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Jozef Gabčík Jan Kubiš Reinhard Heydrich, the target of Operation Anthropoid. Special Operations Executive (SOE) code name for the mission to assassinate the hated SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich in Prague. The operation was planned for the Czech National Day in October 1941, but bad weather forced two postponements, so the team did not assemble in Czechoslovakia […]

(1897–1982) A lieutenant in World War I, Heusinger would become a lieutenant general in World War II, serving the German High Command as chief of the Operations Section. He was suspected in the 1944 plot to kill Hitler. Though never tried, Heusinger had reason to believe that the SS (Schutzstaffel) would try to kill him. […]

Maximiliano Hernández Martínez Gabriel García Márquez on the ultimate caudillo The Colombian novelist (1928–2014), famous for his absurdist portrayals of Latin American tyrants, refers in this excerpt from his Nobel Prize acceptance speech to the antics, and savagery, of a few leading military men: Our independence from Spanish domination did not put us beyond the […]

How “Great” Was Alexander? For all practical purposes Alexander’s empire died with Alexander. His only brother was feeble-minded, and his only heir was a baby. Neither was in any position to assert authority. But practical considerations aside, Alexander moved quickly to become a symbol of conquest. He gave a semblance of legitimacy to anyone who […]