Letter From MHQ
Flashback
Pirates; spy planes
Comments
In praise of the machine gun
Experience
First Blood
by Deneys Reitz
A young Boer gets a taste of battle
Unknown Soldier
Soldier, Thief, Mercenary, Hero
by Rafe Blaufarb
Misadventures of a Napoleon aide
In Review
The Afghan Way of War, by Robert Johnson, and The Dark Defile, by Diana Preston. Plus, Ralph Peters’s new Killer Angels–like novel on Gettysburg, and David Petraeus’s heroes from history
FRONT LINES
The War List
Greatest tank commanders
From the Dossier
Andrew Jackson
Weapons Check
Dane ax
Fighting Words
Medieval terms
Speaking of…
Retreat
Battle Schemes
Spanish Armada map |
COVER PHOTO: A Special Forces soldier on alert in Afghanistan in 2002, known only as “Cowboy,” no name, no rank. Special Forces and the CIA were key to the operation that toppled the Taliban in 2001. (Scott Nelson/Getty Images)
SUBSCRIBER-ONLY BONUS SECTION
The Enemy Among Us
by Thomas B. Allen
How British POWs came to dine with Thomas Jefferson at Monticello and fall in love with the country they once fought
Extra Round
Images of War: Photographer Philip Jones Griffiths captures a tense moment in Northern Ireland in 1972.

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