‘Desert Fox’ Offers Thrilling Battle Scenes—and No New Takes
The Rommel biography focuses more on the general's North Africa adventures than on fresh scholarship.
The Wages of War
In 1965 Rhodesia’s white-minority government went rogue, sparking a war whose reverberations have left a nation in anguish
Book Review: The Pirate World
Angus Konstam recounts the history of maritime outlawry as far back as the second millennium BC
Mad Mike and His Wild Geese
In 1964–65 soldier for hire Mike Hoare and a handful of mercenaries defeated a horde of drug-addled communist Simba rebels—and Che Guevara—to reclaim the Congo
The Worst Battlefield Blunders: Five Battles That Ended Badly
Battlefield blunders can be as decisive as brilliant tactics. Five of the worst military blunders came at the battles of Gallipoli, Fredericksburg, Dien Bien Phu, Adwa, and Little Bighorn.
Book Review: A Military History of Modern South Africa
Ian van Der Waag presents the first study of South Africa's armed forces as an institution
A Lesson from the Boers
It was the Germans who, early in World War I, took the Boers' open-order infantry tactics to heart
Great Guns!
In service to the British empire in Canada and South Africa, American machine gunner Arthur ‘Gat’ Howard lived up to his rat-a-tat nickname
What We Learned From… Siege of Jadotville, 1961
On June 30, 1960, amid violent riots after 52 years of colonial rule, Belgium reluctantly granted independence to Congo. No longer satisfied with the status quo, black enlisted men in the Force Publique (Congo’s military) mutinied against their white Belgian officers, and the country soon erupted in anti-white violence
