FEATURES
"The Etiquette of Atrocity" — A noted historian argues that the basic conventions of restraint in war have not changed for centuries. It is the degree and extant of their enforcement that is different.
"Flooding 'em Back to the Stone Age?" — sidebar
"Marston Moor" — One wet summer afternoon in 1644, Royalists and Roundheads met in the bloodiest clash ever fought on British soil.
"Marston Moor Today" — sidebar
"Villainous Saltpetre" — sidebar
"Pacifist at War" — A philosophical opponent of war, Thomas Jefferson spent much of his two terms as governor of Virginia trying to manage one. The bitter lessons of military management that he learned were not lost on the future president.
"A Prisoner of War" — sidebar
"Brother Jan Žižka's Wagon-Fort Strategy" — A fifteenth-century Czech general, heading a vastly outnumbered army of "heretics," beat back wave after wave of crusaders with an innovative weapon: a "Tank," medieval-style.
"Sitting Bull" — In his struggle against the white westward movement, his inflexibility served him well; in the end, it cost him his life. The Little Bighorn was only one of his finest moments.
"The Antagonists of Little Round Top" — The victor has been lionized by history, the other man, all but forgotten. Their two versions of the story are told here.
"The Victor" — A professor of oratory and sometime preacher, Joshua L. Chamberlain of Maine became one of the best-known heroes of the Civil War. His defense of Little Round Top on the second day of Gettysburg was arguably the turning point of the battle.
"The Other Man" — William C. Oates of Alabama led the tired, thirsty Confederates at the bottom of the hill. Glory eluded him, but by the smallest of margins.
"A Monumental Uproar" — sidebar
"Fertile Blood" — Medical progress, bought at enormous cost of human lives, may be the most lasting benefit of war. No battlefield contribution to healing has been more important than blood transfusion.
"Murders of Koje-do!" — In 1952, Communist POWs in a camp off the coast of South Korea staged a rebellion designed to be a worldwide political embarrassment for their captors.
"We Were So Naive" — sidebar
"What Philip Wrought" — The military reforms of Alexander the Great's father transformed a backward Balkan kingdom into a power in the ancient world.
DEPARTMENTS
"Tactical Exercises: Penetration Attacks" — The violent and unexpected use of maximum power at a single point in a defender's line can quickly turn an advantage.
"Experience of War: Secret Mission to Tokyo" — In 1942, an Italian air crew, flying over enemy territory and the unmapped hinterlands of Asia, carried codes from Rome to Tokyo—and then returned by the same perilous route.
"Fighting Words: Terms from Military History" — A new column traces the military origin of some of our most common words and phrases.