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MHQ Reviews: Last Men Out by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin

by David Lamb8/3/20114/12/2016

Vietnam journalist David Lamb reviews Bob Drury and Tom Clavin’s book, Last Men Out.

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Francis Marion Foils the British

by Jefferson M. Gray8/3/201112/5/2011

The Swamp Fox is one of history’s greatest guerrilla leaders. Just ask the Redcoats.

Posted inStories

Lone Star Nation

by Gregory Curtis7/22/20111/24/2018

Texas has been a state since 1845. So why do Texans still believe they live in a separate country?

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Ho, Giap and OSS Agent Henry Prunier

by Claude G. Berube5/24/20113/4/2016

During WWII, Henry Prunier parachuted into Indochina as part of an OSS mission to “give training to a ‘Mr. Hoo’s’ (Ho Chi Minh’s) insurgent forces”

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Drones Don’t Die – A History of Military Robotics

by P.W. Singer5/5/20114/13/2016

Once scorned as little more than toys, military robots now play a key role on modern-day battlefields

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Interview: Joe Galloway / Soldier’s Reporter Speaks His Mind

by Vietnam Magazine4/18/20116/10/2024

His unyielding commitment to truth, and to Vietnam vets, is as solid as ever.

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The Bolshevik Who Believed in Tanks

by Stephen Budiansky3/30/20114/13/2016

Mikhail Tukhachevsky’s new “deep battle” tank doctrine allowed the Soviets to smash German armor at Kursk and thereafter

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Building the Army of the Potomac

by Stephen W. Sears3/8/201110/19/2016

Stephen Sears writes of how the Army of the Potomac’s politically appointed generals and short-term volunteer troops nearly unhinged Lincoln’s plans in 1861 to win the Civil War.

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Tet – What Really Happened at Hue

by James H. Willbanks1/25/20115/19/2022

As 2,800 bodies were unearthed from mass graves, it was clear the VC had committed atrocity killings against civilians.

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Find the Cost of Freedom, Part 2

by Robert M. Citino12/3/20103/9/2016

The Allied occupation of Germany after World War II seems like a clear cut case: good triumphant over evil. The reality was a lot messier, and a lot less certain.

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