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Major Gen. Lucian K. Truscott Jr. is photographed in June 1944 during World War II at an unknown location. (AP Photo/U.S. Army)

The Allies Invade Southern France: Seaports and a Race up the Rhone

Austin Bay · August 21, 2014 2:46 pm

Islamic State’s murderous excess is the road to its demise

Austin Bay · August 14, 2014 2:52 pm

A man watches from a jetty as a Mistral-class French amphibious warship docks on the Neva River in downtown St. Petersburg, Russia, Monday, Nov. 23, 2009. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Sell French warships to NATO, not Russia

Austin Bay · August 6, 2014 3:07 pm

German Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany in his field uniform during World War I, shown in this undated photo. (AP Photo)

The July Crisis of 1914 echoes the modern phrase ‘leading from behind’

Austin Bay · July 30, 2014 2:07 pm

Ultimate responsibility for the massacre of the 298 people aboard Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 begins and ends in the Kremlin office of Russian president Vladimir Putin. (AP/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky)

Penalize Vladimir Putin and his culpable Kremlin

Austin Bay · July 23, 2014 2:43 pm

The Iron Dome defense system fires to intercept an incoming missiles from Gaza in the port town of Ashdod, Israel. Israel's military has deployed Iron Dome defense system to the north of the country following Israeli airstrikes in neighboring Syria targeting weapons believed to be destined for Lebanon's Hezbollah militants. (AP Photo /Tsafrir Abayov)

Israeli Iron Dome demonstrates missile defense payoffs

Austin Bay · July 16, 2014 3:11 pm

A woman from an elite unit of female Kurdish Peshmerga fighters trains in Sulaimaniyah, 160 miles northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, in this Thursday, July 3, 2014 photo. (AP Photo)

An independent Kurdistan: World War I continues

Austin Bay · July 9, 2014 7:09 pm

Bombs bursting in air: America’s airpower advantage, 1944-2014

Austin Bay · July 2, 2014 3:01 pm

Gravestones for fallen German soldiers of both World Wars standing at the cemetery in Dortmund, Germany, Monday, April 28, 2014. The First World War began on July 1914 and lasted until November 1918. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Is the rise of ISIS World War I’s next phase?

Austin Bay · June 25, 2014 2:56 pm

Shiite tribal fighters carry a poster of Shiite spiritual leader Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, as they raise their weapons chanting slogans against the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city. (AP/Nabil Al-Jurani)

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’s media foray

Austin Bay · June 18, 2014 2:41 pm

Vietnamese protest outside the Chinese Embassy on Sunday, May 11, 2014 in Hanoi, Vietnam, against Beijing's deployment of an oil rig in the contested waters of the South China Sea. (AP Photo/Chris Brummitt)

China-Vietnam clash could spawn new anti-China alliance

Austin Bay · June 11, 2014 3:17 pm

U.S WWII veterans, foreground, some of them who landed on Picauville France on June 6, 1944 , attend with locals a ceremony as part of the commemoration of the 70th D-Day anniversary, Thursday. World leaders and veterans prepare to mark the 70th anniversary of the D-Day invasion this week in Normandy. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)

D-DAY: Rangers lead to way at Pointe du Hoc

Austin Bay · June 5, 2014 3:34 pm