The Journal of Military History

Prize-winning articles

Articles in the Journal recognised by the Society's Vandervort Prize, formerly the Moncado Prize, since 1990.

136 articles. The prize also recognises articles published in other journals; the full list, the nomination process and the story of the prize are on the Vandervort Prize page.

2026

  1. The Invention of the Kamikaze: Dissent and Resistance in the Japanese Military

    924–952

    Vol. 89, No. 4, October 2025Vandervort Prize 2026

  2. ’Lest it be conquered by the wind’: The early evolution of VOC fortifications on Dutch Formosa (c. 1620–1650)

    281–306

    and Vol. 89, No. 2, April 2025Vandervort Prize 2026

2025

  1. A Successful Strategy: The Failure to Punish Italian War Criminals and the Creation of a Self-absolving Memory

    398–425

    Vol. 88, No. 2, April 2024Vandervort Prize 2025

  2. Rescuing Heritage from Humiliation: The Navalist Reinterpretation of the Sino-French and Sino-Japanese Wars

    923–948

    Vol. 88, No. 4, October 2024Vandervort Prize 2025

2024

  1. From Mobile Fleet to Mobile Force: The Evolution of U.S. Navy Logistics in the Central Pacific during World War II

    367–403

    Vol. 87, No. 2, April 2023Vandervort Prize 2024

  2. ’The Great Doctrine Disaster’: Reform, Reaction, and Mechanization in the British Army, 1919–1939

    599–632

    Vol. 87, No. 3, July 2023Vandervort Prize 2024

2023

  1. Logistics of U. S. Grant’s 1863 Mississippi Campaign: From the Amphibious Landing at Bruinsburg to the Siege of Vicksburg

    573–611

    Vol. 86, No. 3, July 2022Vandervort Prize 2023

  2. The ’Push of Pike’ in Seventeenth-Century English Infantry Combat

    837–857

    Vol. 86, No. 4, October 2022Vandervort Prize 2023

2022

  1. Warriors Who Don’t Fight: The Post–Cold War United States Army and Debates over Peacekeeping Operations

    163–190

    Vol. 85, No. 1, January 2021Vandervort Prize 2022

  2. ’This Degrading Slavery’: MacArthur’s General Headquarters and Prostitution Policy during the Occupation of Japan

    678–712

    Vol. 85, No. 3, July 2021Vandervort Prize 2022

2021

  1. The Survival of Auftragstaktik during the Soviet Counterattack in the Battle for Moscow, December 1941 to January 1942

    187–212

    Vol. 84, No. 1, January 2020Vandervort Prize 2021

  2. Failing to Speak the Same Language: The Roots of ’Jointness’ in the United States, 1919–1941

    1097–1126

    Vol. 84, No. 4, October 2020Vandervort Prize 2021

2020

  1. Avast Swabbing! The Medical Campaign to Reform Swabbing the Decks in the U.S. Navy

    127–156

    Vol. 83, No. 1, January 2019Vandervort Prize 2020

  2. Older German Officers and National Socialist Activism: Evidence from the German Volkssturm

    455–485

    Vol. 83, No. 2, April 2019Vandervort Prize 2020

  3. Decimation and Unit Cohesion: Why Were Roman Legionaries Willing to Perform Decimation?

    665–688

    Vol. 83, No. 3, July 2019Vandervort Prize 2020

  4. ’Clouds Gathering on the Horizon’: The Russian Army and the Preparation of the Imperial Population for War, 1906–1914

