Dispatch: U.S. Military History Magazine

This Week in U.S. Military History: December 15th, 2026–December 21st, 2026 traces a seven-day span that links Valley Forge’s freezing encampment, the secession of South Carolina, and Sherman’s capture of Savannah with the rise of American sea power and emergency wartime authority. Listeners hear how winter hardship reshaped the Continental Army, how political crisis fractured the old Union, and how Civil War campaigns against railroads and ports pointed toward modern ideas of total war and national mobilization.

The story then moves into the Battle of the Bulge, Patton’s dramatic turn toward Bastogne, and his death months after victory in Europe, before carrying forward to the intense Linebacker II air campaign over North Vietnam, the night invasion of Panama during Operation Just Cause, and precision strikes in Operation Desert Fox. Along the way, the narration highlights decisions in snowbound forests, skies crowded with defenses, and tight urban streets, showing how leadership, adaptation, and endurance echo across eras. “This Week in U.S. Military History” is the Tuesday feature of Dispatch: U.S. Military History Magazine, developed by Trackpads dot com.