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Leaders, battles and strategy shaped by those the record wrote around

The figures and formations usually left at the edge of the record — women who commanded, minority regiments, indigenous leaders, and units whose service was documented late or not at all. Each article studies them the way this magazine studies anyone else: the situation they faced, the decisions they made, the strategy they built, and the outcome it produced.

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"Being left out of the record is not the same as being absent from the field. We go looking for the ones who were there."

— The Editor