Steeped in the ancient Bushido code of the Samurai, Kamikaze (Divine Wind) forces, or organized suicide attacks, on land (sacrificial attacks), sea (motorboats and torpedoes), and air sacrificed themselves in battle in a desperate bid for victory that spelled ultimate doom for the Japanese Empire these tactics drove the U.S.' decision to use the atomic bomb in order to prevent further loss of life.
The USS Indianapolis, returning from a secret mission delivering the atomic bomb, is torpedoed and sinks.
'Bombers Without Escorts,' a look at the disastrous miscalculation made by the Army Air Forces when they raided Schweinfurt and Regensburg in Germany in 1943.
Allied troops are bombed by their own planes at Normandy.
An American B-24 Liberator lost over the Mediterranean in a daylight bombing mission
In 1940, Mussolini invades Greece, but suffers a severe setback.
The U.S. Navy continues to outfit its carriers with a fatal flaw.
Blunders of battle cruiser design dooms ships in a battle at Jutland.
Churchill sends two warships to Singapore without air cover.
A general's flawed tactics causes wide-scale mutinies in the French army.
First Sea Lord Winston Churchill's badly planned attack on Turkey in World War I
Failed 1991 coup against Mikhail Gorbachev.
Saddam's blunderbuss decision to invade Iraq's neighbor.
By the mid-1930s, Soviet Armed Forces ranked with the world's most modern - but a purge of senior officers would have disastrous consequences.
See how the Lusitania sailed into history, leading the U.S. into World War I
Blistering conditions imposed by the Allies on post-war Germany resulted in the rise of Nazism.
This program examines the ramifications of the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, where Viet Minh revolutionaries defeated French forces and changed the future of Southeast Asia.
Whatever your opinion on the moral rights and wrongs of the Falklands War, it is inescapably one of the most significant historical events of the 1980s. When Argentinian dictator General Galtieri invaded the South Atlantic islands early in 1982, he set off a chain of events that would eventually lead to the overthrow of his own government. The resulting war would see British and Argentinian forces involved in the biggest naval conflict staged since World War II, the South Americans finally defeated, and more than 1,000 personnel lose their lives around Goose Green and Port Stanley.
The Soviet Union shoots down pilot Gary Powers in a top-secret U.S. spy plane over Russia.
The disastrous ‘Bay of Pigs’ invasion and the subsequent Cuban Missile crisis brought the world to the brink of Nuclear War. Was it necessary and how close did the world come to World War III?
The attempt by U.S. Special Forces to rescue hostages in the U.S. Embassy during the Iranian Revolution in 1980
A hydrogen bomb is dropped dangerously close to a Spanish holiday resort.