Christopher L Eger

Oberleutanant Adolph Hofrichter, in an attempt to gain promotion, set out to murder ten officers ahead of him for an appointment to the General Staff Academy in 1909. more...

The Military History of the SKS: Cold War Widow Maker

The SKS-45 rifle was seen in one form or another on virtually every Cold War battlefield in the latter part of the 20th Century. more...

The Origin and Design of the SKS: Soviet Battle Rifle of the Cold War

Springing from an evolution of designs by Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov, the SKS became one of the first assault rifles. more...

Confederate Submarines of the Civil War: From The CSS Hunley to the CSS David

The Confederate Navy designed and used a number of submarine craft to varying degrees of success in the Civil War. more...

Albert Pierce and the Battle of Mobile Bay: Did a Mystery Submarine Sink the USS Tecumseh

Last of the Surviving M-14 Battle Rifles: The M14 Obsolete But Irreplaceable

Plucked from Mobile Bay during the 1864 battle, Alfred Pierce told how he and his secret sub attacked a Union warship more...

Apr 29, 2009

Category: Modern War

The standard US military rifle for only six years, the M14 refuses to go quietly into retirement after forty years. It is still seen all over the world today. more...

Apr 28, 2009

Lyudmila Pavlichenko Female Sniper Queen: Lady Sniper-Ace Killed More Soldiers than Any other female marksman

Category: WW II History

The young Ukrainian girl, taking a summer off from college, took up a sniper rifle and killed no less than 309 Nazi soldiers. more...

Mar 11, 2009

Task Force Smith and the Bazooka: Spitballs Against Armor at the Start of the Korean War in 1950

Category: Modern War

Under armed and overwhelmed the US Army soldiers of Task Force Smith turned to their M9A1 Bazookas to save the day at the Battle of Osan in 1950. more...

Feb 6, 2009

Oldest Fighter Jets Still in Service: Migs Mirages Phantoms and Fishbeds Fly For Some 40 Years

Category: Modern War

Since WWII more than 100 types of fighter aircraft have seen service. Most only flew for 10-20 years. However a handful have lasted longer more...

USMC Marine Squad Advanced Marksman: Development of the SAM Squad Sniper and the SAM-R Rifle

Category: Modern War

The US Marine Corps began in 2002 to develop a program for Designated Riflemen and Squad Advanced Marksmen, two superb shooters that werent quite snipers. more...

Is a Designated Marksman a Sniper?: The Difference between a Rifleman, Sniper and Advanced Marksmen

Category: Modern War

Since 2000, when the US borrowed Warsaw pact combat doctrine for squad level marksmen, the line between these men and snipers has blurred. more...

Dec 5, 2008

Presidents in World War Two: They Also Served in Often Little Known WWII Service

Category: WW II History

Most were not famous at the time, but history would remember these presidents and sons of presidents more for what they would accomplish later than for the War. more...

Nov 12, 2008

The Mystery of the Russalka: Tsars Battleship lost at sea in 1893.

Category: WW I History

At one time on the cutting edge of naval development, the unlucky Russalka disappeared in 1893 without a trace. more...

Oct 31, 2008

Adelbert Waldron US Sniper Ace: Highest scoring US sniper in history

Category: Modern War

In the first half of 1969, 36-year old Sgt Waldron of the US Army's 9th ID in Vietnam was credited with 109 confirmed kills, making him the highest scoring US sniper ever more...

Oct 12, 2008

Iranian F-14 Tomcat History: Scourge of the Iraqi Air Force and Last Survivor of Their Line

Category: Modern War

Cut off from support, the 79 F-14 Tomcat fighters in the Iranian air force fought in the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war and continue to fly 30 years later. more...

Aug 28, 2008

The Polish WWII Cavalry in 1939: Fought Successful Horse mounted battles

Category: WW II History

Engaged in the War less than a month, 11 brigades of the Polish cavalry made no less than 16 all out charges against the German invaders. more...

Aug 26, 2008

The Most Famous Cavalry Charge of WWII: Last Hurrah of the Savoia Cavalry Regiment in 1942

Category: WW II History

The Italian 3rd Dragoons Savoia Cavalry Regiment conducted one of the last charges by horse mounted soldiers in modern warfare. more...

Aug 21, 2008

The Fa-330 Bachstelze U-boat Kite: Primitive WWII Nazi Towed Helicopter

Category: WW II History

The unique 180-pound Focke-Achgelis Fa-330 Bachstelze (Wagtail) was designed as an unpowered helicopter/kite to be towed behind German U-boats in World War II more...

