Welcome to the Military Magazine website.
Military is a monthly history publication written by
the men and women who were there; in essence an oral account
in print in the words of those who served. Unlike most
military history chronicles, Military encourages the subscribers
to become involved in what is published. Most of the articles
are first-hand experiences of the subscribers during World
War II, Korea, Viet-Nam, the Cold War and Gulf War; all
U.S. military services.
Aside from articles about their military service, subscribers
have an opportunity to see their names in print reviewing
a book on military history provided by Military, or in
the letters to the editor (Intercom) section. On
more detailed matters concerning national events the Sound
Off section provides a forum for the subscriber who
is a strategist. Each month in Back Then we print
one or more of those old photos of you and your buddies
that you have in that old foot locker. There is even a
chance to win a one year subscription with a short military
humor piece each month.
From the front page on, it's a publication for and about
those who wore the uniform, because most of our cover
photos are subscriber submissions. We feel Military is
your magazine and once you become a subscriber we seek
your input. Let the other publications be written by military
history professors and statesmen, this one is for the
grunts, the deckhands and air crews.
 This
is the Publisher’s Log from the very first issue of
Military magazine on 6 June 1984:
Welcome to the first issue of Military History Review.
This publication came about because I was angry. Just like
you, I'm very interested in military history, but one has
to go to several bookstores all over town to find but a
small part of what is available. The book review sections
of the newspapers seem to pay scant attention to the subject.
I had complained about that for many years. My friend,
George Shulsky (a dealer in rare and out-of-print books),
said, on 23 February, "Well, why don't you start a
publication that would let people know what there is in
the field." And he outlined what such a publication
would be like.
He had a great idea. In other fields of my interests (short-wave
radio and photography), there are several magazines that
inform one about the equipment, and the advertisers make
it possible to order everything you could want without ever
leaving your home.
So now I've started another periodical about an interest
field of mine. for the past 13 years I've been publisher
of Worldradio and also for the past eight years have been
publisher of International Travel News.
I gathered a group of my friends (all also deeply interested
in the subject), we dug into our pockets and here you have
what we call, for short MHR. And George Shulsky will serve
as editor.
The people behind MHR have experiences in WWII, Korea and
Viet-Nam.
Now I should tell you that this publishing venture does
not come to you from some towering skyscraper overlooking
Madison Avenue, and that is its great virtue. All of us
involved do something else (for example, Bill Bennett is
a travel agent, Bill Dunning is a high school teacher, etc.)
We are not depending on MHR for the daily bread for our
families. We are doing this because we want to.
Also, quite different than other magazines, we are not
sending out those letters you get, describing in glowing
terms a magazine and asking you to subscribe. Like you,
I've seen that the magazines never live up to the description.
So, we decided to instead send out the magazine itself and
let you make your judgement that way. And, we're. not going
to insult your intelligence by making a "half-price"
offer. When magazines offer everybody "half-price"
that, indeed, is the actual price and what they need in
order to produce the magazine.
We think that nine dollars a year is a fair and reasonable
price, and, as we gain more subscribers and more advertisers
we expect to increase the number of pages of reading matter
you get each month.
Quickly I'd like to tell you what MHR is, and what it isn't.
None of us will sign articles with our former ranks in the
military. This is not a publication for children (of all
ages), armchair adventurers, vicarious thrill seekers and
the like.
Different than some other publications with a military (semi-para-quasi
or whatever) theme, we do not recommend that you fill your
basement with 4,000 jars of peanut butter; we cannot help
you find your old girlfriend who you think may still be
somewhere near Pleiku; and while I am personally sympathetic
to the cause, none of us here is running off to join the
Free Armenia Army and we advise that you don't either. And,
we don't pretend to be experts.
What we have created here is a "bulletin board"
(a serious one, we hope) and have furnished the "thumb
tacks."
You are invited to contribute the information that is displayed..
We're looking for accounts of your own military activities
(serious and humorous) and your opinions of books you've
read in the form of book reviews. You can guide others to
the various military museums, or you may direct someone
to a veterans' group dedicated to a particular unit that
they didn't know about, bring long separated friends together
at a reunion, give notices of events and projects and anything
you may feel is related to the topic.
MHR will be exactly what you want it to be, no more and
no less. You're invited to come aboard.
— Armond M. Noble, Publisher
Postscript: The names have changed over the years
but the basis for Military hasn’t. It’s still
a magazine written by those who served our country and want
to tell their story as only they can. We still invite you
to submit your story. You can contact us at editor@milmag.com.
Thank you.
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