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D-Day + 75 Years
In the predawn hours of June 6, 1944, some 156,000 Allied troops set out across the English Channel to take the fight to Germany
WWII Battles
Book Review: Airborne in 1943
Kevin Wilson relates that year's grueling night campaigns waged by the Royal Air Force Bomber Command over Europe
Military History
The Maginot Mentality
The wavering French High Command, not any technological failings, spelled the doom of the vaunted Gallic fortifications
WWII Battles
Book Review: American Knights
Tory Failmezger recounts the World War II tank-busting campaigns of the U.S. 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion
Military History
Book Review: Presidents of War
Michael Beschloss discusses nine U.S. presidents who have guided the nation through or kept it out of war
Military History
Waking the Hermit
In 1871 the U.S. Navy and Marines mounted a punitive expedition against Korea, a kingdom that wanted nothing to do with the modern Western world
Korean War
July 2019 Readers’ Letters
Readers sound off about the Korean DMZ and the sinking, 37 years apart, of the cruisers Indianapolis and Belgrano
WWII Figures
Book Review: Hermann Ehrhardt
John Koster profiles German monarchist Hermann Ehrhardt as a foil to disastrous Führer Adolf Hitler
Mag: Military History Featured
Moscow’s Afghan Morass
As the Soviet Union learned in the 1980s, Afghanistan will not be ruled from the outside—nor perhaps from the inside
Military History
Rebel with a Lost Cause
Exiled Roman commander Quintus Sertorius waged a guerrilla-style civil war in Hispania, where time proved his greatest enemy
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Corporal Hitler: Hero or Deserter?
As the Nazi Party rose to power in 1930s Germany, the World War I record of its would-be Führer came under public scrutiny
Mag: Military History Featured
An Ear for Trouble
A barbaric encounter aboard a seized merchantman off Cuba roused Britain to war with Spain for dominance in the Caribbean
Mag: Military History Featured
Book Review: The Pirate World
Angus Konstam recounts the history of maritime outlawry as far back as the second millennium BC
Mag: Military History Featured
What We Learned From… Battle of the Chir River
The Germans virtually destroyed the Soviet Fifth Tank Army, primarily using a lone panzer division and despite a local Soviet numerical superiority
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The Destruction of C Force
In 1941 Japanese invaders conquered Hong Kong in just 17 days—four years of suffering followed for Canadian defenders