    1133–1160

    Vol. 83, No. 4, October 2019Vandervort Prize 2020

2019

  1. Mapping the First World War: The Empowering Development of Mapmaking during the First World War in the British Army

    45–66

    Vol. 82, No. 1, January 2018Moncado Prize 2019

  2. Unintended Consequences: Baton Rounds, Riots, and Counterinsurgency in Northern Ireland, 1970–1981

    491–514

    Vol. 82, No. 2, April 2018Moncado Prize 2019

  3. The Mufti’s Men: Haj Amin al-Husayni and SS Parachute Expeditions to Palestine and Iraq, 1944–1945

    783–815

    Vol. 82, No. 3, July 2018Moncado Prize 2019

  4. The War of the Pacific, Technology and U.S. Naval Development: An International History of Regional War

    1093–1122

    Vol. 82, No. 4, October 2018Moncado Prize 2019

2018

  1. Fight or Flight: Desertion, Defection, and Draft-Dodging in Occupied Slovenia, 1941–1945

    133–162

    Vol. 81, No. 1, January 2017Moncado Prize 2018

  2. The School of Experience: George W. Goethals and the U.S. Army, 1876–1907

    395–424

    Vol. 81, No. 2, April 2017Moncado Prize 2018

  3. Holy War and Just War in Early New England, 1630–1655

    667–692

    Vol. 81, No. 3, July 2017Moncado Prize 2018

  4. Coco Solo Submarines: Protecting the Panama Canal, 1941–1942

    1039–1057

    Vol. 81, No. 4, October 2017Moncado Prize 2018

2017

  1. 1814 and the Melancholy of War

    31–55

    Vol. 80, No. 1, January 2016Moncado Prize 2017

  2. Fighting Under a Different Flag: Multinational Naval Cooperation and Submarine Warfare in the Mediterranean, 1940–1944

    447–476

    Vol. 80, No. 2, April 2016Moncado Prize 2017

  3. Battling Bolshevik Bogeymen: Spain’s Cordon Sanitaire against Revolution from a European Perspective, 1917–1923

    725–755

    Vol. 80, No. 3, July 2016Moncado Prize 2017

  4. ’An Exodus to Nowhere’?: Victorio’s Tres Castillos Campaign, September–October 1880

    1037–1072

    Vol. 80, No. 4, October 2016Moncado Prize 2017

2016

  1. ’[T]he zealous activity of Capt. Lee’: Light-Horse Harry Lee and Petite Guerre

    9–36

    Vol. 79, No. 1, January 2015Moncado Prize 2016

  2. The Other Clausewitz: Findings from the Newly Discovered Correspondence between Marie and Carl von Clausewitz

    345–367

    Vol. 79, No. 2, April 2015Moncado Prize 2016

  3. Manifesting Awe: Grand Strategy and Imperial Leadership in the Ming Dynasty

    597–634

    Vol. 79, No. 3, July 2015Moncado Prize 2016

  4. General Ferdinand Foch and Unified Allied Command in 1918

    997–1023

    Vol. 79, No. 4, October 2015Moncado Prize 2016

2015

  1. Technological Adaptation in a Global Conflict: The British Army and Communications beyond the Western Front, 1914–1918

    37–71

    Vol. 78, No. 1, January 2014Moncado Prize 2015

  2. Freedom and Subordination: Disciplinary Problems in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812

    537–574

    Vol. 78, No. 2, April 2014Moncado Prize 2015

  3. The Greek Civil War: A National Army’s Counter-insurgency Triumph

    1017–1055

    Vol. 78, No. 3, July 2014Moncado Prize 2015

  4. No “Technical Knockout”: Giap’s Artillery at Dien Bien Phu

    1349–1383

    Vol. 78, No. 4, October 2014Moncado Prize 2015

2014

  1. The French Battle for Vimy Ridge, Spring 1915

    91–113

    Vol. 77, No. 1, January 2013Moncado Prize 2014

  2. Special Weapon, Special Relationship: The Atomic Bomb Comes to Britain

    569–598

    Vol. 77, No. 2, April 2013Moncado Prize 2014

  3. Defining Victory in Victorian Warfare, 1860–1882

    895–929

    Vol. 77, No. 3, July 2013Moncado Prize 2014

  4. Naturally Clausewitzian: U.S. Army Theory and Education from Reconstruction to the Interwar Years

    Vol. 77, No. 4, October 2013Moncado Prize 2014

2013

  1. Diplomats as Spymasters: A Case Study of the Peninsular War, 1809–1813

    37–68

    Vol. 76, No. 1, January 2012Moncado Prize 2013

  2. Black and White Memories of War: Victimization and Violence in West German War Films of the 1950s

    159–191

    Vol. 76, No. 1, January 2012Moncado Prize 2013

  3. The Role of Commoners and Print in Elizabethan England’s Acceptance of Firearms

    343–372

    Vol. 76, No. 2, April 2012Moncado Prize 2013

  4. Misreading Svechin: Attrition, Annihilation, and Historicism

    673–693

    Vol. 76, No. 3, July 2012Moncado Prize 2013

  5. Why the White House Was Burned: An Investigation into the British Destruction of Public Buildings at Washington in August 1814