Jul 30, 2008

Finnish War Hero Lauri Allan Törni: Small Unit Commander Who Fought the Soviets

Category: WW II History

The young Lauri Allan Törni served as legendary commander of ski-borne, machinegun toting Jaeger troops in the Finnish Winter War as well as World War Two. more...

Jul 12, 2008

Russian Cruiser Zhemchug: Imperial Russian Naval vessel in the Russo-Japanese War

Category: WW I History

New and fast, the Zhemchug was a bright star in the Russian Imperial Navy during the Russo-Japanese War in 1904-1905 more...

Jun 21, 2008

Serial Killer Who Escaped in War: Bela Kiss Hungarian Bluebeard who disappeared in WWI

WWII Cruiser HMS Exeter Found: The Heavy Cruiser that fought like a Lion in World War Two

The Great War was a means of escape for one of the most mysterious serial killers of the 20th Century. Hungarian murderer Bela Kiss came to light because of that war. more...

Jun 21, 2008

Category: WW II History

The Royal Navy's Heavy cruiser HMS Exeter had a brief but legendary war service. In her 18-months of War she helped kill the Graf Spee and fought the Japanese. more...

May 26, 2008

Nazi SS Archeologist: Otto Rahn Inspiration for Indiana Jones

The German Dragon Pilot 1914: Lt. Plüschow the Kaiser's Only Airman in China

Otto Rahn was a historian and archeologist whose work for the SS made him a possible inspiration for the villains of the Indian Jones series more...

May 20, 2008

Category: WW I History

When World War One erupted 28 year old Leutnant zur See Gunther Plüschow, flying an already obsolete airplane, was the Kaisers entire air force in China. more...

Apr 21, 2008

Russian Guns In Space: Cosmonauts Have Long Carried Guns in Space

Category: Modern War

Soviet and now Russian cosmonauts have carried firearms in space for decades and continue to do so. more...

Mar 31, 2008

US Aircraft Carrier Sunk 1964: USS Card Mined in Saigon Harbor During the Vietnam War

Category: Modern War

The USS Card was mined by sappers of a Vietnamese underwater demolition team while docked in the heavily defended Saigon Harbor, then capitol of South Vietnam. more...

Mar 30, 2008

Royal Mounted Marines of the 1800s: Horse Marines in the Kings Royal Navy

Category: Colonial Wars

The British Royal Navy used mounted marines in expeditionary warfare off and on in the 19th century. more...

Feb 21, 2008

Madsen Machinegun Variants: The Danish Light Machinegun in Service Around the World

Category: Modern War

The Danish Madsen Light Machinegun was used in a dizzying 40+ variants by no less than 36 countries on five continents over the past three centuries. more...

Feb 20, 2008

The Modern Luxembourg Army: 1945- Present Korea the Cold War and Beyond

Category: Modern War

Reformed at the end of World War Two, the Luxembourg Army grew to an amazing 10,000 men, fought in Korea, held the line in the Cold War and now serves with NATO overseas. more...

Feb 20, 2008

Military History of Luxembourg: Tiny Duchy was the First Country Invaded by Germany in World War One

Category: WW I History

Obstensively neutral, the small grand duchy of Luxembourg was actually drawn into the Great War due to location. more...

Feb 18, 2008

Contra Rebels Possible Rebirth: Nicaragua May See the Return of the Historical Cold War Fighters

Category: Modern War

With new initiatives by Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega, many former Contra Rebels are talking of taking to the hills again. more...

Jan 30, 2008

Marshal Nicholas Charles Oudinot: Napoleans Forgotten Battle Lion

The Zombie World War: A Look at World War Z by Max Brooks

Nicholas-Charles Oudinot enlisted as a private at age 16 and served France for the next 64 years, rising to become one of Napoleon's Marshals and surviving 24 wounds. more...

Jan 26, 2008

Category: Modern War

Max Brooks new book, 'World War Z; An Oral History of the Zombie War" while fictional, is an adaptive interpretation based on actual military history. more...

Jan 7, 2008

War and Literature at West Point: Soldier's Heart - A Review of Literature by a USMA English Professor

Category: Modern War

Professor Elizabeth Samet's book Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature through Peace and War at West Point. more...

Jan 1, 2008

The Swedish Landsverk L60 Tank: The Nordic Tank Saw Service All Over the World for 70 Years

Category: Modern War

Designed by rogue German engineers before WWII, less than 500 hardy little L60s were made. They served in a half-dozen countries and few survive today. more...

