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MILITARY HEGEMONY OFĀ FRANCE
The military hegemony of France in Europe and in many regions overseas began on 19 May 1643 with the destruction of the Spanish Netherlands Army at Rocroi by a French army led by the 21-year-old Duke of Enghien (later Prince of Conde, the āGreat Condeā). The young dukeās remarkable victory over Spainās hardened veterans signaled the end of Spainās military…
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THE SPACE DOMAIN
Russiaās 14Ts033 Nudol ASAT capable In 2019, a series of announcements highlighted the growing importance of space for national security and defence. At its November 2019 foreign-ministersā meeting in Belgium, NATO declared space an `operational domainā for the Alliance, three months after the United States activated US Space Command as…
āSecond Front Nowā
THE BRITISH ARMY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM 1939-45 (H 18957) Men of No. 4 Commando after returning from a raid on the French coast near Boulogne, 22 April 1942. Copyright: Ā© IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205198312 Within hours of having delivered himself of the British determination to stand by all who…
Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil WarĀ I
In classical Stalinist historiography, the entire Russian Civil War was reduced to the Red Armyās successful repulsion of the āthree Entente campaigns,ā in which the White and other nationalist armies (Poles, Balts, Ukrainians, etc.) were merely puppets of the Allied leaders. That was a gross exaggerationāindeed, there is a case…
Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil WarĀ II
POLISH LEGION. Chiefly active in Siberia during the āRussianā Civil Wars, but also a participant in the SovietāPolish War, this force had its origins in the formation at Samara, from 1 July 1918, of a Polish volunteer unit (formally, the 5th Polish Rifle Division) under Walerian Czuma (1890ā1962), a veteran…
AFTER THE SURGE
(Summer 2008) As the surge ended in mid-2008, with the last of the five additional combat brigades heading home, Baghdad felt distinctly better. Kebab stands and coffee shops had reopened across the city, and many ordinary Iraqis felt safe enough to venture out of their homes at night, in part…
āErnie Kingās belovedĀ oceanā
In 1921 a Marine staff officer by the name of Major Earl āPeteā Ellis made an ominous forecast: the assignment of Germanyās former island colonies in the Central Pacific to Japan under the League of Nations mandate would one day make war in the Pacific inevitable. Over two decades later…