    1095–1127

    Vol. 76, No. 4, October 2012Moncado Prize 2013

2012

  1. The Battle of Forbie and the Second Frankish Kingdom of Jerusalem

    9–44

    Vol. 75, No. 1, January 2011Moncado Prize 2012

  2. Learning War’s Lessons: The German Army and the Battle of the Somme 1916

    471–504

    Vol. 75, No. 2, April 2011Moncado Prize 2012

  3. Terror in the Army: Representatives on Mission and Military Discipline in the Armies of the French Revolution

    733–768

    Vol. 75, No. 3, July 2011Moncado Prize 2012

  4. Bilko’s Army: A Crisis in Command?

    1183–1215

    Vol. 75, No. 4, October 2011Moncado Prize 2012

2011

  1. Armchairs, Coffee, and Authority: Eye-witnesses and Flesh-witnesses Speak about War, 1100–2000

    53–78

    Vol. 74, No. 1, January 2010Moncado Prize 2011

  2. Stopping the Panzers: Reassessing the Role of 3rd Canadian Infantry Division in Normandy, 7-10 June 1944

    491–522

    Vol. 74, No. 2, April 2010Moncado Prize 2011

  3. Anglo-American Strategic Relations and Intelligence Assessments of Japanese Air Power 1934–1941

    737–773

    Vol. 74, No. 3, July 2010Moncado Prize 2011

  4. The U. S. Navy General Board and Naval Arms Limitation: 1922–1937

    1129–1160

    Vol. 74, No. 4, October 2010Moncado Prize 2011

2010

  1. War Feeding War? The Impact of Logistics on the Napoleonic Occupation of Catalonia

    83–116

    Vol. 73, No. 1, January 2009Moncado Prize 2010

  2. A New Paradigm for an Old Conflict: The Mexico-United States War

    393–416

    Vol. 73, No. 2, April 2009Moncado Prize 2010

  3. Michael Howard and the Evolution of Modern War Studies

    869–904

    Vol. 73, No. 3, July 2009Moncado Prize 2010

  4. The Red Queen’s Race: Operation Washington Green and Pacification in Binh Dinh Province, 1969–70

    1195–1230

    Vol. 73, No. 4, October 2009Moncado Prize 2010

2009

  1. Recovering the Korean War Dead, 1950-1958: Graves Registration, Forensic Anthropology, and Wartime Memorialization

    179–222

    Vol. 72, No. 1, January 2008Moncado Prize 2009

  2. Across the Yalu: Rules of Engagement and the Communist Air Sanctuary during the Korea War

    451–475

    Vol. 72, No. 2, April 2008Moncado Prize 2009

  3. Zhao Chongguo: A Professional Soldier of the Former Han Dynasty

    665–725

    Vol. 72, No. 3, July 2008Moncado Prize 2009

  4. PROVN, Westmoreland, and the Historians: A Reappraisal

    1213–1247

    Vol. 72, No. 4, October 2008Moncado Prize 2009

2008

  1. The Defense of the Crown of Aragon during the War of the Two Pedros (1356-1366)

    11–36

    Vol. 71, No. 1, January 2007Moncado Prize 2008

  2. Strategic Geography and the Spanish Habsburg Monarchy's Failure to Recover Portugal, 1640-1668

    373–410

    Vol. 71, No. 2, April 2007Moncado Prize 2008

  3. The French and the British Field Force: Moral Support or Material Contribution?

    743–772

    and Vol. 71, No. 3, July 2007Moncado Prize 2008

  4. The Past in the Present: Passion, Politics, and the Historical Profession in the German and British Pardon Campaigns

    1107–1132

    Vol. 71, No. 4, October 2007Moncado Prize 2008

2007

  1. Dying with Honour: Literary Propaganda and the Second English Civil War

    9–30

    Vol. 70, No. 1, January 2006Moncado Prize 2007

  2. The New Deal for Veterans: The Economy Act, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the Origins of New Deal Dissent

