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FEATURES
Cover Story
The Throwback War
By Robert M. Citino
Though fought with modern weaponry, the 1980–88 Iran-Iraq War—with its human-wave attacks, poison gas and mass casualties—resembled nothing so much as World War I
Put to the Sword
By Karen Kostyal
Britain's Banastre Tarleton struck fear into Colonial America
Portfolio: Navy Blue
Photographer Edward Steichen and his men shot America's Pacific War in color
First Black Colonel
By Fred L. Borch
Charles Young made a career of breaking down the Army's barriers
Bloodlands: Damascus
By Richard A. Gabriel
The Syrian capital is no stranger to war, death and destruction
Lithuania vs. U.S.S.R.
By Edward G. Lengel
For anti-Soviet Lithuanians, World War II didn't end in 1945
On the cover: An Iraqi soldier watches as the Iranian Abadan oil refinery burns in 1980, early in the Iran-Iraq War. (© Henri Bureau/Sygma/Corbis)
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Letters
Society of the Cincinnati, Superhuman Nazis
News
Caesar's Murder Site, Antietam Sesquicentennial
Interview
Robert Sullivan: In the Footsteps of Revolution
Valor
By Chuck Lyons
Humanity at Sea
What We Learned…
By Anthony Brandt
From Gallipoli
Decisions
By Edward G. Lengel
Introducing Poison Gas
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Hand Tool
By Jon Guttman
Punji Stakes
Power Tool
By Jon Guttman
M29 Davy Crockett
Letter From Military History
Reviews
Hallowed Ground
By Joe Glickman
Monmouth, New Jersey
War Games
General Disorder
By Rick Meyerowitz
Guy de Lusignan and the Battle of Hattin
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McDonnell F-4 Phantom: Middle East workhorse
Buffalo Soldiers in Utah: Charles Young was one
Francis Marion Foils the British: Evades Tarleton
Worst Battlefield Blunders: Gallipoli et al.
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