Dispatch: U.S. Military History Magazine

This Week in U.S. Military History: December 23rd, 2025–December 29th, 2025 traces a late-December calendar filled with turning points, from Washington’s icy Christmas crossing of the Delaware and the surprise at Trenton to the quiet formality of his resignation at Annapolis and the signing of the Treaty of Ghent. Listeners move from the frozen ground at Wounded Knee to a tiny atoll at Wake Island, then onward to the “arsenal of democracy,” Bastogne’s relief in the Battle of the Bulge, and the massive Hungnam evacuation in Korea.

Across these stories, the episode shows how leadership decisions, industrial mobilization, hard fighting, and tragic misuse of force all share space in the same week of the year, revealing how American arms have been used, tested, and questioned over time. This Week in U.S. Military History is the Tuesday feature of Dispatch: U.S. Military History Magazine, developed by Trackpads dot com, offering a guided listen through battles, speeches, treaties, and evacuations that still shape how we think about service and sacrifice.