Long months spent in the trenches during the siege of Sevastopol convinced a French […]
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The Ultimate Weapon
Precision-guided munitions have changed the modern battlefield, and in the process created a new American way of war.
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European Power Projection
Far from an inexorable march of conquest, Western Europe’s early military forays around the […]
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The Champagne Campaign
The meticulously planned invasion of southern France and the unassuming commander who led it were largely overlooked in the wake of the Normandy landings.
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New Light on Ancient Battles
A careful reading between—or even underneath—the lines can change our interpretation of pivotal military […]
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The Year Air Power Came of Age
In 1917 over Flanders fields, a fundamental shift in the airplane’s role signaled its […]
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Fighting Words: Cold War Terms
The Cold War incident described in Ed Offley’s “Buried at Sea” is but one […]
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Ask MHQ: Could France Have Stopped the Nazis?
Q: If the Germans had gone with their first plan rather than the revised […]
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Frontier Royalty: A French general was right at home leading Texas troops to victory in the Red River Campaign
Unlike the other Confederate officers, Camille Armand Jules Marie, Prince de Polignac, had a European aristocratic bearing, something unfamiliar to Texans.
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Behind the Lines | Unwilling Accomplice
In 1939 Poland’s Nazi occupiers made Adam Czerniaków the leader of the Jews in Warsaw. Three years later he would reach the breaking point