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.

Uncivil War

AN END IN SIGHT FOR KOREAN WAR?

WWI Museum Recounts 1918

Podcasts Honor U.S. Veterans

JAPAN ACTIVATES MARINES FOR FIRST TIME SINCE WWII

COAST GUARD RETIRES STORIED CUTTER SHERMAN

WAR RECORD

ALLEN FINDS JUNEAU, SHIP THAT CLAIMED SULLIVAN BROTHERS

Subway Diggers Find Roman Ruins

Was American Response to Holocaust Late?

Database to ID WWII Unknowns

WWII Museum Honors Hope

WWII-ERA OSS RECEIVES CONGRESSIONAL GOLD

DANISH DIVERS FIND HIGH-TECH NAZI SUB

SCREEN LEGENDS • War has a peculiar way of making heroes out of the most unlikely candidates. These new and forthcoming films spotlight such unassuming warriors:

U-2s Over Cuba Casey Sherman & Michael Tougias

Selfless Service

Loss of the Golden Lion, 1944

SMS Wolf

THE BEASTS OF BUDAPEST • Amid the 1956 Hungarian Revolution a bold British military attaché got a close look at disabled and captured Soviet T-54A tanks

BARBARIANS AT THE GATE • Offered terms by besieging Xiongnu nomads in AD 75–76, Han Chinese commander Geng Gong gave an unconventional answer—he killed, cooked and ate their envoy

Cross Purposes

DIVIDED ISLAND • In 1974 Turkish and Greek factions took up arms on the island nation of Cyprus, sparking a divisive conflict with lasting ramifications

Invasion of Cyprus, 1974

HIGH TIDE OF VIKING IRELAND • At Clontarf on Good Friday 1014 the Irish united under High King Brian Boru to drive out Viking invaders

GERMANY’S SEA EAGLE • In late 1916 a German naval adventurer slipped the British blockade aboard a three-masted windjammer to raid like the pirates of old

HOLDING THE LINE IN MALAYA • British administrators put down the 1948–60 communist uprising using a successful and surprising mix of counterinsurgency tactics

Birth of the RAF

Recommended

Bayonet Hill, South Korea

War Games

Make Music, Not War • Troops of the U.S. Army’s 1st Cavalry Division come ashore in September 1965 at Qui Nhon, South Vietnam, as part of the buildup of American forces in the Southeast Asian war zone. In addition to his M79 grenade launcher, one man shoulders a nonstandard piece of equipment—his guitar.