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Revisiting the Second World War's Battle for the Atlantic: A Case Study in Asymmetric Naval
Warfare providing powerful Lessons for today's Navy
Three years ago, on February 6, 2006, the Department of Defense issued the Quadrennial Defense
Review Report (QDR). Among other things this expansive one hundred plus page document examined
the United States' long-term defense requirements. As part of this review, the Department of Defense
is seeking to "prepare for wider asymmetric challenges and to hedge against uncertainty over the next
20 years." Read more...

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national archives of various nations.

The Decades between the World Wars: How Germany Created a Dominant Army from
the Ashes of Overwhelming Defeat - Part One
During the Second World War's first three years, Germany regularly defeated the most powerful
militaries on the planet; victories that placed Germany in position to dominate Europe.
Conventional wisdom posits the overwhelming successes won by Germany's armed forces
stemmed from a method of war fighting developed in the 1930s by Hitler and his generals; a set
of tactics named "Blitzkrieg Warfare." Nonetheless, this belief, and what is widely known
regarding how Nazi Germany built its army is patently wrong. Read more...

Revisiting one of World War II's greatest Controversies: Was the Soviet Union
preparing to attack Germany in 1941?
The Second World War ended over sixty years ago, yet much about the War remains either
misunderstood or unknown. In particular, historians have debated and sought to
understand Stalin's decision making process in the months leading up to the June 22, 1941
German invasion of the Soviet Union. Read more...

Was the Luftwaffe Really Intended to be Little More Than an Adjunct to the German Army?
The conventional wisdom has long argued Hitler's Luftwaffe was primarily designed around the goal of
providing support to the German army. However, the German Luftwaffe actually began and was initially
organized as a fairly well rounded institution designed to compete at all levels of aerial warfare. Read
more...