    415–438

    Vol. 70, No. 2, April 2006Moncado Prize 2007

  3. The Politics of Surrender: Canadian Soldiers and the Killing of Prisoners in the Great War

    637–665

    Vol. 70, No. 3, July 2006Moncado Prize 2007

  4. Prince Eugene of Savoy, the Toulon Expedition of 1707, and the English Historians-A Dissenting View

    939–962

    Vol. 70, No. 4, October 2006Moncado Prize 2007

2006

  1. Crouching Tigers, Secret Weapons: Military Technology Employed During the Sino-Japanese-Korean War, 1592-1598

    11–41

    Vol. 69, No. 1, January 2005Moncado Prize 2006

  2. Strategic Command and Control for Maneuver Warfare: Creation of the Royal Navy's "War Room" System, 1905-1915

    361–410

    Vol. 69, No. 2, April 2005Moncado Prize 2006

  3. Military Synthesis in South Asia: Armies, Warfare and Indian Society, c. 1740-1849

    651–690

    Vol. 69, No. 3, July 2005Moncado Prize 2006

  4. Ship-of-the-Line or Atlantic Raider? Battleship Bismarck Between Design Limitations and Naval Strategy

    1013–1044

    Vol. 69, No. 4, October 2005Moncado Prize 2006

2005

  1. Language at War: U.S. Marine Corps Japanese Language Officers in the Pacific War

    853–883

    Vol. 68, No. 3, July 2004Moncado Prize 2005

  2. Breaking the Cycle of Iwo Jima Mythology: A Strategic Study of Operation Detachment

    1143–1186

    Vol. 68, No. 4, October 2004Moncado Prize 2005

  3. Field Officer Courts and U.S. Civil War Military Justice

    47–72

    Vol. 68, No. 1, January 2004Moncado Prize 2005

  4. Asymmetric Warfare: The British Experience in Eighteenth-Century India

    431–469

    Vol. 68, No. 2, April 2004Moncado Prize 2005

2004

  1. From Berlin to Leipzig: Napoleon's Gamble in North Germany, 1813

    39–84

    Vol. 67, No. 1, January 2003Moncado Prize 2004

  2. French Strategy in 1914: Joffreis Own

    427–454

    Vol. 67, No. 2, April 2003Moncado Prize 2004

  3. Classical Blitzkrieg: The Untimely Modernity of Schlieffen's Cannae Programme

    745–771

    Vol. 67, No. 3, July 2003Moncado Prize 2004

  4. A Matter of Timing: The Royal Navy and the Tactics of Decisive Battle, 1912-1916

    85–136

    Vol. 67, No. 1, January 2003Moncado Prize 2004

2003

  1. Strategy, Tactics, and Turf Wars: Tirpitz and the Oberkommando der Marine, 1892-1895

    1033–1060

    Vol. 66, No. 4, October 2002Moncado Prize 2003

  2. "The American Way of War" Revisited

    501–534

    and Vol. 66, No. 2, April 2002Moncado Prize 2003

  3. Red Army Professionalism and the Communist Party, 1918-1941

    71–102

    Vol. 66, No. 1, January 2002Moncado Prize 2003

  4. "It Made a Lot of Sense to Kill Skilled Workers": The Firebombing of Tokyo in March 1945

    103–134

    Vol. 66, No. 1, January 2002Moncado Prize 2003

2002

  1. Emory Upton and the Citizen Soldier

    355–390

    Vol. 65, No. 2, April 2001Moncado Prize 2002

  2. Fighting for the Heavens from the Ground: German Ground-Based Air Defenses in the Great War, 1914-1918

    641–670

    Vol. 65, No. 3, July 2001Moncado Prize 2002

  3. Ernest King and the British Pacific Fleet: The Conference at Quebec, 1944 ("Octagon")

    105–130

    Vol. 65, No. 1, January 2001Moncado Prize 2002

  4. Matelots, Martinets, and Mutineers: The Mutiny in HMCS Iroquois, 19 July 1943

    77–104

    Vol. 65, No. 1, January 2001Moncado Prize 2002

2001

  1. An Imperial Home-Front: Punjab and the First World War

    371–410

    Vol. 64, No. 2, April 2000Moncado Prize 2001

  2. Shaping the Past Battlefield, "For the Future": The United States Strategic Bombing Survey's Evaluation of the American Air War against Japan

