitter"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-count="horizontal" data-via="CommandPosts" data-url="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/2013/10/why-we-served-part-two/" data-text="Just read Why We Served: Part Two by Phil Keith">Tweet</a><script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608js_/http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div> <div class="facebook"><iframe src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608if_/http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.commandposts.com%2F2013%2F10%2Fwhy-we-served-part-two%2F&layout=button_count&show_faces=false&width=90&action=like&colorscheme=light" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:110px; height:20px;"></iframe></div> <div class="google"><g:plusone size="medium" href="http://www.commandposts.com/2013/10/why-we-served-part-two/"></g:plusone></div> </dd>  </dl> <dl class="post-item"> <dt class="category-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/category/focus-on/" title="View all posts in Focus On" rel="category tag">Focus On</a></dt> <dd class="post-thumb"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/2013/10/six-things-you-may-not-have-known-about-nazis-in-america/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608im_/http://www.commandposts.com//wp-content/files_mf/swastikanationfeature.jpg?w=182&hash=5218e86574d701f3a6e3e7ff6d3934eb" alt="" title=""/></a></dd> <dt class="post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/2013/10/six-things-you-may-not-have-known-about-nazis-in-america/">Six Things You May Not Have Known about Nazis in America</a></dt> <dd class="meta">By: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/author/arnie-bernstein/" title="Posts by Arnie Bernstein">Arnie Bernstein</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/2013/10/">October</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/2013/10/07/">7</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/2013/">2013</a> <br/></dd> <dd class="the-excerpt">In the 1930s and 1940s (and beyond) fascism and Nazi loyalty was as American as a proverbial apple pie. Never mind Hitler and his Third Reich were held in political and moral disdain by the Roosevelt administration. There was a substantial counter culture of loyalists to Hitler and his throughout the United States during Depression [...]<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/2013/10/six-things-you-may-not-have-known-about-nazis-in-america/"> [More...]</a></dd> <dd class="social-media"> <div class="twitter"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-count="horizontal" data-via="CommandPosts" data-url="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/2013/10/six-things-you-may-not-have-known-about-nazis-in-america/" data-text="Just read Six Things You May Not Have Known about Nazis in America by Arnie Bernstein">Tweet</a><script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608js_/http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div> <div class="facebook"><iframe src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608if_/http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.commandposts.com%2F2013%2F10%2Fsix-things-you-may-not-have-known-about-nazis-in-america%2F&layout=button_count&show_faces=false&width=90&action=like&colorscheme=light" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:110px; height:20px;"></iframe></div> <div class="google"><g:plusone size="medium" href="http://www.commandposts.com/2013/10/six-things-you-may-not-have-known-about-nazis-in-america/"></g:plusone></div> </dd>  </dl> <dl class="post-item"> <dt class="category-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/category/focus-on/" title="View all posts in Focus On" rel="category tag">Focus On</a></dt> <dd class="post-thumb"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/2013/09/an-announcement-command-posts-is-expanding/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608im_/http://www.commandposts.com//wp-content/files_mf/23skidoo_fib96.jpg?w=182&hash=e5727e2b8bb5741f94da9d06616c0c9d" alt="Flatiron" title="Flatiron"/></a></dd> <dt class="post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/2013/09/an-announcement-command-posts-is-expanding/">An Announcement: Command Posts Is Expanding!</a></dt> <dd class="meta">By: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/author/michael-hoak/" title="Posts by Michael Hoak">Michael Hoak</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/2013/09/">September</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/2013/09/23/">23</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/2013/">2013</a> <br/></dd> <dd class="the-excerpt">As we announced in August, Command Posts is currently going through a transition. I have taken over as Editor-in-Chief of Command Posts. As a huge history buff , I’m very excited by the opportunity to oversee this expansion of Command Posts. We’ll continue providing original articles on military history as well as expanding to encompass [...]<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/2013/09/an-announcement-command-posts-is-expanding/"> [More...]