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Military History Quarterly
Summer 2006
Edward M. Coffman |
Peyton C. March: Greatest Unsung American General of World War I John J. Pershing and Peyton C. March together provided the edge to Allied victory over Germany. Yet while Pershing remains famous, March has been virtually forgotten.   |
World War II
Gary Schreckengost |
Buying Time At The Battle Of The Bulge Outnumbered and outgunned, the men of the 110th Infantry Regiment upset the German timetable during the Battle of the Bulge. |
World War II
October 2007
Lloyd Clark |
Operation Market Garden Reconsidered A British historian argues that Operation Market Garden wasn't such a bad idea after all. |
World War II
November 2003
Ronald E. Powaski |
World War II: Stopping Field Marshal Erich von Manstein's Panzers Much of the future course of World War II was determined by Adolf Hitler's decision in the spring of 1940 to stop Field Marshal Erich von Manstein's panzers at their moment of supreme victory. |
World War II
Jon Guttman |
Closing the Falaise Pocket In August 1944, the Germans fought desperately to hold open their last escape route from Normandy while the Polish 1st Armored and the U.S. 90th Infantry divisions fought equally hard to close it. |
World War II
November 2006
David P. Colley |
African American Platoons in World War II In March 1945, black volunteers forced the first breach in the U.S. Army's color barrier -- the first black soldiers officially serving shoulder to shoulder with whites in an American infantry unit since George Washington was in command of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. |
Military History Quarterly
Winter 2007
Edward L. Bimberg |
Augustin-Leon Guillaume's Goums in a Modern War Tribal Moroccan mountain fighters groomed for modern war by a tough French general played key roles in driving the Nazis from North Africa and liberating Sicily, Corsica, and Rome. |
America's Civil War
July 19, 2004
Julie Holcomb |
Eyewitness to War: Iron Brigade Soldier's Wartime Letters Timothy Webster survived Fredericksburg and Gettysburg with the Iron Brigade, but not Petersburg. |
America's Civil War
James B. Ronan II |
Union Regulars Brigade Desperate Stand at Chickamauga Civil War Brigadier General John King's disciplined brigade of Union Regulars found itself tested as never before at Chickamauga. For two bloody days, the Regulars dashed from one endangered spot to another, seeking to save their army from annihilation. |
World War II
May 25, 2004
Kevin R. Austra |
Desperate Hours on Omaha Beach As soldiers of the U.S. Army's 1st Infantry Division leaped from their landing craft into the choppy waters off Omaha Beach, many cursed the landing-craft pilots who had deposited them too far away from the invasion beach. |
World War II
May 25, 2004
David R. Jennys |
D-Day's Mighty Host A perilous airborne strike and the mightiest assemblage of seaborne power yet seen heralded the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany. |
Civil War Times
September 2006
Ted Alexander |
Battle of Antietam: Two Great American Armies Engage in Combat The opposing armies at Antietam were two very different forces commanded by two very different men. |
Parameters
Summer 2008
Robert Gates |
Reflections on Leadership Partners in Command, a book by Mark Perry, is an account of the unique relationship between General Dwight D. Eisenhower and General George Marshall, and how they played a significant role in the American victory in World War II. |
Civil War Times
Thomas T. Taylor |
Eyewitness to the Battle of Atlanta Among the blue-clad soldiers moving against Atlanta in late July 1864 was Major Thomas T. Taylor of Georgetown, Ohio. In these passages from the letter he wrote to his wife, Netta, he described what he saw, experienced, and did during the Battle of Atlanta. |
Parameters
Summer 2006
Conrad C. Crane |
Beware of Boldness The main argument of this article is that the US military does not need a culture that encourages daring risk-taking, especially at senior levels. We may already be paying a price in Iraq for this new emphasis on boldness. |
World War II
Williamson Murray |
Triumph of Operation Torch The Allied invasion of North Africa was a necessary first step on the road to victory in Europe. |
Vietnam
John Mann |
Personality: Captain Lee Morrow Captain Lee Morrow was brave but not foolhardy. He got results in combat, and no one was cooler under fire. |
America's Civil War
September 2006
Gerald J. Smith |
44th Georgia Regiment Volunteers in the American Civil War The hard-fighting 44th Georgia suffered some of the heaviest losses of any regiment in the Civil War. |
National Defense
April 2011
Eric Beidel |
Army Shifts Focus to Dismounted Soldiers Army leaders say soldiers are the service's greatest weapon, and they are asking industry to shift their focus from platform to person and consider the infantryman first as it plans investments in new technology. |
National Defense
December 2009
Grace V. Jean |
Army to Create Education Programs for Soldiers Who Are Too Busy to Go to School Repeated deployments have kept soldiers away from schoolhouses. But the Army still believes there are ways to provide learning opportunities outside of the traditional education system. |
National Defense
January 2007
Sandra I. Erwin |
While Still at War, Services Brood Over `What's Next?' The business of planning for the future indeed can be scary, especially when it comes to predicting when and where the nation will fight the next war. |
National Defense
April 2006
Sandra Erwin |
An Army Under Stress: A Tale of Two Green Lines An upcoming decision on whether to begin drawing down U.S. troops in Iraq sets the stage for yet another round of inside-the-Beltway wrangling on the burdens this war is piling on the armed services. |
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Letters From Readers - December 2007 - Military History Children at War... Instructions on making Molotov cocktails... Benedict Arnold historically maligned... Pershing's Warning... etc. |
