Military History Quarterly
When Edwin M. Stanton assumed the post of secretary of war in January 1862, Joseph Medill, the fiery proprietor of the Chicago Tribune, spelled out the hurdles he would face in managing the Union military in Civil War America. “You...
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Medical progress, bought at the enormous cost of human lives, may be the most lasting and vital benefit of war. “I am badly injured, Doctor; I fear I am dying… I think the wound in my shoulder is still bleeding.”...
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Matthew B. Ridgway, who brought a beaten Eighth Army back from disaster in 1951, was a thinking—and fighting—man’s soldier. IF YOU ASKED A GROUP OF AVERAGE AMERICANS to name the greatest American general of the twentieth...
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Author James A. Morgan, III discusses his new book, A Little Short of Boats: The Battles of Ball’s Bluff & Edwards Ferry, October 21-22, 1861. ...
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Eccentric solo inventor J. Walter Christie designed vehicles like no others. But his oddball designs influenced some of the 20th century’s best tanks. ...
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In 1943 General Alphonse Juin and his Corps Expéditionnaire Français showed the Allies how to win a fight in the mountains...
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In 1942, the U.S. Army Air Forces’ brand-new Air Transport Command began running the most audacious airlift of World War II: flying “the Hump” over the foothills of the Himalayas ON AUGUST 2, 1943, CBS WAR...
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In early March 1814, Napoleon was outmaneuvered at Laon, France, by Field Marshal Gebhard von Blücher’s Allied army, leaving the capital city of Paris unprotected IN EARLY NOVEMBER 1813, several weeks after his crushing defeat...
