Military History

Military History is the nation’s oldest and most popular war magazine devoted to the history of warfare. Topics include naval history, army, infantry and foot soldiers from all branches of the military.

Crossing Facts

BRITISH RESEARCHERS FIND JONES’ BONHOMME RICHARD

Bob Drury & Tom Clavin Forging Washington’s Army

A Sailor From Boyhood

What We Learned From…Battle of the Chir River

Hardware Merkava Mk II

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

THE KOREAN WAR THAT ALMOST WAS • In the late 1960s North Korean incursions along the DMZ threatened to reignite the long dormant Korean War

THE EMBATTLED KOREAN DMZ

AN EAR FOR TROUBLE • A barbaric encounter aboard a seized merchantman off Cuba roused Britain to war with Spain for dominance in the Caribbean

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

REBEL WITH A LOST CAUSE • Exiled Roman commander Quintus Sertorius waged a guerrilla-style civil war in Hispania, where time proved his greatest enemy

THE DESTRUCTION OF C FORCE • In 1941 Japanese invaders conquered Hong Kong in just 17 days—four years of suffering followed for Canadian defenders

Seaborne Outlaws

Hallowed Ground Horseshoe Bend, Alabama

War Games

Bovines at 3 O’Clock Low • Cows graze to starboard of a ghost squadron of scrapped Junkers Ju 88 bombers at Flensburg airfield in far northern Germany on Aug. 2, 1945. Nearly three months had passed since the formal German surrender—plenty of time for the grass to grow back.