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Recent work, such as that by Connolly, Hanson and Sekunda, has paid much attention to army organisation, strategy and tactics, with some work on the psychology of war and the equipment used. It is with the equipment, the arms and armour, that this article is concerned. The basis of all warfare is arms and armour. What weapons were actually used…
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Heavy losses over Germany became the norm in 1943. The attrition reached a peak on August 17 when the 8th…
The Second Samnite War was the background which Livy, our only major literary source for this period, used to describe…
Amongst the siege guns Manstein would bring were French railway guns similar to the one seen here, a 240mm piece.…
Weapons and Warfare has been updated with a save posts feature, accessibility options and a new store. While on a post page, you can now easily save a post to read later: New accessibility options…
Read more about the World War II match up between Spitfire XIVs versus Bf 109Ks here:
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Peace was more common than war in the Baltic from 1721 to 1814 but there were also long periods of…
Imperial defenders Vienna, 1683 In southern Slavic languages, husar was a mounted knight. Polish hussaria (‘winged horsemen’) dominated Central and…
The siege of Tuyen Quang is ranked in the annals of the Legion heroics only slightly below that of Camerone,…
In 1944-1945, the Armored Command Vehicle AEC 6×6 Mk I (or AEC O857) had been producing. This machine was created…
Lieutenant Randy “Duke” Cunningham with his back-seater Willie Driscoll, score the second of three air victories achieved during a single mission, making them the only US Navy Aces of the Vietnam War. During 1968–71, MiG-17 skirmishes were rare. Airfield attacks had driven most of the 80-strong force into its Chinese…
Arsites, satrap of Hellespontine Phrygia, had hastily summoned various generals to the town of Zelea (Sarikoy), about 20 miles from the Macedonian camp. Everyone present had an opinion about how to defeat the Macedonians, but the most prudent advice came from Memnon of Rhodes, the leader of a contingent of…
Nivelle’s failure was no greater than that of others, indeed rather less. He took more ground than Joffre did in his offensives or than Haig did at Arras. But Nivelle had promised more. Instead, he had carried the exhausted French army beyond breaking point. (A.J.P. Taylor) Perhaps the most surprising…
Genoa, 1481, by Cristoforo Grassi. A display of naval strength in a celebration of the recapture of Otranto from the Ottomans. Genoa was a major maritime power but, like Venice, was under pressure from the Ottomans, losing its bases of Amasra (1460) and Kaffa (1475) on the Black Sea, and…
Until the Ras al-Jins (Southeast Oman) discoveries, we had no direct information on reed boat structure; iconographical representations and boat models proved unhelpful. However, the reconstruction of a 42.6-foot (13 m) proto-reedcraft based on the Ras al-Jins bitumen impressions, provided valuable information into construction methodologies: there were about 300 fragments…
Charge of the 21st Lancers at Omdurman, September 1898 During a tense meeting on the Nile (dubbed the ‘Fashoda Incident’ by Britain’s press) Kitchener convinced the French commander to accept that the British-led Egyptian Army had reimposed its control over Sudan, while avoiding bloodshed. K allowed the French to save…
Money is not the sinews of war. . . . That what we are saying is true every history shows in a thousand places, notwithstanding the fact that Pericles advised the Athenians to make war against the Peloponnesus in its entirety, asserting that they could win that war with industry…
The SA-6 ‘Gainful’, linked to a tracked ‘Straight Flush’ radar vehicle, can ‘kill’ as low as 30 m and as high as 18 km. Its triple launcher is mounted on a tracked vehicle. Warheads weigh 80 kg. The IDF AF made SA-6 sites its major targets. On both fronts in…
British coastal assault on St Cast in Brittany in September 1758. A German map, published…
Schnellboot S-80 torpedo boat Camo Operations with the Kriegsmarine S-boats were often used to patrol…
American Lend-Lease supplies to the USSR 1941–45. Soviet historiography is mocked in the West, where…
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