IT’S early afternoon as we settle at a tiny wooden table on the cobbles outside Cafe Sant Antonio in the sleepy Sicilian ...

In spring 1943, the hunters became the hunted. Allied radar, escort carriers, and Ultra intelligence shattered Germany’s once-lethal U-boat campaign within weeks. Submarines that had terrorised the ...

Howard woke up around midnight in a hospital in Cherbourg, France. He was among the lucky ones. On that Christmas Eve in 1944, a German U-boat torpedo killed 763 American soldiers just five miles from ...

Eight days into his first boat command, Karl-Adolf Schlitt made a toilet mistake that would get the whole crew captured or ...

New reporting that US forces used an aircraft painted to appear civilian for a lethal strike on a boat in the Caribbean Sea on September 2, 2025—killing 11 people—raises new questions about the ...

In 1944, the US Navy launched an unprecedented operation to seize an enemy submarine intact. After forcing U 505 to surface, an American boarding party raced against flooding and booby traps to secure ...

Even accepting the Trump administration’s claim that there is an armed conflict with suspected drug runners, the laws of war bar “perfidy.” Even accepting the Trump administration’s claim that there ...

When ordering elite troops to storm a fortified compound in Caracas and capture Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro on Saturday morning, President Donald Trump tapped into a long history of U.S.

The White House has confirmed that President Donald Trump's administration is “actively” exploring ways to acquire Greenland in what would be a bold assertion of U.S. influence in the face of ...

Jim Duncan, a retired city planner, has written more than 600 short histories of Austin businesses. The American-Statesman introduced Duncan and his series, “Jim Duncan’s Austin,” on July 6. This week ...

Though Donald Trump has pursued a US acquisition of Greenland more aggressively than any of his predecessors, the idea dates back to the 1860s under President Andrew Johnson. President Donald Trump’s ...