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We are now into the second century in which aerial warfare is commonplace in a range of forms, and the second decade in which drone warfare is routinized. As paradigm, strategy, and tactic, violence-at-a-distance has become a predominant model of military engagement.

Over the past century, paintings of the Great War have played an important role in shaping and expressing public memory of the conflict. Indeed, many canvases—think, for example, of the Panthéon de la Guerre or John Singer Sargent’s iconic Gassed—have enjoyed just as much cultural prominence as photographs or works of cinema. The Great War represents a “last hurrah” for painting as a significant form of cultural war remembrance.

The First World War started in Europe, and quickly spread to encompass large parts of the world. Throughout the war, European Powers used their territorial possessions outside Europe as rich sources of material and manpower. Most of the warring parties, from Britain to the Ottoman Empire, made extensive use of their citizens and subjects from around the globe in their war efforts.

Donald Stoker of the U.S. Naval War College’s Program at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, and Edward Westermann of Texas A&M University-San Antonio, are editing a book on air force advising and assistance for British publisher Helion & Company.

Donald Stoker and Michael McMaster, both professors with the U.S. Naval War College’s Program at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, are editing a book on naval advising and assistance for British publisher Helion & Company. They are looking for historical studies of naval advisory missions, first-hand accounts of advisors, analytical “lessons learned” pieces, and any other interesting material that will help chart the history, development, and effects of naval advisory missions or naval aspects of Foreign Internal Defense (FID).

War destroys human life, but at the same time creates the space that can lead to memorialization. The memories of war are often physically expressed by war memorials. These sites of remembrance may be different in many ways, following national contexts and traditions, however, there are also many similarities which bridge national/cultural differences. Regardless of the fact of who is being remembered, e.g. soldiers, civilians, victors or vanquished, there is a tradition of war memorials which is as old as warfare itself.

In 1961, U.S. President Eisenhower famously warned about the dangers of the “military-industrial complex.” This thematic issue of the Canadian Journal of History takes Eisenhower’s rhetoric as a springboard for thinking about the complex relationships between the military, the state, and healthcare.

Der Lehrstuhl für Zeitgeschichte der Universität Mannheim, Prof. Dr. Philipp Gassert, und der Arbeitskreis Historische Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, Dr. Claudia Kemper (Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung), laden interessierte Promovierende zu einer Doktorandenschule an der Universität Mannheim ein.

In existence since 1978, the International Bibliography of Military History (IBMH) has traditionally published historiographical articles, review articles, and book reviews. Since its recent move to Brill, however, it has been undergoing a transformation into a fully-fledged military history journal. As a next step in this process, the portfolio will be enlarged to include also original research articles.

The World History Association's World History Bulletin, based at Georgia State University, is accepting submissions, under the guest editorship of Dhara Anjaria (Royal Asiatic Society), for a forthcoming issue (Spring 2015) on European colonial empires.

To mark the centenary of the Great War (1914-1918), submissions revolving around Empire and the Great War are especially welcomed. Themes include, but are not limited to, colonial engagement with the war, the impact of the war on imperial geopolitics, and post war treaties and imperialism.