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Scots in Swedish Thirty Years’ War service. John Seton and his musketeers were still in Bohemia. After occupying the town of Prachatice and the country as far east as Neuhaus, they had been forced back by the advancing Imperial armies to Wittingau (now Trebon) and had been there since September. In July 1621 only two places held out against the…
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Kapitänleutnant Prien. From Bundesarchiv – CC BY-SA 3.0 de With Norway conquered and the torpedoes running true and exploding when…
Sailing towards Leyte Gulf from left to right CA Chikuma, BB Nagato, BC Haruna, BC Kongo and CA Tone.…
In 1974 after several periods of violence between the ethnically split inhabitants of Cyprus, two NATO countries went to war…
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The Iron Dome counter-rocket system developed by Rafael is one of four Israeli air defense systems that the U.S. is…
Infantry/tank co-operation. The cornerstone of US Army tactics was the all arms team, with infantry and tanks working closely together,…
The 75-mm (2.95-in) Pack Howitzer M1A1 on Carriage M8 was one of the Allies’ most successful light weapons of the…
The Roman Theatre of Carthago Nova and Cathedral ruins of Cartagena. Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus spent the winter of 210–209…
Museum reconstruction model of a Ming dynasty flying bomb The rocket was not a very effective weapon in its earliest forms, or indeed until well into the nineteenth century if one is being charitable. This changed dramatically in the twentieth century, particularly the second half of the twentieth century, prompting…
With the Russian collapse in 1917 and an offensive in October that nearly destroyed the Italian armed forces, the Germans possessed a window of opportunity to break the Western Front before the weight of US armament production and military forces could make themselves felt. There was, of course, an alternative…
An insouciant attitude toward death was highly esteemed among the officer class of both sides, and there are many examples of sangfroid in the face of extreme danger. Indeed some, such as George Custer, relished testing their staff officers in “an almost sadistic imposition of the leader’s courage on others,”…
As the sun went down in Dhaka, tens of thousands converged on the Race Course from all directions. Throughout the afternoon, the city had been humming with rumors of an impending surrender of the Pakistan army. At the ceremony, a small contingent of Pakistani and Indian soldiers presented an honor…
Kpengla was the seventh King of Dahomey. He succeeded Tegbessou, and ruled from 1774 to 1789. Kpengla’s reign increased the size of the kingdom. He killed the chief of the Popo people, Agbamou, thus extending the empire into what is currently Togo. He destroyed the villages of Ekpe and Badagry…
Saudi Arabia’s manpower problems raise serious doubts about the ambitious force expansion plans that Saudi Arabia has discussed since the Gulf War, and which the Kingdom would need to implement to be able to defend against the Iraqi threat if Iraq should succeed in breaking out of UN sanctions. After…
The cruiser tank–sometimes called the ‘cavalry tank’–was seen as a medium-weight, fast machine which could make reconnaissance forays deep into enemy territory, much as horse-mounted cavalry had in former conflicts. Modern thinking on tank design demands that equal attention be paid to mobility, firepower and protection. These principles were not…
Siebelfähre flak barge The Siebel ferry (Siebelfähre) was a shallow-draft catamaran landing craft operated by Germany’s Wehrmacht during World War II. It served a variety of roles (transport, flak ship, gunboat, convoy escort, minelayer) in the Mediterranean, Baltic and Black Seas as well as along the English Channel. They were…
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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