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When Sartre Got Conscripted
On September 20th, 1939, Jean-Paul Sartre was conscripted into the French Army. ...
When India’s First Woman Photojournalist Documented India’s First Republic Day Parade
Homai Vyarawalla was India's first woman photojournalist. ...
Napoleon's hat auctioned at $2.1M
At an auction in France, a black felt bicorn hat believed to have belonged to Napoleon so...
When the South Korean Army Banned Friend by Paek Nam Nyong
Friend by Paek Nam Nyong (translated by Immanuel Kim, published by Columbia University ...
When Graham Greene worked for the MI6
Graham Greene had continued working for British intelligence into his seventies. ...
Agreeing with the KGB ...
Did you hear the old Soviet joke where a KGB director asked one of his lieutenants what ...
Served as Chief of Staff of Three Different Army Commands
Lt Gen HRS Mann has had the unique distinction of having served as the Chief of Staff of ...
Father and Son Commanding the Same Division
General George S. Patton followed his father in command of the 2nd Armoured Division of t...
Wartime Propaganda Slogan During World War II
Loose lips [might] sink ships. ...
Edward Gibbon
And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. ...
John A Logan
Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to ...
Lieutenant General William Pagonis
Owning the facts is a prerequisite to leadership. But there are millions of technocrats o...
Lt Gen Hubert Worthington
An Officer should be comely, spratly and above all else, confident in his own dress and ...
Bernard Brodie, Military Strategist
Thus far, while the chief purpose of the military establishment had been to win wars, aft...
Graham Greene
The novelist and the intelligence officer have this in common: each must feel his way in ...
Carl Sagan
The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with...
BH Liddell Hart
{Strategy is} the art of distributing and applying military means to fulfill the ends of ...
USJCS
Military strategy is the art and science of employing the armed forces of a nation to se...
Name this unique place famous for its intersection of soldiering and sports.
That one village, one family, one street gave India 14 Olympians, an unrivaled track reco...
The Journey of Heinrich Harrer: From Dehradun’s Prem Nagar POW Camp to Seven Years in Tibet
However, the outbreak of World War II led to Harrer and other German and Austrian nation...
The Book That Literally Saved A Life
Maurice Hamonneau, a French legionnaire and the sole survivor of an artillery attack near...
Jim Corbett’s Stint in the Indian Labour Corps During World War I
Corbett raised the No. 70 Kumaon Company ...
The Doctor Surgeon with the Magic Scalpel
A story of dedication, courage, surgical skill and love for the uniform shared by Major G...
The Time UK's Royal Navy Posted an Ad on LinkedIn to Recruit a Rear-Admiral
In December 2023, the UK’s Royal Navy was forced to advertise for a top job on social me...
A Major General ‘By Mistake’…
During the British raj in India, rulers of princely states eagerly sought honorary milita...