    1085–1112

    Vol. 64, No. 4, October 2000Moncado Prize 2001

  3. Toward an American Philosophy of Command

    1035–1060

    Vol. 64, No. 4, October 2000Moncado Prize 2001

2000

  1. From Assaye to the Assaye: Reflections on British Government, Force, and Moral Authority in India

    643–668

    Vol. 63, No. 3, July 1999Moncado Prize 2000

  2. Fighter Defence before Fighter Command: The Rise of Strategic Air Defence in Great Britain, 1917-1934

    845–884

    Vol. 63, No. 4, October 1999Moncado Prize 2000

  3. The Challenge of Modernization: The Royal Canadian Navy and Antisubmarine Weapons, 1944-1945

    355–378

    Vol. 63, No. 2, April 1999Moncado Prize 2000

  4. Raiding the Beggar's Pantry: The Search for Airpower Strategy in the Korean War

    885–920

    Vol. 63, No. 4, October 1999Moncado Prize 2000

1999

  1. "Our Bloody Ships" or "Our Bloody System"? Jutland and the Loss of the Battle Cruisers, 1916

    29–56

    Vol. 62, No. 1, January 1998Moncado Prize 1999

  2. The Rise and Fall of the Office of Naval Intelligence, 1882-1892: A Technological Perspective

    291–312

    Vol. 62, No. 2, April 1998Moncado Prize 1999

  3. China and the Air War in Korea, 1950-1953

    335–370

    Vol. 62, No. 2, April 1998Moncado Prize 1999

  4. Preserving the "Habits and Usages of War": William Tecumseh Sherman, Professional Reform, and the U.S. Army Officer Corps, 1865-1881, Revisited

    521–546

    Vol. 62, No. 3, July 1998Moncado Prize 1999

1998

  1. The Paradox of Professionalism: Eisenhower, Ridgway, and the Challenge to Civilian Control, 1953-1955

    303–334

    Vol. 61, No. 2, April 1997Moncado Prize 1998

  2. The "Long Pull" Army: NSC 68, the Korean War, and the Creation of the Cold War U.S. Army

    93–120

    Vol. 61, No. 1, January 1997Moncado Prize 1998

  3. Casualty Projections for the U.S. Invasions of Japan, 1945-1946: Planning and Policy Implications

    521–582

    Vol. 61, No. 3, July 1997Moncado Prize 1998

  4. "The Soul's Right Hand": Command and Control in the Age of Fighting Sail, 1652-1827

