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Brazilian Troops and
Airmen in WWII Italy
Turning the Tide in
Hudson Bay, 1697
Charles de Gaulle
in the Crosshairs
Royal Marines vs.
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WINTER 2023
Letters
6
Dispatches
8
Features
24
The Boys
From Brazil
South America’s largest
nation played a vital, if
underappreciated, combat
role in World War II Italy.
By Jerome A. Long
34
Armor vs. Grunts
Recent decades have
witnessed an escalating
technological duel between
tanks and the heretofore
hapless foot soldier.
By Jon Guttman
Departments
14
Interview
Sabin Howard
Figures of War
18
Valor
Three Cheers!
2
MILITARY HISTORY
WINTER 2023
Reviews
70
War Games
78
Captured!
80
40
Kill de Gaulle!
In 1962 a team of would-be
assassins—some of them
Algerian War veterans—lay
in wait for the president’s
convoy in suburban Paris.
By Ron Soodalter
48
The Train Wreckers
Answering the Allied call for
amphibious raiders during the
Korean War, the Royal Marines
of 41 Commando wreaked
havoc behind enemy lines.
By Mark Simner
56
Turning the Tide
in Hudson Bay
In the fall of 1697 a minor
action in the subarctic
shifted the balance of power
in colonial North America.
By Jon Bradley and Sam Allison
62
The Master
of Asia Minor
When strategists praise
the military prowess of the
Roman general Lucullus,
many others wonder,
Who?
By Matthew T. Beazley
20
What We
Learned From...
The Mallian
Campaign,
326–325
BC
22
Hardware
Republic P-47D
Thunderbolt
76
Hallowed
Ground
Upper Germanic-
Rhaetian Limes,
Germany
3
On the cover:
An Iraqi T-72 tank burns after being knocked out during the opening battles of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Modern armored vehicles are increasingly vulnerable to man-portable weapons. (Andy Cross/Denver Post/Getty Images)
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