How the 1860s changed the fields of battle forever. The 10-year span that began […]
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War for Peace in Vietnam
Final peace talks in Paris, interrupted by ferocious Yuletide bombing, epitomized the byzantine and […]
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The Iran–Iraq War Was a Modern-Day Conflict — But It Felt Like WWI
Though fought with contemporary weaponry, the conflict resembled nothing so much as the Western Front.
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Lincoln Changes the Rules of War
In the summer of 1862, President Abraham Lincoln was as “inconsolable as I could […]
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Blue and Gray: Revolutionary Ties to Civil Strife
Linking America’s Two Most Important Wars. The American Revolution and the Civil War rank […]
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The Making of Mass Warfare 1789-1918
A social revolution, a technological episode, and a mirror of the modern age. Military […]
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Irregular Warfare: Strength of Weakness
How legends of T. E. Lawrence’s guerrilla forces in Arabia and Orde Wingate’s Chindit […]
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Laws of War | Massing for La République
Europe’s first military conscription law, adopted in the wake of the French Revolution
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Book Review: Westmoreland’s War
Westmoreland’s War: Reassessing American Strategy in Vietnam, by Gregory A. Daddis, Oxford University Press, […]
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North Vietnam’s Big-Unit War and the Man Behind It
A fierce advocate of offensive battles using large forces, Communist leader Le Duan shaped […]