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Air Transport
John Plating
Subject: Military History »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
Air Transport Introduction The history of military air transport is largely an overlooked field of academic research. Within the field that i...
All-Volunteer Army, Post-Vietnam to Present
Stephen A. Bourque
Subject: Military History »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
All-Volunteer Army, Post-Vietnam to Present Introduction Spanning the end of the Vietnam War and the demise of the draftee army to the closing...
American Colonial Wars
James C. Bradford
Subject: Military History »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
American Colonial Wars Introduction The colonial period of US history was rife with military conflict between European immigrants and Native Am...
American Indian Wars
Robert Wooster
Subject: Military History »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
American Indian Wars Introduction Reflecting the society and culture in which they lived, early writers tended to portray the American Indian w...
American War of Independence
Ricardo A. Herrera
Subject: Military History »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
American War of Independence Introduction What had once been the preserve of popular writers trumpeting American battlefield prowess against Br...
Animals and the Military
Gervase Phillips
Subject: Military History »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
Animals and the Military Introduction Any sustained reading of military history quickly reveals how a general human assumption of dominion over...
Antietam, Battle of
Susannah J. Ural
Subject: Military History »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
Battle of Antietam Introduction The Battle of Antietam—or Sharpsburg, as it was known in the Confederacy—took place on 17 September 1862. On t...
Arab-Israeli Wars, 1948-Present
George L. Simpson
Subject: Military History »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
Arab-Israeli Wars, 1948–Present Introduction The conflict between Jews and Arabs claiming the same land has historically erupted into wars, and...
Arctic Warfare
Adam Lajeunesse
Subject: Military History »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
Arctic Warfare Introduction Warfare in the Arctic has, for the most part, been a historical oddity. The region boasts few significant cities to...
Armed Forces of the Ottoman Empire, 1683-1918
Virginia H. Aksan
Subject: Military History »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Armed Forces of the Ottoman Empire, 1683–1918 Introduction The Ottoman Empire (c. 1300–1918) ruled over most of the territories of what is now...
Armored War
Louis DiMarco
Subject: Military History »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
Armored War Introduction There are various ways to approach an all-encompassing subject such as armored warfare. Few authors treat the subj...
Arms Control and Disarmament
Mark Moyar
Subject: Military History »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
Arms Control and Disarmament Introduction Humans have wielded weapons since the beginning of recorded history, both against other humans and th...
Army, Roman
Christopher J. Fuhrmann
Subject: Military History »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Roman Army Introduction Compared with those who study modern military history, historians of Roman civilization (roughly 500 bce to 500 ce) ha...
Australia from the Colonial Era to the Present
Jeffrey Grey, Craig Stockings
Subject: Military History »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Australia from the Colonial Era to the Present Introduction The global wars of the 20th century have had a defining effect on the course of Au...
Austrian Succession, War of the
Reed S. Browning
Subject: Military History »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
War of the Austrian Succession Introduction Broadly speaking, the War of the Austrian Succession (1740–1748) pitted Austria and Britain agains...
British Armed Forces, from the Glorious Revolution to Present
Ian F. W. Beckett
Subject: Military History »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
British Armed Forces, from the Glorious Revolution to the Present Introduction There has always been a sense in which the British experienc...
British-India Armies from 1740 to 1849
Kaushik Roy
Subject: Military History »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
British-India Armies from 1740 to 1849 Introduction The British, in the guise of East India Company (EIC; also referred to as “the Company”) ca...
Cavalry since 1500
Mark Gerges
Subject: Military History »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
Cavalry Since 1500 Introduction Cavalry, one of the three principle combat branches, has long been known as “the combat arm of decision.” This...
Chinese Civil War, 1945-1949
Harold Tanner
Subject: Military History »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
The Chinese Civil War, 1945–1949 Introduction For the Allies and for Japan itself, the Japanese surrender in August 1945 signaled the arrival o...
Civilians
Adam R. Seipp
Subject: Military History »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
Civilians Introduction The concept of the civilian in wartime as a legal category is fairly new, but the problem is far older. Noncombatants ha...
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