</a></dd> <dd class="social-media"> <div class="twitter"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-count="horizontal" data-via="CommandPosts" data-url="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/2013/09/an-announcement-command-posts-is-expanding/" data-text="Just read An Announcement: Command Posts Is Expanding! by Michael Hoak">Tweet</a><script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608js_/http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div> <div class="facebook"><iframe src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608if_/http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.commandposts.com%2F2013%2F09%2Fan-announcement-command-posts-is-expanding%2F&layout=button_count&show_faces=false&width=90&action=like&colorscheme=light" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:110px; height:20px;"></iframe></div> <div class="google"><g:plusone size="medium" href="http://www.commandposts.com/2013/09/an-announcement-command-posts-is-expanding/"></g:plusone></div> </dd>  </dl> <dl class="post-item"> <dt class="category-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/category/focus-on/" title="View all posts in Focus On" rel="category tag">Focus On</a></dt> <dd class="post-thumb"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/2013/08/the-ghosts-of-bungo-suido/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608im_/http://www.commandposts.com//wp-content/files_mf/ghostsofbungosuido57.jpg?w=182&hash=8026aa16a7c0beaf4a3ab101c35938ad" alt="" title="Ghosts of Bungo Suido"/></a></dd> <dt class="post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/2013/08/the-ghosts-of-bungo-suido/">The Ghosts of Bungo Suido</a></dt> <dd class="meta">By: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/author/p-t-deutermann/" title="Posts by P.T. Deutermann">P.T. Deutermann</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/2013/08/">August</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/2013/08/02/">2</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/2013/">2013</a> <br/>Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/tag/fiction/" rel="tag">fiction</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/tag/ghosts-of-bungo-suido/" rel="tag">Ghosts of Bungo Suido</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/tag/p-t-deutermann-2/" rel="tag">P. T. 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Even better, he wasn’t echo ranging.<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/2013/08/the-ghosts-of-bungo-suido/"> [More...]</a></dd> <dd class="social-media"> <div class="twitter"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-count="horizontal" data-via="CommandPosts" data-url="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/2013/08/the-ghosts-of-bungo-suido/" data-text="Just read The Ghosts of Bungo Suido by P.T. 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Image credit: U.S. Army."/></a></dd> <dt class="post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/2013/07/audie-murphy-i-will-learn-to-work-in-peace-as-in-war-i-will-learn-to-live-again/">Audie Murphy: “I will learn to work in peace as in war. . . . I will learn to live again.”</a></dt> <dd class="meta">By: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/author/audie-murphy/" title="Posts by Audie Murphy">Audie Murphy</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/2013/07/">July</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/2013/07/31/">31</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/2013/">2013</a> <br/>Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/tag/wwii/" rel="tag">WWII</a></dd> <dd class="the-excerpt"><p>Like a horror film run backwards, images of the war flicker through my brain. The tank in the snow with smoldering bodies on top. The smell of burning flesh. Of rotting flesh too. Novak rotting in a grave on Anzio. Horse-Face. Knowed an old girl once. The girl, red-eyed and shivering, in the Naples dawn. And Kerrigan. Kerrigan shuffling cards with half a hand. He was far luckier than Antonio. Yes, Antonio, trying to stand on the stumps of his legs with the machine gun ripping his body. And Brandon dead under the cork tree. Deer daddy, I'm in school. “I’ll never enter another schoolroom," says Elleridge.<p/> <p>He was right. It is as though a fire had roared through this human house, leaving only the charred hulk of something that once was green.<p/> <p>Within a couple of hours, I have had enough. I return to my room. But I cannot sleep. My mind still whirls. When I was a child, I was told that men were branded by war. Has the brand been put on me? Have the years of blood and ruin stripped me of all decency? Of all belief?<p/> <p>Not of all belief. I believe in the force of a hand grenade, the power of artillery, the accuracy of a Garand. I believe in hitting before you get hit, and that dead men do not look noble.<p/> <p>But I also believe in men like Brandon and Novak and Swope and Kerrigan; and all the men who stood up against the enemy, taking their beatings without whimper and their triumphs without boasting. The men who went and would go again to hell and back to preserve what our country thinks right and decent.<p/><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/2013/07/audie-murphy-i-will-learn-to-work-in-peace-as-in-war-i-will-learn-to-live-again/"> [More...]