Dec 18, 2007

Arctic Scheme F-16 For Alaska: The New 18th AGS Gets Exotic Vipers for Red Flag Alaska

Category: Modern War

The newly formed 18th Aggressor Squadron has gotten arctic schemed aircraft in the first time in the USAF's history for its 'bad-guy' F-16 fighters to be used in Red Flag more...

Oct 31, 2007

Interventionists in the Far East: The Saga of Allied Intervention in the Russian Far East

The Czech Legion 1917-1920: Russian Civil War Combatant on the White Side

Japanese troops, assisted by the British, French and Americans, occupied the Russian far east for several years during the Russian Civil War. more...

Oct 28, 2007

Russian Women's Legion of Death: The Organization and Record of the Women’s Battalions 1917

Growing from a unit of volunteers that fought for the Tsar against the Hapsburg Empire, these 50,000 Czechs fought an amazing campaign for survival. more...

Oct 25, 2007

Category: Modern War

The organization, war record, and short-lived history of the battalions of the Russian Women's Legion of Death that fought in World War One and the Russian Revolution. more...

Oct 22, 2007

Krasnaia Red Presnia Uprising: The Pivotal Battle of the 1905 Russian Revolution in Moscow

Category: Modern War

What started off as a strike ended up with artillery and the Tsarist Imperial Guard putting down a full fledged revolt that forever after left the Presnia district Red. more...

Oct 18, 2007

The Cavalry Corps of Gen Baratov: Russian WWI Expedition to Persia 1910-1918

Category: Modern War

Composition and origins of the Russian Imperial Army's 1st Caucasian Cavalry Corps of General NN Baratov fighting the Turks in Persia during World War One. more...

Oct 16, 2007

The Combat Record of the Konarmia: The Soviet Red Army's Cavalry 1918-1923

Category: Modern War

The 1st Cavalry Army of General Budyonny fought the Whites, Poles, Armenians, Greens, and everyone else in the Russian Civil War. more...

The Southern White Army 1917-1920: Founded by Kornilov and Alekseev in the Russian Civil War

Under the protection of the Cossacks and aided by a corps of Interventionists, the AFSR White Army of the South fought for three bloody years until defeated. more...

The Siberian White Army 1918-1923: Led by Admiral Kolchak During the Russian Civil War

Fighting alongside 50,000 homeless Czech legionnaires and 70,000 Japanese troops the White forces under Admiral Kolchak fought the longest of any. more...

The Northwestern White Army 1919: Led by General Yudenich During the Russian Civil War

Battle of Asal Uttar 1965: Largest Tank on Tank Armor Battle Since World War Two

The smallest and shortest-lived of the White Armies; it came closest to capturing the old capital of St Petersburg in a brief campaign in 1919. more...

Sep 10, 2007

Category: Modern War

Fought between Pakistani and Indian armored units forty-two years ago today, the Battle of Asal Uttar has its own page in military history. more...

Aug 15, 2007

167 Discharged without Honor: The Story of the 25th Infantry and the 1906 Brownsville Raid Affair

The Turtle First Combat Submarine: Used in the Revolutionary War and Still Subject of Controversy

The veteran troops of the 25th Infantry found themselves in a battle they could not win in 1906. more...

Aug 7, 2007

Category: Colonial Wars

Designed by David Bushnell, the American Turtle submarine of the Revolutionary War is emulated today as a historic and groundbreaking craft. more...

Jul 23, 2007

Modern Military History of Andorra: Fought Imperial Germany for 25 Years among Other Accomplishments

Category: Modern War

The tiny landlocked country of Andorra, (69,000 population-2006 census), has a unique modern military history. This includes fighting Imperial Germany for three decades. more...

Jul 8, 2007

The Tacoma Class Frigates PF-03: The Forgotten Expendables of The Navy

Russian Imperial Guards ORBAT 1917: The Order of Battle Unit Listing at the Time of the Revolution

The Tacoma class frigates were the forgotten, overlooked and almost unwanted ships that got the job done in World War Two and Korea. more...

Jun 23, 2007

Category: Modern War

A list of the units assigned to the Tsar's own Russian Imperial Guard at its apogee on March 12, 1917- during the Russian Revolution more...

Jun 23, 2007

The Russian Imperial Guard in 1917: Blead Out in World War One the Guards Allowed the Monarchy to Fall

Category: Modern War

The weakened Imperial Guard, suffering from its World War One losses, fought against its Tsar in March and then refused to stand by the new democratic government as well. more...

Jun 10, 2007

The Soviet PPSh-41 Submachine Gun: The Red Armys WWII Widow Maker of the Eastern Front Still in Service

Canadian HMCS Huron DDH 281: CDF Navy Destroyer 1972-2005

Uncle Joe Stalin's crude but effective battle weapon equipped millions of Red Army soldiers on the march to Berlin and Tokyo and still soldiers on today around the world. more...

