MHQ Magazine
In 1864 Harry Cooke performed for the president. Soon he was spying for the Union army...
MHQ Magazine
In 1944 a 30-year-old tank commander from a well-known Kentucky whiskey family made a name for himself at the Battle of Leyte...
MHQ Magazine
Fireships were vessels that, when filled with combustibles or explosives, could be floated or blown into enemy ships to disable or destroy them. In the age of sail, fireships could wreak their flaming havoc with terrifying rapidity. They...
MHQ Magazine
Mistakes will happen, even in the military. Here are six mishaps, miscalculations, and malfunctions that prove it. The Bomb Bay Flub On the afternoon of March 11, 1958, a Boeing B-47E Stratojet took off from Hunter Air Force Base...
MHQ Magazine
In an ambitious and provocative work that spans 25 centuries, Andrew Lambert, a professor of history at King’s College, London, draws a sharp distinction between seapower states and sea power (two words) states. The former, he writes,...
MHQ Magazine
Mary Borden was born in 1886 with the proverbial silver spoon in her mouth: Her father, a prominent Chicago lawyer, had struck it rich as one of the lead investors in a fabulously successful silver-mining venture in Colorado. After...
MHQ Magazine
In 1782, just a few years into its nationhood, the United States was forced to grapple with the issue of revenge as an instrument of war...
MHQ Magazine
In 1952 the widow of George S. Patton Jr. provided an intimate glimpse into the legendary general’s thinking. It began with the classics, for the Pattons felt that life was too short to get one’s education unless one started early, and...
