Military History
Jon Guttman |
Published: January 07, 2011 at 12:49 pm
The Flammenwerfer ("flamethrower") first saw battlefield use in World War I at Verdun, France, but the weapon didn't play a decisive role in combat until World War II.
Jon Guttman |
Published: January 07, 2011 at 12:19 pm
The socket bayonet, which saw duty in armies for more than a century, enabled a soldier to fix his bayonet while retaining the ability to fire.
David T. Zabecki |
Published: January 07, 2011 at 12:00 pm
In his books "Forgotten Victory" (2001) and "The Chief" (2011), British military historian Gary Sheffield lays to rest many of the persistent myths about World War I and British Army Field Marshal Douglas Haig.
Published: January 06, 2011 at 5:52 pm
Readers letters in the March 2011 issue of Military History sound off about cruelty in the Japanese military in World War II, 10 battles that shaped America, toy soldiers and the linked fates of the U.S. submarines Sculpin and Squalus.
Michael W. Robbins |
Published: January 06, 2011 at 5:29 pm
Though the word "battle" calls to mind history's great conflicts on land, humankind's battles at sea have been every bit as decisive and consequential.
Edward G. Lengel |
Published: January 06, 2011 at 4:51 pm
Its defense by overmatched American troops exemplified the murderous futility of Western Front fighting
Richard Conniff |
Published: November 09, 2010 at 6:06 pm
In an age of biological discovery, a few modern-day warriors furthered science and saved lives
Published: November 05, 2010 at 3:41 pm
With its new real-time strategy game R.U.S.E., Ubisoft diverts a player's focus from combat to deception.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: November 05, 2010 at 3:25 pm
Robert L. O'Connell's book Ghosts of Cannae looks at Carthaginian General Hannibal's decisive yet ultimately hollow victory against Rome at Cannae in 216 BC.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: November 05, 2010 at 3:10 pm
Dominic Lieven turns Napoleon's invasion of Russia on its head, looking at it from the tsar's perspective, in Russia Against Napoleon.
Jon Guttman |
Published: November 04, 2010 at 4:01 pm
The Brown Bess musket served British infantry units for the better part of a century.
Jon Guttman |
Published: November 04, 2010 at 3:13 pm
The entrenching tool, or E-tool, has become indispensable gear for the modern field soldier.
Published: November 04, 2010 at 12:58 pm
Lin Ezell, director of the five-year-old National Museum of the Marine Corps, discusses the museum's innovative building design, its mission and its future plans.
Thomas Fleming |
Published: November 03, 2010 at 5:01 pm
America was born of war, and the following 10 battles helped forge the nation and forever change world history.
Michael W. Robbins |
Published: November 03, 2010 at 4:29 pm
History is sometimes messy, and historians would do well to keep that in mind when seeking to create order from chaos.
Published: November 03, 2010 at 4:17 pm
Readers letters in the January 2011 issue of Military History sound off about the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, Trajan's Column in Rome, author Evan Thomas, the 1948-60 Malayan Emergency, weather's impact on war and the 1899-1902 Second Boer War.
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