Warfare History NetworkArticles Archive - Warfare History Network https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/issue/military-heritage-fall-2026/ The History of Warfare Delivered Daily Fri, 13 Nov 2026 15:45:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 Castles: The Military Mind in Stone https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/castles-the-military-mind-in-stone/ https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/castles-the-military-mind-in-stone/#respond Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:30:03 +0000 Julian Gnam https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/?post_type=article&p=104433 The history of our civilization is largely the history of military campaigns. We are who we are and think what we think owing to the outcome of battles long ago—and not so long ago. Read more

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After George Washington, Major General Nathanael Greene was the best officer in the Continental Army. When Washington needed a general to rescue the desperate southern situation, he chose the already battle-hardened Quaker from Rhode Island—whose southern campaign was brilliant. Read more

]]> https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/nathanael-greene/feed/ 1 Nancy Wake https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/nancy-wake/ https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/nancy-wake/#respond Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:20:21 +0000 Julian Gnam https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/?post_type=article&p=131026 By Kevin Seabrooke

On the eve of Operation Overlord, members of the French Resistance cut dozens of major long-distance and underground cables the Germans had installed during their occupation of France—forcing them to use radios vulnerable to interception by Allied intelligence—just as they faced the largest amphibious assault in history. Read more

]]> https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/nancy-wake/feed/ 0 Greek Fire https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/greek-fire/ https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/greek-fire/#respond Fri, 08 Mar 2024 15:00:43 +0000 Julian Gnam https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/?post_type=article&p=96527 By Robert Heege

The year was ad 678, 46 years after the death of the prophet Mohammed. Now the Mohammedans, determined to bring the light of Islam to Arabia and beyond, were streaking across the whole of the Middle East like a comet. Read more

]]> https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/greek-fire/feed/ 0 10 Military History Book Reviews for Fall 2026 https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/10-military-history-book-reviews-for-fall-2026/ https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/10-military-history-book-reviews-for-fall-2026/#respond Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:00:52 +0000 Julian Gnam https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/?post_type=article&p=131263 By Kevin Seabrooke Full Reviews

Ortiz’s War: The Allies’ Secret Weapon Against the Nazis in France (Nicholas Reynolds and Katie Sanders, Harper Horizon, Nashville, TN, 304 pp., Read more

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Real-time strategy game Company of Heroes has been celebrating quite the milestone lately, with a full two decades under its belt. Read more

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As bombs rain from the skies and your fellow soldiers both fight and fall to either side, for once it’s not up to you to take the fight back to the enemy. Read more

]]> https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/medic-pacific-war/feed/ 0 Breaching the Gothic Line https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/breaching-the-gothic-line/ https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/breaching-the-gothic-line/#respond Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:50:13 +0000 Julian Gnam https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/?post_type=article&p=131173 By Michael E. Haskew

A last line of defense in Italy was necessary, but for senior German commanders it was unthinkable that it could ever be contested by Allied forces. Read more

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Following the trade route between Alexandria and Istanbul, the heavily-laden merchantman hoped to run the straits between the islands dotting the sea off the coast of Anatolia. Read more

]]> https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/the-sieges-of-rhodes/feed/ 0 Riding with the H Troop ‘Hellraisers’ in Vietnam https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/riding-with-the-h-troop-hellraisers-in-vietnam/ https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/riding-with-the-h-troop-hellraisers-in-vietnam/#comments Sun, 19 Jul 2026 18:38:37 +0000 Julian Gnam https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/?post_type=article&p=131094 By Joshua Donohue

On a humid October day in 1968, U.S. Army Spc. 4th Class Kenneth “Mim” Crowell Jr. walked along a line of M113 armored personnel carriers (APCs) at Landing Zone (LZ) Bayonet in Chu Lai, South Vietnam. Read more

]]> https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/riding-with-the-h-troop-hellraisers-in-vietnam/feed/ 1 “Picket’s Charge of the West” https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/the-battle-of-franklin/ https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/the-battle-of-franklin/#comments Thu, 10 Feb 2000 21:03:19 +0000 Julian Gnam https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/?post_type=article&p=108363 By M. Foster Farley

After defeating the Confederates at Chattanooga, Union Gen. William T. Sherman, in May 1864, with an army of approximately 100,000 men, and using the Western and Atlantic Railroad as his line of supply, began his march to Atlanta. Read more

]]> https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/the-battle-of-franklin/feed/ 1 ‘So They Are NOT Against Us’ https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/so-they-are-not-against-us/ https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/so-they-are-not-against-us/#respond Sun, 19 Jul 2026 18:54:50 +0000 Julian Gnam https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/?post_type=article&p=131112 By Colonel Bernd Horn, Canadian Army (ret.)

The mid-afternoon stillness of the Pennsylvania wilderness was suddenly shattered by a crashing volley of musket fire. Read more

]]> https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/so-they-are-not-against-us/feed/ 0 The Savior of Cumberland Bay https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/the-savior-of-cumberland-bay/ https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/the-savior-of-cumberland-bay/#respond Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:40:33 +0000 Julian Gnam https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/?post_type=article&p=131136 By Chuck Lyons

Four British warships and a dozen gunboats entered the northern end of Lake Champlain in September 1814, sailing down to the generally peaceful Cumberland Bay, where they clashed with American vessels under the command of 30-year-old Master Commandant Thomas Macdonough. Read more

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