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ALL-OUT WAR 1977-1979 II
South Africa also feared the worst. During the white referendum of January 1979 that preceded the April poll, Smith admitted that if things went wrong South Africa had made ‘a very generous agreement’ to help Rhodesian war widows and the war-wounded. (A year before South Africa had secretly offered Rhodesian…
The Sri Lankan Government Forces – Sri Lankan War I
Red area shows the approximate areas of Sri Lanka controlled by the LTTE and the Government, as of December 2005. Background The regular Ceylon Defence Force (CDF) was founded in 1910 although a reserve volunteer force had existed since 1881. The CDF came under the command of the British Army.…
“SECOND YPRES”
COMPILED BY BEATRIX BRICE 1927 The heroic defence that established the Salient line in October and November 1914 set an aureole around Ypres, and the city assumed a significance in the War beyond any military value. Germany, determined on a spectacular triumph, employed every device to capture the town, but…
Meteor Beyond Visual Range Air-to-Air Missile (BVRAAM)
Some basic stats on the 25 year old AMRAAM. A rival to AMRAAM is the Meteor Beyond Visual Range Air-to-Air Missile (BVRAAM), the product of another international missile programme includes Saab Dynamics. This Matra/ BAe Dynamics-led programme included partners from the four Eurofighter-producing countries; Saab Dynamics was an exception but…
BREDA 1625
The Surrender of Breda by Diego Velázquez. Oil on canvas, 1635. Map of the siege of Breda by Spinola. J.Blaeu. In 1621, four years before that achievement, Spain was coming to an end of its twelve years’ truce with the Dutch rebels. Little more than a week into Philip IV’s…
Thunder out of Arabia
The Battle of Manzikert was fought between the Byzantine Empire and the Seljuq Turks on August 26, 1071 near Manzikert (modern Malazgirt in Muş Province, Turkey). The decisive defeat of the Byzantine army and the capture of the Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes played an important role in undermining Byzantine authority…
Czechoslovak Air Force 1918-1970 Part II
Clearly, the French defeat had saved some high-ranking members of the RAF from a potentially embarrassing decision, but events had overtaken them. Edvard Beneš had already written to the new Secretary of State for Air, Sir Archibald Sinclair, requesting help with the evacuations, adding that the first group of thirty…
Bristol Blenheim Nightfighters
The first night fighters to operate in 9 Group were a section of 29 Squadron Blenheim Mk IFs which had arrived at Tern Hill in August. The detachment was only on loan from 12 Group and it was detailed to provide one aircraft at immediate readiness and another two at…
Bactria/Afghanistan
The Bactrian revolt was subsequent to the adoption of the thureophoros in the Seleucid army, and the thureophoros appears in Bactrian art. It is likely that Hellenistic colonist infantry were now similarly armed. A Bactrian army raised by Euthydemos in 208 BC to foil an attempted Seleucid reconquest consisted entirely…
Caledonia and Rome
On, then, into action; and as you go, think of those that went before you and of those that shall come after. Words attributed by Tacitus to the Caledonian chieftain Calgacus, AD 84 Before the Picts made their first appearance in history, their territory in what is now Scotland was…