Military History 2023-Autumn (Vol.40 No.02).pdf

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Fighting for Caves
in Afghanistan
Île aux Noix: The
Key to Canada
The Aegean Islands
No One Needed
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AUTUMN 2023
Letters
6
Dispatches
8
Features
32
Lost in the Caves
In the throes of the Soviet
misadventure in Afghanistan,
Russian troops were drawn
into a futile fight for a sub-
terranean Mujahideen base.
By Michael G. Stroud
24
Churchill’s
‘Landships’
As first lord of the Admiralty
during World War I Winston
Churchill was an early and
key proponent of tanks.
By John Miles
Departments
14
Interview
Elizabeth Cobbs
The ‘Hello Girls’:
A Wartime Calling
18
Valor
Five-Time
Primus Pilus
2
MILITARY HISTORY
AUTUMN 2023
Reviews
72
War Games
78
Captured!
80
50
Special Effects
The surviving personal
effects of some of history’s
great commanders are
almost as recognizable as
the men who wore them.
By Jon Guttman
56
Folly in
the Aegean
In 1943 British dithering
enabled otherwise reeling
German forces to capture
the Dodecanese islands.
By Anthony Rogers
42
The Key
to Canada
In 1760 British adventurers
laid siege to French-held
Île aux Noix on the Richelieu
River approach to Montreal.
By Michael G. Laramie
64
Turning Point on
Lake Maracaibo
In 1823 rival commanders
waged a naval battle to
determine Venezuela’s
fate—if not their own.
By Jerome A. Long
20
What We
Learned From...
The Battle of
Friedland, 1807
22
Hardware
‘Little Willie’
Landship
76
Hallowed
Ground
Lundy’s Lane,
Canada
On the cover:
Winston Churchill was first lord of the Admiralty in World War I when he championed development of tracked precursors
of the modern tank. He dubbed them “landships.” (Bettmann/Getty Images; Universal History Archive/Getty; colorization by Brian Walker)
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