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The fake army that saved D-Day

Before the D-Day landings, the Allies waged a vast war of deception. Inflatable tanks, false radio traffic, and a Spanish ...
If you were dropped into the White House of the 1890s, much of Donald Trump’s presidency would look entirely unremarkable.
The US Constitution gives Congress power to declare war, yet it is the US presidents who often drive conflict, using declarations, executive authority, emergency measures ...
Yes, the United States did, in fact, buy Alaska. In 1867, the US purchased the vast northern territory from the Russian ...
First articulated in 1823, the Monroe Doctrine was largely meant to stave off European colonial influence in the western hemisphere, but modern presidents have used it to justify military intervention ...
Trump has upended the national tradition of claiming, however hypocritically, that foreign intervention is not about power or ...
At the turn of the 20th century, a commission set out to replace the old West Boston Bridge with “one of the finest and most beautiful structures in the world”—and hired two MIT alumni to make it ...
Whiskey has often found a home in the White House. Each president's choice and how they drank it reveals a lot about the ...
Trump’s attack on Venezuela suggests expansionism is under way but some argue it is simply standard US foreign policy stripped of hypocrisy ...
Trump’s strike on Venezuela revives a discredited tradition — without even the pretense of an existential threat.
Here are 11 famous quotes by Theodore Roosevelt for motivation, drawn from the life of this legendary US president. Learn the meaning of these Theodore Roosevel quotes, who he was and interesting ...
OP-ED. The Trump administration stubbornly believes that the only way for the US to regain its lost greatness is through ...