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October 23, 1983, a massive explosion ripped through the barracks of the battalion landing team (BLT) of the 24th Marine Amphibious Unit at the Beirut International Airport.
Middle East Remains Unstable 30 Years after Attacks on Peacekeepers in Lebanon
Abraham Lincoln Campaign Poster 1860
"Great God, What does it Mean?" - Lee's Escape at Williamsport
Predator drone.
Aerial Torpedoes, Buzz Bombs, and Predators: The Long Cultural History of Drones
Pinterest Hien Luong Bridge - Ben Hai River, Quang Tri, Vietnam
Vietnam Revisited: Forty Years after the Paris Peace Accord
The First Crusade: The Call from the East, by Peter Frankopan Book Cover.
Restoring the Origins of the First Crusade: A Medieval Chronicle Written in the Twenty-First Century
soldiers patrolling in Iraq
The U.S. Invasion of Iraq, 10 Years Later
1996 suicide bombing in Jerusalem.
The Human Use of Human Beings: A Brief History of Suicide Bombing
A Sea Fight with Barbary Corsairs by Laureys a Castro, c. 1681
Hostage Taking in Algeria Is a 200-Year-Old Story
The Blood of Free Men: The Liberation of Paris, 1944, by Michael Neiberg Book Cover.
How the Sun Rose Again on the City of Light
State of War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1945-2011, by Paul A. C. Koistinen Book Cover.
The Anatomy of the Military-Industrial Complex
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War, by Nathaniel Philbrick Book Cover.
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
This detail from an early-20th-century image over the entrance to an arms factory in Belgium depicts a European arms manufacturer selling a gun to a darker-skinned purchaser in an exotic setting.
"Merchants of Death": The International Traffic in Arms
Photo of Ernest Hemingway smiling.
The Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and the Murder of Jose Robles
Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War, by Harry S. Stout Book cover.
Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War
Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle that Made England, by Juliet Barker Little, Brown and Company book cover.
Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle that Made England
Cover of 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War by Benny Morris.
The Battle For 1948
Cover of Where Have All the Soldiers Gone: The Transformation of Modern Europe by Jeff Sheehan.
How the Mighty European Military State has Fallen
Cover of Song of Wrath The Peloponnesian War Begins by J. E. Lendon.
A Time For War
 Cover of The Gold Standard at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Rising Powers, Global Money, and the Age of Empire by Steven Bryan.
All that Glitters Is Not Laissez-Faire
Cover of Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants: A Maritime History of the Early Modern Mediterranean by Molly Greene.
Pirates, Pirates Everywhere but Not Enough of Them in This Book
Cover of With Our Backs to the Wall Victory and Defeat in 1918 by David Stevenson.
The End of the War as They Knew It
 Cover of Chivalry in Medieval England by Nigel Saul
Knighthood As It Was, Not As We Wish It Were
Cover of The Battle of Adwa African Victory in the Age of Empire by Raymond Jonas
When Ethiopia Stunned the World
In this detail from a political cartoon, a caring woman whose garment reads 'liberty' symbolizes this humanitarian impulse.
Humanitarian Intervention: The American Experience from William McKinley to Barack Obama