Dispatch: U.S. Military History Magazine

This Week in U.S. Military History: September 29th, 2026–October 5th, 2026 explores a week that stretches from the fog and confusion of the Battle of Germantown to the burning streets of Mogadishu and the quiet, decisive activation of new American commands. Listeners follow Washington’s risky assault outside British-held Philadelphia, the unraveling of Benedict Arnold’s treason, and the hard-fought victory at the Battle of the Thames that reshaped control of the Old Northwest and ended Tecumseh’s hopes for a lasting Native confederacy.

From there, the episode moves through the brutal assault on the Hindenburg Line in the final weeks of the First World War, the triumphant end of the Berlin Airlift, and the commissioning of USS Nautilus as the world’s first nuclear-powered submarine. It also looks at how the creation of the Defense Intelligence Agency and United States Northern Command changed the way America organizes for intelligence and homeland defense, before closing with the costly Battle of Mogadishu. Throughout “This Week in U.S. Military History,” the Tuesday feature of Dispatch: U.S. Military History Magazine, developed by Trackpads.com, focuses on how leadership, adaptation, and sacrifice connect these very different moments across the years.