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Westmoreland and Sharon embarked on costly lawsuits to justify their battlefield judgments. They might have done much better to listen to Mrs. William Tecumseh Sherman.Joseph H. CooperJune/july...
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Fifty years ago these rough-and-ready tin soldiers were sold from bins cheap and by the handful. Today collectors are seeking them for their bright, simple vitality.Henry I. KurtzDecember...
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A former Department of Defense adviser—one of Robert S. McNamara’s Whiz Kids—explains why we tend to overestimate Russian strength, and why we underestimate what it will cost to defend ourselvesJerome...
View ArticleInventing A Modern Navy
Chaos and farce and catastrophe played a big part. But so did a few men of vision.Elting E. MorisonJune/July 1986This is the story of the efforts of naval officers to bring steam, coal, iron, steel,...
View Article101 More Things Every College Graduate Should Know About American History
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View ArticleThe Strategy Of Survival
A lifelong student of military history and affairs says that nuclear weapons have made the idea of war absurd. And it is precisely when everyone agrees that war is absurd that one gets started.Fredric...
View ArticleThe Secret Of The Soldiers Who Didn’t Shoot
Slam Marshall, who is regarded as one of our great military historians, looked into the heart of combat and discovered a mystery there that raised doubts about the fighting quality of U.S. troops. But...
View ArticleShellshock
Roger J. SpillerMay/june 1990Let’s call him Frank. “He was in the war” is how adults explained Frank’s odd behavior a generation ago. As he walked through the small town then, his gait was clumsy, his...
View ArticleThe Media And The Military
Peter AndrewsJuly/August 1991After more than 130 years, the fundamental dispute between the American media and the American military has changed hardly at all. The essential argument is still about...
View ArticleThe Seventeenth Largest Army
The old Regular Army, part fairy tale and part dirty joke, was generally either ignored or disdained. But its people went about their work with a dogged humdrum gallantry—and when the storm broke,...
View ArticleBuild-down
After every war in the nation’s history, the military has faced not only calls for demobilization but new challenges and new opportunities. It is happening again.T. A. HeppenheimerDecember 1993Not...
View ArticleThe Ancient History Of The Internet
Though it appears to have sprung up overnight, the inspiration of free-spirited hackers, it in fact was born in Defense Department Cold War projects of the 1950sStephen BatesOctober 1995The Internet...
View ArticleFlight Of The Wasp
The Women Airforce Service Pilots seemed strange and exotic to World War II America. In fact, not even the military could quite fiqure out what to do with them.Victoria PopeSpring 2009Curiosity,...
View ArticleSurviving Bataan
After living through America’s worst defeat in World War II and the infamous death march, Army Private Ben Steele started drawing pictures of the images that haunted him.Michael NormanElizabeth M....
View ArticleThe Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
He was a lieutenant in the Army of the United States: he saw no reason to sit in the back of the busJules TygielAugust/september 1984ON JULY 6, 1944, Jackie Robinson, a twenty-five-year-old lieutenant,...
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