Gervase Phillips, "'To Cry Home! Home!': Mutiny, Morale, and Indiscipline in Tudor Armies," The Journal of Military History 65/2: 313-332.
This article examines the nature of indiscipline in English armies of the sixteenth century, with particular emphasis on the phenomena of mutiny and desertion. It explores the close relationship between military and civilian popular protest, and thus attempts to offer an insight into the politics of class relations within Tudor society. Furthermore, within the specifically military context, the shifting nature of discipline itself is analyzed, from the quasi-feudal armies of Henry VIII through to the militia-based forces of Elizabeth I. The emergence of a disciplinary system based upon the assumption of unquestioning obedience to orders, underpinned by the coercive use of exemplary punishment, is contrasted with older, consensual models, reliant on notions of personal leadership, incentive, and the pursuit of virtú.
Jon Tetsura Sumida, "On the Relationship of History and Theory in On War: The Clausewitzian Ideal and Its Implications," The Journal of Military History 65/2: 333-354.
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David J. Fitzpatrick, "Emory Upton and the Citizen Soldier," The Journal of Military History 65/2: 355-390.
Emory Upton has long been considered to have been the enemy of the citizen soldier and to have advocated the establishment of a large, professional military. According to Russell F. Weigley, Upton thought it "imbecilic" to rely on "mere armed citizens" to defend the nation, and that "to depend on an armed citizenry in war was sheer infatuation, a very invitation to disaster." This essay rejects such an argument. Upton embraced the tradition of the citizen solider. It was only when they were untrained, unprepared, and led by relative amateurs that Upton found militia and volunteer organizations to be objectionable.
Harry A. Jacobs, "Operation Strakonice: In Pursuit of the Soviet Order of Battle," The Journal of Military History 65/2: 391-400.
As the end of World War II in Europe became imminent, Allied officials debated where the U.S. Army should halt in Czechoslovakia. The Line of Demarcation between the Western Allied and Soviet forces was ultimately established west of Prague, assigning its liberation to the Soviets. On 10 May 1945, an intelligence team with the 4th Armored Division of the U.S. Third Army was ordered to cross the line, locate the last remaining German Army Group headquarters on the Eastern Front, seize German intelligence data on the Soviet Army, and bring it back to U.S.-held territory. The records captured by the successful mission became a valuable intelligence resource in the postwar period.
David M. Witty, "A Regular Army in Counterinsurgency Operations: Egypt in North Yemen, 19621967," The Journal of Military History 65/2: 401-440.
In 1962, the Egyptian army intervened in a civil war in North Yemen to protect the country's newly established revolutionary government against opponents who were seeking to reinstate the country's traditional regime. The Egyptians expected to achieve their goal quickly but instead found themselves fighting tribal insurgents in a war that they neither were prepared for nor understood. Five years later, when the Egyptians were forced to withdraw from Yemen as a result of their defeat by Israel in the Six-Day War, they appeared no closer to victory than they had been in 1962. The Egyptian army's performance in Yemen illustrates the problems that challenge regular armies in counterinsurgency operations.
John France, "Recent Writing on Medieval Warfare: From the Fall of Rome to c. 1300," The Journal of Military History 65/2: 441-473.
This paper surveys writing about medieval warfare in the period from the Fall of the Western Empire to circa 1300. The author argues that the later period from c. 1300 to 1500 has been intensively examined and that this much longer period has, until recently, been neglected. The article is mainly about works produced in the last twenty-five years, but looks at older material in order to explain the development of the subject.