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 Warriors Who Nearly Destroyed Cortés

Military History

McArthur’s Gamble

History Repeats in Ukraine

New Life for a Nieuport

Devotion

WAR RECORD

What’s Wrong With This Picture?

‘Ghost Army’ Gets Its Due

Is Moskva Largest Warship Sunk in 40 Years?

TAPS

Cmdr. Billie Farrell

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Valor Arctic Survivor

What We Learned From… Brunanburh, 937

TODAY IN HISTORY • JANUARY 16, 2001

Hardware USS Constitution

POKING THE BEAR • Pinned between the Caucasus mountains and Mother Russia, Chechnya has a long history of rebelling against its imperial overlord

1994–95 First Chechen War

THE FOREIGN LEGION • France’s most celebrated military formation is its most international

LONGSHANKS’ VAIN VICTORY AT FALKIRK • In 1298 England’s King Edward waged a ruthless and successful campaign against rebelling Scots—but it was ultimately all for naught

A MAD AND RASH FELLOW • Personally appointed by George Washington as an aide-de-camp, young John Laurens risked all in the pursuit of American independence from Great Britain

RETRIBUTION • The aptly named May 1943 operation to foil an Axis evacuation from North Africa was more than duty to the officers and men of the British Royal Navy’s Mediterranean Fleet—it was personal

‘CARTHAGE MUST BE DESTROYED’ • In 146 BC consul Scipio Aemilianus carried out the elder statesman Cato’s standing threat against Rome’s resurgent North African nemesis

The Last Kingdom

Hallowed Ground Blanc Mont Ridge, France

War Games

Tug of War