Military History
Michael W. Robbins |
Published: May 05, 2011 at 8:50 pm
Military leaders are called on to make tough calls - and then stand by those decisions.
Published: May 05, 2011 at 8:32 pm
Readers letters in the July 2011 issue of Military History sound off about Hill 314, World War II resistance movements and Japanese atrocities during the war.
Jon Guttman |
Published: May 05, 2011 at 8:11 pm
The Fairbairn-Sykes fighting knife saw duty from Shanghai's back alleys to the front lines of World War II and remains in use today.
P.W. Singer |
Published: May 05, 2011 at 7:30 pm
Once scorned as little more than toys, military robots now play a key role on modern-day battlefields
Jon Guttman |
Published: May 05, 2011 at 7:27 pm
Though the Goliath tracked mine saw little action, it served as the precursor of modern radio-controlled robotic vehicles.
Jim Lacey |
Published: March 11, 2011 at 2:05 pm
Persia’s mighty army proved no match for the fired-up Athenian veterans in their epic close-quarters 490 BC battle
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: March 07, 2011 at 1:12 pm
In Europa Universalis III: Divine Wind, by Paradox Interactive, players jump in to World War II from either a Japanese or Chinese perspective.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: March 07, 2011 at 1:07 pm
In Washington: A Life, Ron Chernow has a candid, honest look at the often-mythologized American commander in chief and first president.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: March 07, 2011 at 1:05 pm
In The Envoy, author Alex Kershaw looks at the efforts of Swede Raoul Wallenberg to rescue Jews from Nazi-occupied Budapest in the closing months of World War II.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: March 07, 2011 at 1:01 pm
In The Real Falstaff, author Stephen Cooper reveals the mischaracterized real-life man behind the Shakespearean myth.
Jon Guttman |
Published: March 04, 2011 at 5:59 pm
Russia's Mosin-Nagant Model 1891/30 was bulky and crude but deadly accurate.
Jon Guttman |
Published: March 04, 2011 at 5:42 pm
Soldiers have long appreciated the use of hand signals as a means of silent communication on the front lines.
Published: March 04, 2011 at 4:36 pm
Foreign Affairs editor Gideon Rose dedicates his book How Wars End, "To "the victims of bad planning."
Published: March 03, 2011 at 4:36 pm
Readers letters in the May 2011 issue of Military History sound off about Japanese wartime cruelty, Victoria Cross recipient William Seeley, Revolution-era Tories, the 10 battles that shaped America, war toys, Army cemeteries and, yes, even the weather.
Michael W. Robbins |
Published: March 03, 2011 at 3:52 pm
The motivations behind warfare are many, from a sense of patriotism to the chance for adventure and perhaps darker reasons.
David Lauterborn |
Published: March 02, 2011 at 3:22 pm
Frank Buckles, 110, the last surviving American soldier from World War I, died on February 27, 2011
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