Personnel
Care of the American Revolutionary Soldiers
There was not much money invested in medicine in the American colonies before the Revolution, and the practice of the art had not achieved either distinction or prestige. The lack of investment and low public regard may have discouraged Congress from giving much attention to problems of providing for the health of the soldiers. Whatever the reasons, it did not…
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A SOLDIER’S STATUS IN CHINESE CULTURE
Qing forces of Chinese soldiers in 1899–1901. Left: two infantrymen of the New Imperial Army. Front: drum major of the regular army. Seated on the trunk: field artilleryman. Right: Boxers Whether a soldier’s image is positive or negative is largely determined within the broader realm of political culture. Whether the…
MALAYA SOE
When the Malayan People’s Anti-Japanese Army re-formed itself after WW2 to become the Malayan Races Liberation Army (MRLA), the guerrillas were unusually well-uniformed and equipped with gear supplied by the British during the war and souvenired from the retreating Japanese. The Japanese invasion of the British colony of Malaya began…
Vlasov and the Nazis
These men are Russian officers in the ROA, the Russian Liberation Army (In Russian: Russkaya Osvoboditelnaya Armiya). They are a part of captured Russian soldiers who joined the Germans and their Allies in the struggle against Bolshevism. The officer second from the left is General Vlasov. The ROA consisted of…
POLAND AT WAR, 1617-1667
The great distances of Poland and its relatively low density of population led to a greater emphasis on cavalry than in western Europe. The Poles had to confront opponents with very different tactics and did so with some success. Although Warsaw fell to the Swedes in August 1655 and to…
3rd Armored Division (United States)
The first elements of the 3rd Armored in France saw combat on 29 June, with the division as a whole beginning combat operations on 9 July 1944. During this time, it was under the command of VII Corps and XVIII Airborne Corps for some time, and assigned to the First…
Ottoman warfare 1000-1650
The medieval and early modern Western image of the Ottoman soldier as motivated principally by fanatic Muslim (ghazi) belief, and the Ottoman Empire as driven by a core mission of ‘‘holy war’’ (jihad), is a gross caricature that has nonetheless been purveyed by generations of historians. For one thing, jihad…