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Salon.com March 19, 2001 Stephen Lemons |
Jean-Jacques Annaud The renowned French director of "Quest for Fire," "The Lover" and "Seven Years in Tibet" provokes a firestorm over his breathtaking new war film, "Enemy at the Gates." |
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! |
Salon.com June 11, 2002 Allen Barra |
"The Fall of Berlin 1945" by Antony Beevor A historian describes Germany's fall to the Soviets in 1945, when civilians suffered the full fury and horror of war. |
Salon.com March 16, 2001 Andrew O'Hehir |
"Enemy at the Gates" How much of this thrilling face-off between Germans and Russians is true? If the movie's this good, who cares? |
World War II February 2006 Jonathan North |
Soviet Prisoners of War: Forgotten Nazi Victims of World War II For more than 60 years, the Wehrmacht has largely escaped scrutiny for its part in the deaths of more than 3.5 million Soviet prisoners of war. |
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 2007 Stephen Hyslop |
Blueprint for Blitzkrieg Hitler's chiefs harnessed lightning -- then discovered the difficulty of making it strike twice |
Reason January 2002 Michael Valdez Moses |
Virtual Warriors Nostalgia, the battlefield, and boomer cinema... |
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 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 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 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 Williamson Murray |
Triumph of Operation Torch The Allied invasion of North Africa was a necessary first step on the road to victory in Europe. |
AskMen.com Aaron Broverman |
Top 10: American Military Missions These 10 American military missions represent what it means to be American and trace the shaping of world history by the world's last standing superpower. |
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 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 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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Parameters Summer 2007 |
Book Reviews Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965 by Mark Moyar offers fresh insights on the war... Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945 by Catherine Merridale is social history at it's best... etc. |
AskMen.com February 4, 2004 Matthew Simpson |
Top 10 War Movies This list, limited to movies about 20th-century conflicts that include battle scenes, covers some of the best war movies ever made. |
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 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. |
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 John Bryant |
Robert Felgar: A Bomber Pilot Remembers An interview with Robert Felgar about being shot down and captured in WWII. |
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. |
World War II |
Letters From Readers - January/February 2008 - World War II One of the greatest acts of mass murder in the history of warfare... I was a child survivor of the war in Shanghai, China... Lend-Lease tanks and aircraft only a small place in the Soviet force structure... etc. |
World War II Robert Barr Smith |
The Greatest Raid of All The British raid on St. Nazaire, France, eliminated a vital German port facility and cemented the commandos' reputation as redoubtable fighters. |
Parameters Spring 2004 |
Book Reviews A book review of Beyond Baghdad. |
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. |
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. |
AskMen.com Jasper Anson |
Top 10: Battle Scenes Since cinema's early days, battle scenes have been popular with all audiences. And today's state-of-the-art battle scenes can get your heart pounding and your jaw dropping. Here's our list of the top ten movie battle scenes of all time. |
PC Magazine January 20, 2004 Peter Suciu |
War and PC World War II remains one of the most compelling events in human history, and many games are based on that conflict. Find out what it feels like to save the world from tyranny! |
Parameters Autumn 2006 Samuel J. Newland |
Review Essay Book review: The German Way of War: From the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich by Robert M. Citino... Germany and the Axis Powers: From Coalition to Collapse by Richard L. DiNardo... etc. |
World War II September 2007 |
Letters From Readers Unlikely Comrades in Arms... The Shot Heard 'Round Shanghai... A Survivor Who Spoke for Many... etc. |
Salon.com July 10, 2001 Suzy Hansen |
"Nothing human left" A journalist who disguised herself as a Chechen woman talks about the atrocities of the war, the cowardice of Western journalists and the dim hopes for peace... |
Salon.com September 26, 2002 Wesley Yang |
Hitler's best friend The debate over Albert Speer's responsibility for Nazi war crimes rages on in a new biography of the Third Reich's master architect and planner. |
Parameters Summer 2008 Jeffrey Record |
Retiring Hitler and "Appeasement" from the National Security Debate History has proven that negotiating with terrorists and radicals won't work. |
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 Autumn 2004 Michael O'Hanlon |
The Need to Increase the Size of the Deployable Army The possibility exists that large numbers of active-duty troops and reservists may soon leave the service rather than subjecting themselves to a life continually on the road. The seriousness of the worry cannot be easily established. |
Reason April 2009 Cathy Young |
Unclenching the Fist U.S.-Russian relations in the age of Obama. |
National Defense December 2011 Eric Beidel |
Battle-Scarred Troops Have Message for Army Training: Get Real A decade at war has presented officials with a dilemma: The training environment now must be made even more authentic to hold the attention of soldiers who already have experienced the real deal. |
Vietnam Michael J. Walsh |
Men with Green Faces In Vietnam's Mekong Delta, Navy SEALs were the military's 'eyes and ears,' providing vital intelligence on enemy operations. |
National Defense December 2003 Roxana Tiron |
Germany Launches Wide-Ranging Defense Reform The German government has until the end of this month to lay down the specifics for its 2005 defense plan, which will jumpstart a new effort to match the country's increased military commitments. |
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. |
Parameters Summer 2004 Brownlee & Schoomaker |
Serving a Nation at War: A Campaign Quality Army with Joint and Expeditionary Capabilities The United States is driving a rapid evolution in the methods and techniques of war. |
Reason Aug/Sep 2007 Michael C. Moynihan |
Hitler's Handouts Inside the Nazis' welfare state -- Book Review: Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State by Gotz Aly. |