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World War II June 2007 Stephen Hyslop |
Blueprint for Blitzkrieg Hitler's chiefs harnessed lightning -- then discovered the difficulty of making it strike twice |
World War II October 2006 Robert Mulcahy |
Interview with Rolf Hertenstein: A World War II Panzerman in Poland and France As a young soldier in the 2nd Panzer Division, Rolf Hertenstein was at the forefront of the armored offensives in Poland and France and a witness to the dawn of a new era in warfare. |
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 June 2006 Williamson Murray |
Field Marshall Erwin Rommel: The Desert Fox's Defense of Normandy During World War II, Field Marshall Erwin Rommel's decision to stop the Allied invasion of France at the water's edge was contrary to the rule book and anathema to his more tradition-bound contemporaries. |
World War II August 2006 Jonathan W. Jordan |
Operation Bagration: Soviet Offensive of 1944 Operation Bagration, the Soviet offensive of 1944, made the Normandy landings look like a mere scuffle -- in size, scope, and results! |
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 Jon Latimer |
Hitler's Boy Soldiers in Normandy In the summer of 1944, the 12th SS Hitlerjugend Panzer Division threw itself against the mighty Allied onslaught. |
World War II Flint Whitlock |
Allied Agony at Anzio The daring seaborne operation was planned as a way of outflanking German strength on Italy's Gustav Line and swiftly capturing Rome, but almost nothing went according to plan. |
World War II Williamson Murray |
Airborne Comes of Age From Germany's first major drop into Norway in 1940 to the Allies' last airborne operation across the Rhine in March 1945, tens of thousands of airborne soldiers fell from the skies to fight behind enemy lines. |
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. |
World War II April 22, 2004 Zabecki & Wooster |
Herrlisheim: Death of an American Combat Command With their backs to the wall, German troops fought ferociously against the American VI Corps in and around a small Alsatian village. |
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. |
Military History Quarterly Winter 2007 Stanley Weintraub |
Patton's Last Christmas Turned loose with the Third Army in France, he made up for lost time. |
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. |
Military History November 2007 Dennis Showalter |
The Day of Doom: The Battle of Gravelotte/Saint-Privat On a single day in 1870, Europe's two greatest armies nearly annihilated each other in an epic slaughter that would not be matched until the stalemates of World War I. |
World War II August 25, 2004 Colonel William Wilson |
Ambitious Airborne Assault: Operation Market Garden It was hoped that Operation Market Garden would shorten the war, but the largest airborne operation of World War II failed in its main objectives. |
Military History December 2005 James W. Shosenberg |
Austerlitz: Napoleon's Masterstroke Facing a formidable coalition, the French emperor devised a plan to defeat his counterparts from Austria and Russia in one swift campaign. |
World War II December 2006 Mark J. Reardon |
Battle of the Hurtgen Forest: The 9th Infantry Division Suffered in the Heavily Armed Woods The bitter and bloody experience of the 9th Infantry Division in the Hurtgen Forest in autumn 1944 should have been enough to warn Allied leaders that the German army wasn't finished just yet. |
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. |
World War II Ralph E. Hersko, Jr. |
Winter Fury Near Elsenborn Ridge The heroic American stand at the towns of Krinkelt and Rocherath slowed the German advance in the Battle of the Bulge. |
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. |
Military History Quarterly Summer 2004 John M. Taylor |
World War II: 101st Airborne Division Participate in Operation Overlord In their baptism of fire, the green paratroopers of General Maxwell Taylor's 101st Airborne Division performed like seasoned veterans in Operation Overlord. |
World War II March 2006 |
Battle of the Bulge: Robert Walter's Baptism of Fire Swept up in the largest American campaign of the war in Europe, Robert Walter remembers the Battle of the Bulge as a series of small dramas that played themselves out in the wooded hills near Elsenborn Ridge. |
World War II June 8, 2004 Michael Haskew |
Holding the Line Along Hell's Highway As the 101st secured Eindhoven and Veghel at the start of Operation Market-Garden, its battles in Holland were only just beginning. |
World War II May 2006 Ben Herndon |
Leonard Rosen: 82nd Airborne Paratrooper in WWII As soon as he put on Uncle Sam's olive drab in 1941, Leonard Rosen knew he wanted to be a paratrooper. |
Military History October 2006 James W. Shosenberg |
Battle of Jena: Napoleon's Double Knock-out Punch Napoleon returned to his headquarters believing he had just crushed the main Prussian army at Jena. He was wrong. At Naumburg, 18 miles to the north, Marshal Louis Nicholas Davout was facing 2-to-1 odds against Duke Carl of Brunswick's troops. |