    679–706

    Vol. 61, No. 4, October 1997Moncado Prize 1998

1997

  1. General Staff Historian Hugo Freiherr von Freytag-Loringhoven and the Dialectics of German Military Thought

    471–494

    Vol. 60, No. 3, July 1996Moncado Prize 1997

  2. Trenchard and "Morale Bombing": The Evolution of Royal Air Force Doctrine Before World War II

    243–270

    Vol. 60, No. 2, April 1996Moncado Prize 1997

  3. Kadesh Revisited: Reconstructing the Battle Between the Egyptians and the Hittites

    423–444

    Vol. 60, No. 3, July 1996Moncado Prize 1997

  4. The Vietnam War, 1964-1969: A Chinese Perspective

    731–762

    Vol. 60, No. 4, October 1996Moncado Prize 1997

1996

  1. Schlichting, Schlieffen, and the Prussian Theory of War in 1914

    257–278

    Vol. 59, No. 2, April 1995Moncado Prize 1996

  2. Admiral Sir John Fisher and the Concept of Flotilla Defence, 1904-1909

    639–660

    Vol. 59, No. 4, October 1995Moncado Prize 1996

  3. Sir John Fisher and the Dreadnought: The Sources of Naval Mythology

    619–638

    Vol. 59, No. 4, October 1995Moncado Prize 1996

  4. An "Army of Pigs": The Technical, Social, and Political Bases of Austrian Shock Tactics, 1859-1866

    407–434

    Vol. 59, No. 3, July 1995Moncado Prize 1996

1995

  1. Pinpointing Devastation: American Air Campaign Planning before Pearl Harbor

    75–102

    Vol. 58, No. 1, January 1994Moncado Prize 1995

  2. The American 15th Infantry Regiment in China, 1912-1938: A Vignette in Social History

    57–74

    Vol. 58, No. 1, January 1994Moncado Prize 1995

  3. Leavenworth and Its Critics: The U.S. Army Command and General Staff School, 1920-1940

    199–232

    Vol. 58, No. 2, April 1994Moncado Prize 1995

  4. The Militarization of the Elizabethan State

    391–420

    Vol. 58, No. 3, July 1994Moncado Prize 1995

1994

  1. Women in Combat: The World War II Experience in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and the Soviet Union

    301–323

    Vol. 57, No. 2, April 1993Moncado Prize 1994

  2. The Military Revolutions of the Hundred Years' War

    241–278

    Vol. 57, No. 2, April 1993Moncado Prize 1994

  3. British Naval Operational Logistics, 1914-1918

    447–480

    Vol. 57, No. 3, July 1993Moncado Prize 1994

  4. Methodological Limits and the Mirage of Roman Strategy: Part I

    7–42

    Vol. 57, No. 1, January 1993Moncado Prize 1994

1993

  1. The "Greatest Patron of Science"?: The Navy-Academic Alliance and U.S. Naval Research, 1896-1923

    7–34

    Vol. 56, No. 1, January 1992Moncado Prize 1993

  2. The Battle of the Belgian Plain, 12-14 May 1940: The First Great Tank Battle

    207–244

    Vol. 56, No. 2, April 1992Moncado Prize 1993

  3. Recipe for Failure: Major General Edward M. Almond and Preparation of the U.S. 92d Infantry Division for Combat in World War II

    473–488

    Vol. 56, No. 3, July 1992Moncado Prize 1993

  4. Strategy, Tactics, and the Politics of Penury: The Austro-Hungarian Navy and the Jeune Ecole

    587–602

    Vol. 56, No. 4, October 1992Moncado Prize 1993

1992

  1. The General and the Subcommittee: Congress and U. S. Army Air Corps Chief Benjamin Foulois, 1934-35

    487–506

    Vol. 55, No. 4, October 1991Moncado Prize 1992

  2. The Disciplinary Dilemma of French Military Justice, September 1914-April 1917: The Case of the 5e Division d'Infanterie

    47–68

    Vol. 55, No. 1, January 1991Moncado Prize 1992

  3. The Military Justice System and the Use of Illegal Punishments as Causes of Desertion in the U. S. Army, 1821-1835

    1–20

    Vol. 55, No. 1, January 1991Moncado Prize 1992

  4. The Creation and Evolution of the Army Corps in the American Civil War

    21–46

    Vol. 55, No. 1, January 1991Moncado Prize 1992

1991

  1. "They Either Need These Women or They Do Not": Margaret Chase Smith and the Fight for Regular Status for Women in the Military

    47–78

    Vol. 54, No. 1, January 1990Moncado Prize 1991

  2. War-Winning Weapons: The Measurement of Technological Determinism in Military History

    403–434

    Vol. 54, No. 4, October 1990Moncado Prize 1991

  3. George Owen Squier and the Origins of American Military Aviation

    281–306

    Vol. 54, No. 3, July 1990Moncado Prize 1991

  4. Social Roots of the American Military Profession: The Officer Corps of America's First Peacetime Army, 1784-1789

    435–452

    Vol. 54, No. 4, October 1990Moncado Prize 1991

1990

  1. Jean-Jacques Pelet: Warrior of the Sword and Pen

    1–22

    Vol. 53, No. 1, January 1989Moncado Prize 1990

  2. The Austro-Hungarian Campaign Against Serbia in 1914

    127–146

    Vol. 53, No. 2, April 1989Moncado Prize 1990

  3. United States Army World War II Corps Commanders: A Composite Biography

    147–168

    Vol. 53, No. 2, April 1989Moncado Prize 1990

  4. Military Power

    239–256

    Vol. 53, No. 3, July 1989Moncado Prize 1990