</a></dd> <dd class="social-media"> <div class="twitter"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-count="horizontal" data-via="CommandPosts" data-url="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/2013/07/audie-murphy-i-will-learn-to-work-in-peace-as-in-war-i-will-learn-to-live-again/" data-text="Just read Audie Murphy: “I will learn to work in peace as in war. . . . 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This was a tentative, awkward piece of work, a cultural tragedy staged as comic opera. It was not a military operation, but without the landing of American troops, it probably would not have succeeded. The president of the United States approved of it, but soon after it happened, a new president took office and denounced it. Americans were already divided over whether it is a good idea to depose foreign regimes.<p/> <p>The overthrow of Hawaii's queen reignited a political debate that had first flared during the Mexican War half a century before. That debate, which in essence is about what role the United States should play in the world, rages to this day. It burst back onto the front pages after the invasion of Iraq.<p/><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/2013/07/overthrow-americas-century-of-regime-change/"> [More...]</a></dd> <dd class="social-media"> <div class="twitter"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-count="horizontal" data-via="CommandPosts" data-url="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/2013/07/overthrow-americas-century-of-regime-change/" data-text="Just read Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change by Stephen Kinzer">Tweet</a><script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608js_/http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div> <div class="facebook"><iframe src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608if_/http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.commandposts.com%2F2013%2F07%2Foverthrow-americas-century-of-regime-change%2F&layout=button_count&show_faces=false&width=90&action=like&colorscheme=light" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:110px; height:20px;"></iframe></div> <div class="google"><g:plusone size="medium" href="http://www.commandposts.com/2013/07/overthrow-americas-century-of-regime-change/"></g:plusone></div> </dd>  </dl> <dl class="post-item"> <dt class="category-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/category/focus-on/" title="View all posts in Focus On">Focus On</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/category/focus-on/fiction-fridays/" title="View all posts in Fiction Fridays" rel="category tag">Fiction Fridays</a></dt> <dd class="post-thumb"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/2013/07/the-eleventh-commandment/"><img src="/web/20150129011608im_/http://www.commandposts.com/category/focus-on/" alt="" title=""/></a></dd> <dt class="post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/2013/07/the-eleventh-commandment/">The Eleventh Commandment</a></dt> <dd class="meta">By: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/author/jeffrey-archer/" title="Posts by Jeffrey Archer">Jeffrey Archer</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/2013/07/">July</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/2013/07/26/">26</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/2013/">2013</a> <br/></dd> <dd class="the-excerpt"><p>Connor Fitzgerald has an impressive resume. Military hero. Devoted family man. Servant of his country—as an assassin. Just as he’s about to put his twenty-eight-year career at the CIA behind him, he comes up against the most dangerous enemy he’s ever faced: His own boss, Helen Dexter.<p/> <p>As Director of the CIA, Dexter has always been the one to hold the strings. But when her status is threatened by a greater power, her only hope for survival is to destroy Fitzgerald. Meanwhile, the country braces itself as tensions with a new Russian leader reach the boiling point…and it’s up to Fitzgerald to pull off his most daring mission yet: To save the world. Even if that means risking everything—including his own life—in the process.<p/><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/2013/07/the-eleventh-commandment/"> [More...]</a></dd> <dd class="social-media"> <div class="twitter"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-count="horizontal" data-via="CommandPosts" data-url="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/2013/07/the-eleventh-commandment/" data-text="Just read The Eleventh Commandment by Jeffrey Archer">Tweet</a><script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608js_/http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div> <div class="facebook"><iframe src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608if_/http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.commandposts.com%2F2013%2F07%2Fthe-eleventh-commandment%2F&layout=button_count&show_faces=false&width=90&action=like&colorscheme=light" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:110px; height:20px;"></iframe></div> <div class="google"><g:plusone size="medium" href="http://www.commandposts.com/2013/07/the-eleventh-commandment/"></g:plusone></div> </dd>  </dl> <dl class="post-item"> <dt class="category-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/category/focus-on/" title="View all posts in Focus On">Focus On</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/category/focus-on/middle-east/" title="View all posts in Middle East" rel="category tag">Middle East</a></dt> <dd class="post-thumb"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/2013/07/operatian-kadesh-the-suez-canal-fiasco/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608im_/http://www.commandposts.com//wp-content/files_mf/portsaidsuezcanalcrisis.jpg?w=182&hash=c94724d504e4a46c2e572f5a5c3b8eb4" alt="" title="Smoke rises from oil tanks beside the Suez Canal hit during the initial Anglo-French assault on Port Said, 5 November 1956. Image credit: UK Government. Caption credit: Wikipedia Commons."/></a></dd> <dt class="post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/2013/07/operatian-kadesh-the-suez-canal-fiasco/">Operatian Kadesh: The Suez Canal Fiasco</a></dt> <dd class="meta">By: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/author/walter-j-boyne/" title="Posts by Walter J. Boyne">Walter J. Boyne</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/2013/07/">July</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/2013/07/24/">24</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/2013/">2013</a> <br/></dd> <dd class="the-excerpt"><p>Gamal Abdel Nasser, the president of Egypt, sought to become the leader of the Arab world by maintaining constant pressure on Israel and defying the once-great colonial powers Great Britain and France. Nasser sponsored fedayeen terrorist attacks against Israel, closed the Red Sea's narrow Straits of Tiran, and effected a military alliance with Syria. His military movements were buttressed by massive infusion of Soviet aid, principally heavy weapons. In 1955 Egypt received 200 armored troop carriers, 100 self-propelled guns, 230 tanks, 200 warplanes, 500 artillery pieces, and a miniature navy of destroyers, submarines, and patrol boats. Soviet technicians began training the Egyptians in the use of the equipment in what was the first extensive Soviet foothold in the Middle East. For Moscow it was a dream come true: a position in the Mediterranean.<p/> <p>The newfound strength and the promise implicit in the Soviet ally gave Nasser courage. When the United States reneged on its promise to fund the Aswan Dam, he announced on July 26, 1956, the nationalization of the Suez Canal and the abrogation of the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty.<p/> <p>The blow to Anglo-French prestige was insufferable, and a decision was made to retake the canal by a military operation. Britain and France were aware that Israel had been forced into planning a preemptive attack on Egypt. In response, Egypt, Syria, and Jordan formed a joint military command to fight Israel.<p/> <p>It must be made plain that Israel was not an innocent bystander in the world of politics. Israeli agents had bombed both U.S. and British installations in Egypt as a part of plot to tarnish Nasser's image.<p/> <p>The Israeli leadership decided in July 1956 that war was inevitable and that they would launch it sometime that year." France and Great Britain secretly invited Israel to cooperate in a joint operation. 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When President George Bush announced his final ultimatum on March 17, 2003, the only condition under which Saddam could avoid war was that he and his sons leave Iraq within 48 hours.<p/> <p>Qusay, although the younger brother, ran Saddam’s Special Republican Guard and Iraq’s intelligence agencies, and was considered the dictator’s heir apparent. 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Sullivan">Mark T. Sullivan</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/2013/07/">July</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/2013/07/19/">19</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150129011608/http://www.commandposts.com/2013/">2013</a> <br/></dd> <dd class="the-excerpt"><p>The Jefferson Club is a remote, private resort for the super-rich—the buildings, the amenities, and the security are state of the art and beyond compare. Many of the world’s wealthiest people—business leaders, entrepreneurs, politicians, celebrities—gather for the most exclusive New Year’s Eve party in the world. As expensive champagne flows and multibillion dollar deals are arranged, the unimaginable happens—a highly trained, heavily armed paramilitary force calling itself the Third Position Army breaches the world’s best security system and takes everybody hostage.<p/> <p>“Mickey” Hennessey, former U.S. Special Agent, is the head of security for the Jefferson Club. A divorced father of three teenagers, he’s spending the holiday with his kids. When the club is attacked, his entire team is wiped out and only he makes it out of the club alive. Now he’s outside while his kids are trapped inside, hostages of the Third Position Army who are putting seven of the ten richest men on “trial” for their crimes against humanity, live on the internet for the world to see. 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