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Naval Wargame 17 Min Read

French And Spanish Admirals – Trafalgar Campaign

Spanish Admiral Federico Gravina at Trafalgar. French and Spanish admirals who held key appointments during the Trafalgar campaign. Barham’s ‘opposite number’ was the much younger Denis DecrĂšs. Born of a noble family in 1761, he joined the French Navy at the relatively late age of 18. As a junior officer…

Naval History 12 Min Read

“Floating Chrysanthemums”

USS BUNKER HILL hit by two Kamikazes in 30 seconds on 11 May 1945 off Kyushu. Dead – 372. Wounded – 264. (Navy) Map showing approximate radar picket positions, radar ranges, and initial Japanese plane sightings. May 4, 1945 In Japan the chrysanthemum is probably the most beloved of all…

Biography History 23 Min Read

A Cleopatra Comeback

That summer she rallied a band of mercenaries, at a desert camp, under the glassy heat of the Syrian sun. She was twenty-one, an orphan and an exile. Already she had known both excessive good fortune and its flamboyant consort, calamity. Accustomed to the greatest luxury of the day, she…

Military and Naval Soviet Wars 28 Min Read

The Red Army vs. the Mujahideen, 1980–1989 Part I

Few could have imagined that jihadist insurgents would prove so powerful when the Soviet Union launched its textbook takedown of Afghanistan. The Soviet assault began on Christmas Eve 1979—exactly fifty days after the takeover of the American embassy in Tehran—with more than a division of paratroopers landing at Kabul airport…

Personnel 15 Min Read

Baltic Auxiliary Units

Schuma graduates from Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia attend a trip/conference in Germany. Lithuanian schuma, police and TLR members. The Baltic states of Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia were independent nations on the eve of World War II. These former provinces of Russia had been independent only since 1920. Unfortunately, the…

Russia 12 Min Read

Moscow Theater Takeover

Russian special forces storm the Dubrovka Theater during the 2002 Moscow hostage crisis. October 23, 2002 Overview: Chechen terrorists became more brazen during the late 1990s and early 2000s, refusing to buckle in the wake of massive crackdowns against them by the Moscow regime. Attacking planes, subways, apartment complexes, and…

Austria Military and Naval Wars 13 Min Read

The Schleswig-Holstein campaign: General Gablenz

Austrian illustration of the battle for KönigshĂŒgel. Almost before any of the lessons of Solferino could be digested, more pressing challenges arose to the north where, in the dual duchies of Schleswig and Holstein, the Habsburg armies would confront a new enemy: the Danes. The story of the Schleswig-Holstein question…

Air Warfare British France 23 Min Read

Gaddafi’s Strategic Surprise 2011-12

Rafale Ops over Libya in Config AASM Hammer. The nature of the air and naval attacks was a major surprise to Gaddafi. It would seem that as Colonel Gaddafi had been able to reconcile his regime with the West through offering to give up his WMD program that he thought…

Air Warfare 23 Min Read

F-15E Strike Eagle Operational history

Air Force F-16A Fighting Falcon, F-15C Eagle, and F-15E Strike Eagle fighter aircraft fly over burning oil field sites in Kuwait during Operation Desert Storm (U.S. Air Force) 990218-F-0000L-001A U.S. Air Force F-15E Eagle flies above snow covered mountains during a routine patrol over Northern Iraq on Feb. 18, 1999,…