Military History Quarterly
Christine Ammer |
Published: December 02, 2009 at 9:09 pm
The Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, or WAAC, was established in May 1942 with the assistance of Gen. George C. Marshall (and Pearl Harbor). (U.S. Army)
Our lexicographer considers words
and phrases that developed as
the United States
was engaged in
World …
Robert M. Citino |
Published: December 02, 2009 at 9:05 pm
The Germans' 1941 Operation Mercury was a bold plan to drop thousands of Fallschirmjäger on to Crete's three airports, taking them by surprise; then airlift in regular troops to mop up—the first invasion carried out almost entirely by air. But its human cost was far too high.
Published: August 21, 2009 at 4:57 pm
Photographs from Koje-do Prison Camp, Korea, 1951-1953.
Christine Ammer |
Published: August 13, 2009 at 12:39 pm
Military history has given us a number of terms related to clothing.
John Prados |
Published: August 09, 2009 at 4:01 am
Forget Waterloo. Napoleon's decline was clearly signaled by his failures at the Battle of Eylau eight years earlier.
Published: August 09, 2009 at 4:00 am
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The Emperor's Tipping Point *[PREVIEW ARTICLE HERE]*
by John Prados
Forget Waterloo in 1815. Napoleon first faltered
some eight years earlier, at Eylau.
Citizen Tyrants
by Debra Hamel
Athenian …
William W. Horne |
Published: August 09, 2009 at 1:55 am
The Quarterly Journal of Military History Summer 2009 Volume 21, Number 4
Noah Andre Trudeau |
Published: January 20, 2009 at 1:49 am
The headstrong Gen. Philip Sheridan (left) had little patience for the careful battle tactics of Gen. Gouverneur Warren (right) and replaced him at Five Forks. But in 1880 Sheridan would be forced to justify his actions before a court of …
Allan R. Millett |
Published: January 20, 2009 at 1:47 am
Americans learned a hard lesson when North Korean prisoners took over their compound-and kidnapped a general.
Christine Ammer |
Published: January 20, 2009 at 1:45 am
Library of Congress"The Great War," wrote MHQ founding editor Robert Cowley in his book of the same name, "was the true turning point of the century just past" and created "that greatest of growth industries, violent death." Such cataclysmic events …
William W. Horne |
Published: January 20, 2009 at 1:43 am
MHQ Winter 2009A close examination of military history across eras inevitably turns up instances where one battle can have mind-boggling and wholly unforeseeable consequences decades, even centuries, in the future. Two stories in our Winter 2009 issue clearly demonstrate this …
Published: January 20, 2009 at 1:42 am
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Togo Ignites The Rising Sun
by John M. Taylor
By destroying the Russian fleets in the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War, the admiral opened his country's catastrophic era of militarism.
[Portfolio] Seeing Yellow
by Jennifer …
Douglas Porch |
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:12 pm
Winning the Rif War in 1920, Spaniards subdued Muslim revolutionaries, but with unexpected consequences for Spain and Morocco.
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