I am writing this on June 6, 2026, 82 years after Gen. Dwight Eisenhower ordered Operation Overlord. That order – and the operation’s success – guaranteed the defeat of Nazi Germany. It’s possible that Germany could have defended itself from the Russian counterattack in the east, but with U.S. and British forces also attacking in […]
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