World War II June 2005 Eric Hammel |
Okinawa: The Last Landing The American invasion of Okinawa was the largest amphibious assault of World War II. It was also the last. |
Military History Quarterly December 15, 2004 Joseph E. Persico |
Wasted Lives on Armistice Day Did American commanders needlessly send doughboys to their deaths during the hours before the 1918 armistice went into effect? |
World War II Bart Hagerman |
Airborne Bridge Across the Rhine Paratroopers from two Allied divisions were droppped east of the great natural barrier, penetrating into Germany itself. |
World War II Kelly Bell |
Costly Capture of Crete German air superiority eventually drove the Royal Navy from the waters off the Greek island, Crete, and ensured the success of a bloody airborne invasion. |
Salon.com March 28, 2001 Gary Kamiya |
Violating the dead Two books tell the truth about the most horrific battle of our time -- and a movie desecrates it... |
Military History Colonel Harry G. Summers, Jr. |
Korean War: A Fresh Perspective More than forty-five years after shipping out to fight in Korea, the author gains new insight into what the war had been all about. |
World War II Michael Reynolds |
Massacre at Malmedy By carefully separating fact from fiction, a clearer picture emerges of the events surrounding the infamous execution of American POWs during the Battle of the Bulge. |
World War II May 25, 2004 George J. Winter Sr. |
Breakout From Normandy In July 1944, panzer commander Fritz Langanke struggled to guide his tank out of the Roncey Pocket and the maelstrom enveloping German forces trapped in it. |
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. |
Vietnam June 2006 James M. Haley |
1861 French Conquest of Saigon: Battle of the Ky Hoa Forts In an 1861 battle with the French, the Vietnamese showed some of the fighting tenacity they would later display in places like Dien Bien Phu and Hue during the 20th century. |
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. |
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. |
World War II John Bryant |
Robert Felgar: A Bomber Pilot Remembers An interview with Robert Felgar about being shot down and captured in WWII. |
World War II Sep/Oct 2006 |
Lost Prison Interview with Hermann Goring: The Reichsmarschall's Revelations A long-overlooked interview with imprisoned Nazi Hermann Goring provides a window on Hitler's flawed decision-making and explains why Germany's blueprint for victory depended on keeping America out of the war. |
Military History April 2007 David A. Bell |
Napoleon's Total War Napoleon's suppression of Spain's 'guerrilla war' of independence 1808-1814 was something new under the sun: a war against everyone. |
Parameters Autumn 2006 Jeffrey Record |
External Assistance: Enabler of Insurgent Success For either the insurgent side or the counterinsurgent side, material strength unguided by sound strategy and unsupported by sufficient willingness to fight and die is a recipe for almost certain defeat. But most insurgencies seek foreign help for good reason. |
American History October 2007 James B. Daniels |
The Battle of Chippewa An unlikely victory on the Canadian side of the Niagara River during the War of 1812 helped transform the motley U.S. Army into a professional fighting force. |
World War II September 2005 Hans Klein |
Hans Klein: Across the Desert With Rommel's Afrika Korps During his time with the Hermann Goring Division in North Africa, the author's devotion to the Afrika Korps and its commander, Erwin Rommel, was absolute. |
Parameters Summer 2004 Gordon & Sollinger |
The Army's Dilemma The Army is perceived by many as unimaginative, obstructionist, and wedded to concepts of warfare that are increasingly irrelevant to the current geopolitical environment. This article suggests an explanation for this perception and ways the Army might alter it. |
Parameters Summer 2006 Lou DiMarco |
Losing the Moral Compass: Torture and Guerre Revolutionnaire in the Algerian War Torture also has been the subject of much domestic political debate in the US. The French experience in Algeria from 1954 to 1962 is one of the clearest examples of how ill-conceived interrogation techniques contributed directly to the strategic failure of a counterinsurgency and the success of an insurgency. |
Parameters Spring 2005 |
Book Reviews Abandoning Vietnam: How America Left and South Vietnam Lost Its War....The Moral Warrior: Ethics and Service in the U.S.... etc. |
Parameters Winter 2003/2004 Wilson, Gordon & Johnson |
An Alternative Future Force: Building a Better Army The Army's transformation concept rests on a set of major assumptions that should be questioned. This article suggests an alternative pathway for preparing US ground forces to meet the challenges of the next several decades. |
Parameters Spring 2004 |
Book Reviews A book review of Beyond Baghdad. |
Military History January 2007 |
Letters From Readers Venona Files Reviewed... Wehrmacht's Comeuppance... Levy and the Appeasement Myth... Nurnberg, Not Dresden... etc. |