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

‘Buzz Bomb’ Memorial

Medals of Honor to Four Vietnam Veterans

Interview Figures of War

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Valor Three Cheers!

What We Learned From… The Mallian Campaign, 326–325 BC

TODAY IN HISTORY JANUARY 30, 1835

Hardware Republic P-47D Thunderbolt

THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL • South America’s largest nation played an integral, if underappreciated, combat role in Italy in World War II

Brazil’s Role in World War II

ARMOR VS. GRUNTS • Recent decades have witnessed an escalating technological duel between tanks and the heretofore hapless foot soldier

KILL DE GAULLE! • In 1962 a team of would-be assassins, including disaffected veterans of the Algerian War, waited by a roadside in suburban Paris for a convoy carrying the French president

THE TRAIN WRECKERS • Answering the call for amphibious raiders during the Korean War, the Royal Marines of 41 Commando wreaked havoc on the enemy

TURNING THE TIDE IN HUDSON BAY • In the fall of 1697 a minor action in the subarctic reaches of North America shifted the balance of colonial power in the New World—for a time

THE MASTER OF ASIA MINOR • When strategists praise the military prowess of Roman general Lucius Licinius Lucullus, most students of ancient history wonder, Who?

Civilizing Nazis?

Hallowed Ground Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes, Germany

War Games

Down the Hatch • Wearing a regulation armor crewman’s boilersuit, Diana, Princess of Wales, lowers herself through the driver’s hatch of a British army FV101 Scorpion reconnaissance vehicle during a visit to the Royal Hampshire Regiment (of which she was honorary colonel in chief) at Tidworth Camp in Wiltshire, England, in June 1988.