by Dale Jenkins | May 28, 2026 | Published Articles
Decryption experts at Pearl Harbor broke the Japanese code that detailed the Japanese advance toward Midway a week ahead of the June 4, 1942 attack. The Japanese would launch half their planes at 0430 from 220 miles northwest of Midway against PacFlt shore defenses on...
by Dale Jenkins | Apr 17, 2026 | Published Articles
The Roman Empire developed as a civilization over seven centuries from the city of Rome to an empire encompassing the territories on the entire shoreline of the Mediterranean Sea, north to the British Isles and eastward to the valley of the Tigris and Euphrates. They...
by Dale Jenkins | Mar 10, 2026 | Published Articles
William L. Ramsay – Wake Island Wildcat – A Marine Fighter Pilot’s Epic Battle at the Beginning of World War II, Stackpole Books, 2024. Book Review by Dale A. Jenkins William L. Ramsey is a professor of history at Lander University, and previously...
by Dale Jenkins | Feb 1, 2026 | Published Articles
In 1804, in a pompous ceremony in Notre Dame cathedral, Napoleon placed the royal crown of France on his own head and proclaimed himself Emperor of France. The ceremony took place with Pope Pius VII in attendance to conduct the coronation, but to show that he was the...
by Dale Jenkins | Dec 15, 2025 | Published Articles
On December 4, I attended the 125th Anniversary Dinner of the Ends of the Earth Club in Washington, D.C. The featured speaker was Vice Admiral Heidi Berg, USN, Commander of Fleet Cyber Command, Navy Space Command, and the U.S. TENTH Fleet, who leads more than 15,000...
by Dale Jenkins | Dec 8, 2025 | Published Articles
As Pearl Harbor Remembrance Week continues, we turn from the attack itself to the man who addressed a shaken nation the following day: President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Before delivering the now-iconic “Day of Infamy” address, Roosevelt had already forged...