
One hundred and one years ago, the Christmas Truce of 1914 was a spontaneous cease-fire and a day of Christian brotherhood for both sides of the No Man’s Land along the Western Front. The event was kept secret by senior military officers and government censors as an embarrassing breakdown in military discipline.
by Chriss W. Street24 Dec 2015, 1:50 PM PST0

In the annals of world-historic personages, we might consider our 28th President, Woodrow Wilson; his tenure in office, replete with epic consequences and controversies, was, ultimately, a tragedy.
by James P. Pinkerton3 Dec 2015, 12:06 PM PST0

It is a long-term and striking characteristic of the American people to show particular devotion to their soldiers. The famed French observer of American life, Alexis de Tocqueville, understood in the 1830’s how the people of a participatory republic like the United States would be both fierce in war and show an uncommon devotion to those who had served in the military.
by Jarrett Stepman11 Nov 2015, 9:17 AM PST0

LONDON — The mystery vessel was found off the Swedish coast last week lying on the sea floor, its hatches closed. Cyrillic letters on the hull suggested it was Russian.
by Breitbart News4 Aug 2015, 8:42 AM PST0

Mustafa Karaaslan, an education official in Bursa, Turkey, has triggered national outrage after his Twitter account posted a picture of Turkey’s founding father Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in hell, presumably for being a secular leader, rather than an Islamist one.
by Mary Chastain19 Jun 2015, 8:37 AM PST0

World War I has received increased attention since its centennial commemoration in 2014, and that attention has led to a push for the Great War to finally have a proper memorial in Washington D.C.
by Jarrett Stepman24 May 2015, 2:10 PM PST0

If there were a turn-of-the-century equivalent of a TSA security line, Pier 54 at West 14th Street on May 1, 1915 may have been it.
by Breitbart News1 May 2015, 3:46 AM PST0

The Christian population of Turkey is evaporating rapidly. The nation, a NATO member since 1952, has experienced a reduction in its Christian population from 20% 100 years ago to only 0.2% today. The latest blow in the community occurred at the Hagia Sophia during Easter holy week.
by Mary Chastain21 Apr 2015, 5:58 AM PST0

The Armenian genocide is a very sensitive subject with Turkey, as it prefers to think of that horrendous century-old bloodbath as a military clash with the Ottoman Empire, which the Armenians lost very badly–badly enough to kill about 1.5 million of the 2 million Christian Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire at the time, to be specific.
by John Hayward16 Apr 2015, 2:01 PM PST0

Bob Schieffer could barely contain his outrage at Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) for daring to warn the Iranian leadership that any nuclear deal would have to be ratified by the Senate, under the U.S. Constitution, to be binding. As Cotton explained in his appearance on CBS News’ Face the Nation, Iran is clearly not hearing that from the Obama administration itself, which is desperate to achieve “peace at any price,” rather than using constitutional constraints as leverage to force a better deal.
by Joel B. Pollak15 Mar 2015, 1:53 PM PST0

Gallipoli was a failure that haunted Churchill as much as supporting the Iraq War haunts many politicians today. Yet he was right about Hitler when others hid from the truth. Churchill, like Netanyahu and unlike Barack Obama, worried more about victory than pride.
by Joel B. Pollak6 Mar 2015, 4:43 AM PST0

Turkey and Armenia schedule conflicting WW I centennial commemorations; China continues its double-digit military spending increases
by John J. Xenakis5 Mar 2015, 4:00 AM PST0

One of the greatest war movies ever made is Grand Illusion, Jean Renoir’s 1937 film about a group of French prisoners of war held in a German aristocrat’s castle during World War I.
by Breitbart News24 Dec 2014, 11:30 AM PST0

London (AFP) – A letter from a World War I soldier describing the “extraordinary sight” of a spontaneous Christmas ceasefire between German and British soldiers was published on Wednesday, 100 years after it was written.
by Breitbart News24 Dec 2014, 7:27 AM PST0