Dispatch: U.S. Military History Magazine

This Week in U.S. Military History: December 30th, 2025–January 5th, 2026 links a single winter week to turning points from Quebec’s snowbound ramparts to the burning streets of Buffalo and Manila. Listeners follow the Continental Army’s daring assaults at Trenton, Assunpink Creek, and Princeton, watch the ironclad USS Monitor vanish in a storm off Cape Hatteras, and hear how the Emancipation Proclamation reshaped the Civil War and opened the door to Black enlistment in Union ranks.

Across the twentieth century, the story moves from the Declaration by United Nations to jungle combat at Buna, Germany’s last western offensive in Operation Nordwind, and the fall of Seoul in the Korean War. Along the way, the narrative connects battlefield choices, political decisions, and harsh winter weather to the lives of soldiers and civilians who lived through them. “This Week in U.S. Military History” is the Tuesday feature of Dispatch: U.S. Military History Magazine, developed by Trackpads.com.