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.

The Korean War That Almost Was

MILITARY HISTORY

Korean DMZ

News

Interview A Father’s Secret War

Valor Machine-gun Milhais • Aníbal Milhais Portuguese Expeditionary Corps Ordem Militar da Torre e Espada Western Front 1918

What We Learned From… The Battle of Tashkessen

Hardware Horsa and Waco Gliders

‘BOARD HER, BOYS!’ • Unable to wrest USS Philadelphia from the clutches of piratical Tripolitans, Stephen Decatur resolved to burn the captured frigate to the waterline

THE WAGES OF WAR • In 1965 Rhodesia’s white-minority government went rogue, sparking a war whose reverberations have left a nation in anguish

Rhodesian Bush War

THE MAGINOT MENTALITY • The wavering French High Command, not any technological failings, spelled the doom of the vaunted Gallic fortifications

PARTING SHOT AT SCAPA FLOW • In June 1919, seven months after the signing of the armistice, a determined admiral of the Imperial German Navy fired the final salvo of World War I

D-DAY + 75 YEARS • In the predawn hours of June 6, 1944, some 156,000 Allied troops set out across the English Channel to take the fight to Germany

Bomber Onslaught

Hallowed Ground Pwll Melyn, Wales

War Games

Shot in the Dark • In 1941 a British Eastern Command machine-gun crew practices setting up and firing its Vickers Mk I blindfolded in order to familiarize themselves with the weapon, should they be called on to prepare for combat in the darkness.