All sorts of one-hundred-year and one-thousand-year reviews have been appearing in the media. One of more depth and value than many appears in MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History and has fourteen historians commenting on 'Greatest Military Events of the Twentieth Century'. Such a critical and selective listing can engender much debate, and here are the events reviewed: Most Effective Weapon: Atomic Bomb Greatest Leader: Winston S. Churchill Most Significant Land Battle: The Marne Most Significant Air Action: Achieving Air Superiority Over France Greatest Spy: Hans-Thilo Schmidt Greatest Strategic Blunder: Operation Barbarossa Most Influential Book: Mein Kampf Greatest Campaign: Firestorm Over Japan Most Effective Air Commander: George C. Kenney Greatest General: Dwight D. Eisenhower Most Significant Intelligence Breakthrough: Cryptanalysis Most Significant Amphibious Operation: Invasion of Gallipoli Greatest Admiral: Karl Doenitz Most Significant Naval Battle: Midway Back to Greenhill Military Book News No. 96 Table of Contents Back to Greenhill Military Book News List of Issues Back to Master Magazine List © Copyright 2000 by Greenhill Books This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com