Writings
Essays and research-based articles on military history, early America, religion, and the Ancient World. Most of these are simply academic papers written during both undergraduate and graduate studies.
14 articles
Japan won at Tsushima through more than one famous maneuver: scouting, wireless reporting, practiced formations, concentrated fire, and nearby bases turned first contact into repeated tactical opportunities against a Russian fleet strained by distance and uneven organization.
Read the articleAt Inchon, planners did not remove the harbor's risks; they divided the assault between two high tides and used intelligence, fire support, practiced staffs, and beach logistics to keep the operation on schedule.
Read the articleThe Lines stopped Masséna without a great assault because forts, roads, signals, ships, a field army, and a stripped countryside turned delay into defeat.
Read the articleAt Cynoscephalae, a formed Macedonian phalanx drove back the Roman left while troops still climbing the ridge collapsed elsewhere; Rome won by connecting those unequal fights.
Read the articleBritain’s 1917 convoy system made merchant ships harder for U-boats to find, but only after new data, Allied escorts, and a demanding shore organization made protection possible.
Read the articleAntietam tested Jonathan Letterman's new ambulance organization before it was complete, revealing both the value of centralized evacuation and the work still left to do.
Read the articleOperation Bolo turned American predictability into a trap for North Vietnamese MiG-21s, but its celebrated tactical success could not produce lasting control of the air war.
Read the articleRamesses II recovered after a Hittite surprise nearly destroyed his divided army, but with Kadesh still in Hittite hands, his monuments transformed survival into royal victory.
Read the articleDaniel Morgan did not script a perfect double envelopment at Cowpens. He built a flexible defense that survived confusion and gave his officers and soldiers room to turn a British attack into a rout.
Read the articleSaladin's victory at Hattin came not from thirst or Frankish division alone, but from a campaign that made political, geographic, logistical, and tactical pressures reinforce one another.
Read the articleThe coalition's western envelopment in 1991 rested on months of strategic lift, improvised transport, host-nation support, and a supply system pushed close to its limits.
Read the articleFast, powerful, and capable of operating far beyond the battle fleet, the frigate became the indispensable cruiser of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century naval warfare.
Read the articleBritain’s air-defense advantage in 1940 came not from radar alone, but from an integrated system that converted warning into timely, economical fighter interceptions.
Read the articleHow Edward Hawke’s victory ended France’s invasion plans and helped secure Britain’s command of the sea during the Seven Years’ War.
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