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How the foresight and tactical brilliance of Marine Maj. Gen. O.P. Smith saved his division from annihilation in North Korea. One of the little-known aspects of the Chosin Reservoir campaign was that Maj. Gen. Oliver P. Smith, the commander of the Marines there, was far more of a “George Marshall man” than were the Army …
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MacArthur and the Liberation of Manila, 1945Is MacArthur to blame for the bloodbath that destroyed the Philippine capital? By March 3, 1945, after a month of the worst urban combat in World War II’s Pacific Theater, Manila –… Read MoreFrench Poilus, 1914-18France’s World War I infantrymen bore the brunt of Allied fighting in horrific Western Front trench warfare. “Poilu” (“hairy one”), the nickname for a French army infantryman, date… Read MoreThe Cimbrian War, 113-101 B.C.Roman victory marked the beginning of the end for Rome as a republic. For a third of a century after Rome destroyed Carthage in 146 B.C., it faced no seriously threatening enemies … Read MoreTen Questions: Joe BellinoEditor’s Note: Our January 2014 issue featured an interview with Pete Dawkins, West Point’s soldier-scholar-athlete who won the 1958 Heisman Trophy. This issue we give the Naval Ac… Read MoreDispatches- Armchair General March 2014Former Army Captain Receives Medal of Honor President Barack Obama presented the Medal of Honor, America’s highest valor award, to former U.S. Army Captain William D. Swenson at a … Read More
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