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Deception and Maneuver: The American Civil War
Peninsula Campaign, map of events up to the Battle of Seven Pines. Western technological development transformed warfare and eventually swept away the Zulus’ world. Although many of the developments for which it is famed – the use of railways, telegraph and ironclad steamships – were not in fact new, the American Civil War is nevertheless often referred to as the…
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Germans actually studied the partisan resistance in the East and West
SS-ObergruppenfĂĽhrer Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski Prussian staff officers in the mold of von Moltke-vian military outlook looked at irregular warfare with contempt but not the generation of German officer corps who faced a different kind of threat to Germany at the end of WWI. Hans-Adolf PrĂĽtzmann was the generation of…
Before MUD – FIM Motocross World Championship there was Rasputitsa
The rasputitsa refers to the biannual seasons when unpaved roads become difficult to traverse in parts of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. The word may be translated as the “quagmire season” because during this period the large flatlands become extremely muddy and marshy, as do most unpaved roads. The term applies…