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.

Military History

Letters

Tensions Soar 40 Years After Beirut Bombings

Interview Beyond the Moon

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Valor Last Rifleman Standing

What We Learned From… Sir Julian Corbett

Hardware MQ-1 Predator

EYES IN THE SKY & HELLFIRE FROM THE HEAVENS • A look at the first half century of military satellites and drones

Anatomy of a Drone Strike

WHEN COSSACKS RULED UKRAINE • In 1648 Zaporozhian hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky started a regional uprising whose reverberations are still being felt

Cossack Rise

THE FIGHTING ROOSEVELTS • Theodore Roosevelt’s charge up Cuba’s San Juan Heights remains the stuff of legend, but each of his four sons demonstrated conspicuous courage in his own right

YOUNG LONGSHANKS’ LOSS AT LEWES • In 1264 the future king of England was still a 20-something novice when he put father Henry III’s army and throne in mortal peril against rebelling barons

CHAAARGE! • From the time human beings first learned to master the horse, man and beast have been inextricably linked, often in war

A LITTLE CLASH WITH BIG CONSEQUENCES • With his victory at the 1813 Battle of the Thames, William Henry Harrison broke the British hold on the Northwest Territory and shattered the region’s tribal confederacy

Tecumseh vs. Harrison

Hallowed Ground Masada, Israel

War Games

THE LINCOLN FORUM

Jupiter and Back Again

TODAY IN HISTORY MAY 13, 1865