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Welcome to the Military historiography task force. If you have any questions about articles or are generally seeking advice, you're encouraged to ask at the main military history talk page, or you can directly approach one of the task force participants below. The coordinators of the Military history WikiProject can be contacted here. Scope This task force covers topics related to military historiography; its primary work is concentrated on military historians and their theories and works. Any article related to this task force should be marked by adding Historiography-task-force=yes or Historiography=y to the {{WPMILHIST}} project banner at the top of its talk page (see the project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax). This will automatically place it into Category:Military historiography task force articles.

Participants

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1. BusterD (talk · contribs) (liaison with Military Science task force, interested in all times and locations)
2. rjensen (talk · contribs) (War since Napoleon; WW1, WW2, Cold War, US Revolution, Civil War; Vietnam)

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Article statistics

The table to the right shows the current article assessment statistics for this task force. A list of the top 500 most popular articles within our scope, as well as the number of page views each article received over the past month, can be found here. With most of our articles assessed as Stub- or Start-Class, there's a lot of work to be done. However, we also have a number of good, A-Class, and featured articles, which have been assessed as amongst the best Wikipedia has to offer. These article serve as a yardstick for what can be achieved and should be aimed for, and can provide ideas about how to write an article and what sources to consult; they are listed below: Featured articles Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Choe Bu Len Deighton Rupert Downes Radoje Pajović Smyth Report James Tod Jozo Tomasevich John Treloar (museum administrator) Giovanni Villani William of Tyre Featured lists List of United States Army campaigns during World War II A-Class articles Milorad Ekmečić Howard Kippenberger Good articles Lorna Arnold Background of the Winter War Bede British Alpine Hannibal Expedition The Defence of Duffer's Drift Frederick H. Dyer Ian Eaves Educating the Disfranchised and Disinherited Peter Edwards (historian) William Henry Egle Milorad Ekmečić Encyclopedia of the Central Intelligence Agency A Glimpse of Hell (book) The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763–1789 A Glorious Way to Die Margaret Gowing Ikuhiko Hata The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia (book) David Irving Howard Kippenberger Ernst Klink Helmut Krausnick The Last Hurrah: Sterling Price's Missouri Expedition of 1864 Making a New World Maurice (emperor) Geoffrey P. Megargee Military dictatorship Usama ibn Munqidh The Myth of the Eastern Front Myth of the clean Wehrmacht Panzer Aces William H. Prescott Price's Lost Campaign: The 1864 Invasion of Missouri The Rape of Nanking (book) Rommel myth Malcolm Ross (journalist) Gunther E. Rothenberg Felix Römer Shenandoah 1862 Ronald Smelser Hugh Stewart (classical scholar) Stonewall Jackson's arm Tolkien and the Great War The Utility of Force Vindolanda tablets Fred Waite (politician) Wolfram Wette Wooden Leg: A Warrior Who Fought Custer World War II

Military historiography task force assessment statistics Articles Lists FA 11 FL 1 A 2 AL 0 GA 46     B 137 BL 2 C 354 CL 11 Start 748 List 37 Stub 173     Total 1,471 Total 51 Other pages Category 146 Disambig 1 Draft 1 File 4 Portal 0 Project 2 Redirect 38 SIA 1 Template 8 User 0 Total 201 Unassessed 0 Statistics ω 6,934 Ω 4.556 category

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John Keegan

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Winfried Heinemann • Harald Potempa • John Zimmermann (historian) • Christian Streit • Klaus A. Maier • Horst Rohde • Hans Umbreit • Bernhard R. Kroener • Reinhard Stumpf (historian) • Ralf Blank • Bernhard Chiari • Tobias Jersak • Armin Nolzen

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Charles Oman • Paolo Giovio • Martin Du Bellay • Stephen Turnbull • Omer Bartov

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Andreas Hillgruber

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Frontinus

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Category:Military historians Alfred Thayer Mahan

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Proposed deletions

• 03 Nov 2025 – Dirk Boonstra (resistance fighter, born 1920) (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Donner60 (t · c) was deleted

Requested moves

• 19 Oct 2025 – Knowledge of the Holocaust in Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Knowledge of the Holocaust in Nazi Europe by Wolfdog (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 10 Aug 2025 – Strategy and tactics of guerrilla warfare (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Guerrilla warfare by Rosguill (t · c); see discussion

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