Military History
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: November 08, 2011 at 6:45 pm
Rodric Braithwaite considers the parallels between the Soviet war in Afghanistan and modern-day conflicts in that long-turbulent region.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: November 08, 2011 at 6:36 pm
John Prados takes a fresh look at the 1944 Normandy campaign, considering the impact of Ultra intercepts and the way the German Wehrmacht performed.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: November 08, 2011 at 6:28 pm
Rafe Blaufarb and Claudia Liebeskind revisit the Napoleonic wars through the memoirs and diaries of common soldiers and civilians.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: November 08, 2011 at 6:18 pm
Simon James looks at Roman history from the perspective of the common soldiers, provincial residents and conquered peoples.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: November 08, 2011 at 6:05 pm
Red Orchestra 2 is the most realistic first-person shooter to hit the market in the past decade.
Published: November 08, 2011 at 5:50 pm
The January 2012 issue of Military History features stories about race relations in the U.S. military, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, Douglas MacArthur's postwar role in Japan, photographer Susan Meiselas' photos of wartime Nicaragua and Cherokee Chief Dragging Canoe's war against U.S. frontier settlements.
Jon Guttman |
Published: November 08, 2011 at 5:24 pm
The Type 95 boasted three times the range of its U.S. Navy counterpart, was faster than the electrically driven Mark 18, and it left no wake.
Stanley Weintraub |
Published: November 08, 2011 at 5:14 pm
In August 1945 MacArthur arrived in postwar Japan, tasked with the job of rebuilding that defeated nation
Christine Ammer |
Published: November 08, 2011 at 2:55 pm
The blitz is on! Lingo from war that's found a way into sports.
Published: November 04, 2011 at 8:12 pm
Compare the strategic objective of the Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (to compel the United States to sue for peace) with that of the Sept. 11, 2001, al Qaeda terrorist attacks (to provoke a global religious war).…
Jon Guttman |
Published: November 04, 2011 at 5:39 pm
A samurai's daisho comprised the long katana fighting sword and the shorter wakizashi for close combat or, if need be, ritual suicide.
Published: November 04, 2011 at 3:29 pm
In his new book The Storm of War, Cambridge-educated historian Andrew Roberts takes another look at German competence and Russian sacrifice in World War II.
Published: November 04, 2011 at 2:34 pm
Readers letters in the January 2012 issue of Military History sound off about history's great military escapes, Pancho Villa's war movie, General Douglas MacArthur, the Irish Brigade, counterinsurgencies and Richard the Lionheart.
Michael W. Robbins |
Published: November 04, 2011 at 2:13 pm
The American military has a long and uneven history of working toward full and fair treatment of blacks and other minorities.
Karl Marlantes |
Published: October 21, 2011 at 2:17 pm
In an excerpt from What It Is Like to Go to War, author Karl Marlantes lays out his rationale for lying in Vietnam
Marc Leepson |
Published: September 15, 2011 at 12:27 pm
On a 1966 tour of Vietnam, the legendary Israeli military leader came to some stunning conclusions about the U.S. war strategy
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