In August, 1914, Europe erupted in warfare  For nearly three years, President Woodrow Wilson kept the United States out of the war, even in ...

"Do you not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?" Letter to his son, 1634. The Brexit vote last night ver...

Terrible news from Belgium this morning. We lived in Belgium for three years and have many friends there. Good people. The airport at ...

From our village in southern Belgium to downtown Paris was about a three hour drive. About the same as from Oriental to Raleigh. Two decad...

It is becoming pretty clear that the most urgent question facing today's Europe is the German question. Paul Krugman sees Germany as k...

In early May, 1945, the German Army began collapsing. Soldiers on the Western Front were surrendering right and left. Here is one story of ...

Is there something significant about the number 47? That's the same number Mitt Romney used to describe the percentage of Americans who ...

When I read about the shooting death of Boris Nemtsov, a critic of Putin, on the streets of Moscow, it reminded me of the 1934 assassination...

For the past couple of hours I have watched hordes of French citizens - Christians, Moslems and Jews, marching from Place de la Republique t...

When we lived in Belgium and traveled in northern France, we soon learned that Frenchmen had little to say about World War II. After all, we...

The calendar says today is Veterans' Day. History says today is Armistice Day - the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, when th...

As most of you know, we had an election last week. I've been pretty preoccupied with that (as Chair of the Pamlico County Democratic Par...

Soldiers and sailors mostly understand that success in war involves a lot of luck. Who survives and who doesn't may depend on a slight d...

Last August I published the link to an extract from Barbara Tuchman's Guns of August concerning the burning of Louvain in Belgium by Ge...

Anyone who has ever seen the movie, "A Bridge Too Far," knows something of the heroics of British, Polish and American paratrooper...

Scotland votes today on the referendum to leave the United Kingdom. Yes or No? The polls don't reveal how the vote will go. Earlier th...

Imagine you are dressed in your best parachute, flying over Holland enroute to a bridge over the Nederrijn at Arnhem. 70,000 years earlier, ...

Here is a link to a Canada NATO tweet clearing up Russian confusion about Map of Ukraine and Russia. Canada at NATO ...

Matthew Halton was a Canadian reporter travelling with General Le Clerc’s tanks that were approaching Paris. During the day he was to broa...