Armchair General is proud to host this month’s edition of the Military History Carnival! Although our site is not a blog in the perfect sense, we are glad and thankful to host and share content from all our fellow military historians across the Internet. So, generals, settle yourselves into your favorite armchairs and let the military history reading commence!

Military History

Leading us off this month in general military history topics is a recent post at the Official Osprey Publishing Blog asking Why study military history?, closely followed by More on Military History and Conservative Scholars, a post over at Historicus which ponders much the same question from within the educational realm. In a case of Measuring the Glass Half Full, the Russian Front blog takes on and discounts the belief about "the shrinking pool of true military historians". Mark Stoneman is a European history teacher and pens the Clio and Me blog, and his latest post describes his Stumbling Upon a Dissertation Topic. The Strange Maps blog has a very interesting 1793 map / caricature of John Bull Bombarding France With Bum-Boats, along with a great unique history lesson surrounding it.

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US Military History

Moving into the history of American wars, the American Presidents blog points to an argument from the Center of Military History, and poses the question, is Military Service Instrumental for Presidents? A short but detailed bio on Katherine Prescott Wormeley and her work in the Sanitary Commision during the Civil War can be found over at the Civil War Women blog. The Progressive Historians blog tells the tale of The Red Neck War, a little known skirmish in history that is yet "the largest armed insurrection fought on American soil since the Civil War." The first of two submission this month from The Dougout weblog is a post about U.S. Marines Combined Action Platoons. In another Vietnam era blog post, the Divided We Fall United We Stand blog has posted the third and final article under the Is Iraq like Vietnam? Lessons learned. heading. The Suite 101 site has this post about The Kitty Hawk and India bridging the military history and possible military future of one of America’s naval icons. The Walking the Berkshires blog sent in this excellent post called "This Land is My Land"; The Revolutionary Frontier in Myth and Memory, the "first in a series of 8 posts on Sullivan’s Expedition against the Iroquois during the American Revolution".

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