Sparks Commentary

“[The Congress shall have the power] To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas , and offences against the law of...

“There shall be a firm inviolable and universal peace , and a true and sincere friendship between His Britannick Majesty , his heirs and suc...

“And there was Cap’n Washington , And gentle folks about him; They say he’s grown so ‘tarnal proud He will not ride without ‘em. Yankee Dood...

“His Brittanic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz., New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations,...

“Therefore no one in the armed forces is treated as familiarly as are spies , no one is given rewards as rich as those given to spies , and ...

World War II has been depicted in countless books , documentaries , and Hollywood movies . Some of these movies are basically action films o...

In Italy, the distant Battle of Taranto proved the effectiveness of aircraft carriers In November 1940, a British   aircraft carrier  launch...

German U-boats were once the terror of the high seas, and this was true during both world wars. In the  First World War , this campaign had ...

In the 1970s, a British television network made a series called  “The World at War,”  possibly the most comprehensive television history ev...

Warning: This blog post contains some disturbing pictures. One of these in particular is very graphic, and may merit special caution. I grew...

“There are a lot of people who say that bombing can never win a war. Well, my answer to that is that it has never been tried yet, and we sha...

“Is this a game, or is it real?” – Quote from “WarGames” (1983) , a fictional movie about a close call with nuclear war, which came out ...

"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an IRON CURTAIN  has descended across the continent. Behind that line lie all...

"The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the ...

"The Government of the German Reich and The Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics[,] desirous of strengthening the ca...

"It shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba against any nation in the Western Hemisphere ...

"The executive power [of the Confederacy] shall be vested in a President of the Confederate States of America. He and the Vice Presid...

" ' A house divided against itself cannot stand .' I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half ...