Military History - Feb/Mar 2009

Military History – Feb/Mar 2009 – Table of Contents

The Israel Defense Forces, 1940-41 Louisiana Maneuvers, Baron Johann de Kalb, Philip of Macedon, an American volunteer in the Spanish Civil War, and World War I cigarette cards are featured in the Feb/Mar 2009 issue of Military History

Subscribe to
Military History
magazine today!

FEATURES

Cover Story
Is the IDF Invincible?
By David T. Zabecki
Are the Israel Defense Forces really the world’s best army—or have they fought nothing but bush-league opponents?

The Genius of Philip II
By Richard A. Gabriel
Philip of Macedon fathered a new age of Western warfare

Portfolio: Military Motors
Collectible cigarette cards helped pass the time in the World War I trenches

The Greatest War Games
By Mark Perry
America forged an army during the 1940–41 Louisiana Maneuvers

Plotter or Patriot?
By Thomas Fleming
In 1777 Johann de Kalb sought to supplant George Washington

For Whom the Ambulance Rolls
By James Neugass
An American ambulance driver recalls the Spanish Civil War

DEPARTMENTS

Letters

News

What We Learned from the Battle of Attu

Interview
Alfred S. McLaren: Cold War Beneath the Ice

Valor
The 442nd Regimental Combat Team

Hand Tool
Cheval de frise

Power Tool
Browning M2 machine gun

Letter from Military History

Reviews

Hallowed Ground
Belleau Wood, France

War Games

Weapons We’re Glad They Never Built
Swiss Army KorpsTool 1

ONLINE EXTRAS

Military History Reader Poll:

Military History Reader Poll: What qualities displayed by Dwight Eisenhower and George Patton during the Louisiana Maneuvers might have influenced George Marshall’s World War II command assignments?

PLUS

Yom Kippur War

Wars of Alexander the Great

George Washington: His Final Days

On the cover: General Moshe Dayan was IDF chief of staff (1953–1958) and the winning commander of the 1967 Six-Day War