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Benedict Arnold: The Hero Before the Traitor

Before his epic betrayal, Arnold proved himself an imaginative and tenacious field commander...
Portfolio: Gene Basset’s Vietnam Sketchbook

IN 1965 GENE BASSET shipped out for Vietnam, not as yet another American GI but as a political cartoonist for the Scripps Howard News Service. But like a GI, Basset found out what...
Bring In the Germans

Needing to build a modern army, the Nationalist Chinese government sought the advice of veteran German officers in the late 1920s and '30s...
Scots Peak at the Battle of Prestonpans, 1745

The legendary defeat of a British army in 1745 was the high point for the doomed Bonnie Prince Charlie, his Jacobite Rebellion, and the Highland way of life...

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The Spoils of War

How American wartime cargo inspired cults in the Solomon Islands after World War II...
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Nathanael Greene’s Steeplechase in the Carolinas, 1781

When Nathanael Greene and Charles Cornwallis finally clashed at Guilford Courthouse, Cornwallis had bayonets and discipline. Greene had a surprise—and a war-winning strategy...
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Experience: On the Ground in Hiroshima, August 6, 1945

Dr. Hachiya was at home and awake early on a morning that was “still, warm, and beautiful,” as he wrote in the daily diary he kept. At the time, he was director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital, and as befits the trained...
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The War List: The Plagues of War

Diseases that affected the fates of nations...
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Ask MHQ: Marines in the Dominican Republic?

Q I was part of the U.S. invasion of the Dominican Republic in 1965 by the 82nd Airborne Division and the 5th Marines. I know there were more than 40,000 American troops there, including several thousand from the Organization of American...
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Behind the Lines: From Separate and Unequal to Shipmates

The U.S. Navy’s surprise steps toward desegregation in World War II...
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Laws of War: NATO, an Evolving Alliance

Though the treaty hasn't been altered in its six decades, the strategic stance of NATO has evolved with the times...
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Why Germany’s Kriegsmarine Lost the Battle of the Atlantic

Without improvements in technological and tactical effectiveness, its U-boats were quite literally sunk...




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