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.

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War Dogs Trained to Sniff out Japanese • The brainchild of a Swiss expat dog trainer, a secret U.S. Army program sought to have dogs detect Japanese soldiers by their ‘unique smell.’

Military History • AUTUMN 2023 VOL. 40, NO. 2

Letters

Home From Korea, With Honors

Interview A Wartime Calling

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Valor Five-Time Primus Pilus • First Centurion Spurius Ligustinus Roman Army Civic Crown Europe and the Mediterranean 200–168 BC

What We Learned From… The Battle of Friedland, 1807

TODAY IN HISTORY

Hardware ‘Little Willie’ Landship

CHURCHILL’S ‘LANDSHIPS’ • Well before taking the world stage as wartime British prime minister, First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill was an early and key proponent of tanks

LOST IN THE CAVES • In the throes of their misadventure in Afghanistan, Soviet forces were drawn into back-to-back battles for a subterranean Mujahideen logistics base

Battling for Zhawar

THE KEY TO CANADA • In 1760 the reeling forces of New France defended the Richelieu River approach to Montreal against a fleet of emboldened British adventurers

SPECIAL EFFECTS • Clothes may not make the man, but the personal effects of some of history’s great commanders are almost as recognizable

FOLLY IN THE AEGEAN • In the fall of 1943 British dithering allowed the otherwise receding Germans to seize the Dodecanese Islands—a campaign that mattered little in the long run

How to Take Two Islands

The Loss of Oria

TURNING POINT ON LAKE MARACAIBO • In 1823, amid the Spanish American wars of independence, rival naval commanders met to decide Venezuela’s fate, if not their own

A Darker Hour Yet

Hallowed Ground Lundy’s Lane, Canada

War Games

All Is Forgiven