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It has been pointed out that the defense forces originally planned for were wholly inadequate and that it was necessary to bring in frontline troops to defend the sprawling city. Planned operations went hand in hand with improvisation. The organizational difficulties which resulted can be seen from a study of the chain of command. An attempt will be made to…
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Long-Range Bomber and Reconnaissance Aircraft The Ju 290 long-range bomber was a military development of the Junkers Ju 90, a…
Detail of a miniature of the siege of Meaux and the death of the mayor of the town, at the…
Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein The battle of Lützen. Cornelis Danckerts: Historis oft waerachtich verhael.., 1632. Engraving by Matthäus Merian.…
The entire goal of the American Revolution including the penning of the Declaration of Independence was to gain the colonists and the newly formed American nation legitimacy internationally. The Declaration of Independence was written to…
In the realm of modern warfare, where technology evolves at breakneck speed, traditional defense mechanisms are often rendered obsolete against emerging threats. Among these threats, unmanned aerial systems (UAS) have become increasingly prevalent, posing significant…
Weapons and Warfare has been updated with a save posts feature, accessibility options and a new store. While on a post page, you can now easily save a post to read later: New accessibility options…
During the remaining months of the war, Stalin referred disparagingly to the German presence in Courland as ‘the largest prison…
Zenobia of Palmyra, 273 AD – Women War Queens by Gambargin Palmyra at its greatest extent in 271 AD. King…
Consolidation When hostilities with the Samnites ceased in 304 BC, Rome’s grip on peninsular Italy was already becoming tight. Roman…
The Clinton-Sullivan Expedition: Indians Fleeing Chemung It’s the heat of summer in August 1779 in the village of Chemung in…
King George II at the Battle of Dettingen, with the Duke of Cumberland and Robert, 4th Earl of Holderness, 27 June 1743. Artist John Wootton (1682–1764). The decisive charge came when the king led his own foot regiments forward and shattered the French front line. George II died on 25th…
Rapp’s V Corps and Wilhelm of Württemberg with the III Corps of the Austrian army, north of Strasbourg on 28 June. Wilhelm’s force is made up of a mixed bag of Allied troops with infantry brigades from Austria, Hessen-Darmstadt, and two from Wurttemberg and a Württemberg cavalry brigade. Rapp commands…
12 May 1809 Sir Arthur Wellesley was a distinctly odd man; fastidious, snooty and intelligent all at once. He was also deeply ambitious and powered by intolerance towards others. He could hardly have been more different temperamentally in his buttoned-up style, to the mercurial, emotional Nelson or to the excitable,…
Great Nigerian troops celebrating the surrender of Biafra at Uli airstrip. Uli airstrip that handled the second highest number of flights in Africa in that period next to Johanesburg. THE AIRLIFT TO BIAFRA The Uli Airstrip was the most important link between Biafra and the outside world during the Nigerian…
Assaut de Zaatcha, 26 novembre 1849 by Jean-Adolphe Beauce Bad news from Algeria would also rattle a government whose stability was precarious. The bloodily suppressed June Days of 1848 had temporarily put an end to the riotous behavior of the Parisians. But the shaky Second Republic had yet to establish…
While the taper and squeeze bore experiments were progressing, another system of improving performance began to attract attention. The French ordnance engineer Brandt had been experimenting for some years with discarding sabot projectiles, a system in which the gun fired a projectile of less than its own calibre-a 10.5cm gun,…
The few armoured vehicles from the 1948 campaign such as the Vickers Mk VIB, M22 Locust and assorted Bren gun carriers and armoured cars tended to be painted plain Sand or British Army Green with Egyptian roundels. The delivery of large amounts of Soviet and Czechoslovakian tanks in the mid-1950s…
Westland Sea King HC. 4 helicopter On 26 May 1982, three men in hastily acquired civilian clothing gave a press conference to the world’s media in a packed reception room at the British Embassy in the Chilean capital, Santiago. The three were the crew of an 846 Naval Air Squadron…
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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