Czech Volunteers in Russia WWI
The Czech Legion started from humble beginnings in 1914 and ended up as one of the last reliable units on the World War One...
The Red Army 1917-1923
Formed from mutinous soldiers, armed factory workers and peasant conscripts, the Red Army prevailed through force of arms in the six-year-long Russian Civil War.
When...
The HMS Intrepid, Falkland War Veteran
The Proud HMS Intrepid and her forty year saga that took her through the Cold War, to the Falklands, to eBay.
In the past 250-years...
Adlerstag, Knickebeins, and Bletchey Park: Britain, Ultra, and the Battle of Britain, 1940
The Battle of Britain began in the summer of 1940, right after the collapse of France. It lasted through the end of October when...
Swedish Neutrality in World War II: Fact or Fiction?
The Scandinavian Kingdom of Sweden declared neutrality during the Second World War but, was it really nonaligned?
Since 1815 when the Napoleonic Wars finally ended,...
The Koguryo War
Korea was for many centuries known as the Hermit Kingdom, since it prevented anyone entering or leaving the kingdom. This helps to explain the...
United States Military Reform Post Civil War
Between 1865 and 1900 the United States' Army and Navy changed in direct relation to the threats the nation faced.
The reforms the United States...
Mikhail Kalashnikov is Still a Big Gun in the Russian Arsenal
The young Russian soldier who started out as a poet ended up creating one of the most enduring symbols of anti-Western ideology -...
Indian Wars and the Year of Custer: The Battle of the Rosebud
During the Indian Wars, General George Crook was denied victory in the Battle of the Rosebud due to inaccurate presumptions and ineffective tactics.
The...
Spanish Civil War Crimes: Both Sides Were Guilty
During the Spanish Civil War some 300,000 people die; mostly, innocent victims murdered by both the Nationalist and the Republican forces.
Brought about mainly...