May 28, 2007

Dutch Paratroopers in Indonesia: 1948-1950 Paragevechtsgroep Para Combat Group Operations East Indies

Canadian Destroyer projected the Maple Leaf abroad through the Cold War and circumnavigated the globe before ending her life in a hail of gunfire. more...

May 17, 2007

Category: Modern War

The first combat paratroop drops after WW II were conducted by crack Dutch commandos who had been trained originally by the British in 1942. more...

May 2, 2007

The Faithful Italian Carabinieri: Military Police and Corps of Heroes

Admiral Stark at Vladivostok 1922: White Russian Admiral Led the Last Fleet into Exile

The Carabinieri Corps has been at times the most dedicated of all of the Italian armed forces more...

Apr 27, 2007

Category: WW I History

At the end of the Russian Civil War an elderly Admiral called back from retirement led a broken down fleet of stolen ships loaded with refugees to safety. more...

Apr 24, 2007

Salvage of the High Seas Fleet: German Ships Sank at Scapa Flow in 1919

Internment High Seas Fleet 1918: The Pride of the German Navy was Surrendered at Scapa Flow

More than forty of the 74 ships of the Imperial German Navy's High Sea Fleet only left their final anchorage as scrap if at all. more...

Apr 22, 2007

Lost Guns of the General Alekseev: The Cannons from the Russian Battleship were Spread Far and Wide

At the close of World War One, the victorious allies ordered that the powerful and undefeated High Seas Fleet present itself for interment until a final peace. more...

Apr 20, 2007

The Bazooka Vespa in Combat: A French Moped with a 75mm Gun was Used in Warfare

When the ill-fated White Russian battleship was broken up in Tunisia its guns were sent all over the world, changed hands often, and fought for many new owners. more...

Apr 15, 2007

Category: Modern War

The Cold War era French Army issued its paratroopers a souped-up Vespa motor scooter with a recoilless rifle and called it a day. more...

Apr 10, 2007

The Swiss Guard Guardia Svizzera: The Vatican Hosts the World's Smallest Professional Standing Army

The Robot Boat of Nikola Tesla: The Beginnings of the UUV and remote control weapons

The elite bodyguards of the Pope are the last of the old-school mercenaries and have been the army of the Vatican for the past 500 years more...

Apr 1, 2007

Hauptman Detzner WW I Holdout: World War I German guerilla fighter on New Guinea

Tesla, the legend of popular culture, inventor of AC current, grandfather of radio, radar and MRIs, invented and tested the world's first remote control weapon in 1898. more...

Mar 22, 2007

Composition of Forces at Hill 3234: A look at the 9th Rota and the Forces it fought against

When the Allies occupied the German colony of New Guinea at the opening of WW I a German officer led a four-year expedition to retain the island, surrendering in 1919. more...

Mar 14, 2007

Category: Modern War

At the Battle for Hill 3234 two very different groups fought each other through the night in 12 engagements. Here is what is known about them. more...

Mar 5, 2007

Agoge - Spartan Military Training: Sparta took twenty years to create the perfect Hoplite Warrior

Soviet and US Air Combat 1950-1991: When the Cold War Turned Hot in the Air

The city state of ancient Sparta was a martial culture the likes the world has rarely seen. more...

Mar 1, 2007

Category: Modern War

It was little known that on at least two dozen occasions blood was drawn by either side of the two superpowers in the cold war in aerial combat. more...

Feb 24, 2007

Pacific Military Cargo Cults: World War Two US occupation had some strange results

The US 14inch/45calibre Naval Gun: The 14"/45 used by the US Navy from 1910 until 1945 in WWI & WWII

The isolated cultures of the south pacific were influenced by occupying Allied (usually US) military forces in World War Two with lasting effects. more...

Feb 17, 2007

Japanese Balloon Bombs of WWII: The Empire of Japan's use of one way free balloons to bomb the US

Used by the United States and Great Britian the 14 inch naval gun was in history from the Dardanelles to Guam in the 20th Century. more...

Feb 10, 2007

The Duel in Military History: This ode to Ritualized Personal Violence had been common to the mili

Desperate to avenge the brutal American attacks on the Japanese homeland, Japan invented one of the strangest weapons in aerial combat. more...

Feb 1, 2007

SS General Dr. Oskar Dirlewanger: Butcher of the Eastern Front and Leader of madmen

The annuals of military history are filled with instances of one on one duels fought only for the sake of honor. more...

Jan 21, 2007

Category: Modern War

Founder and commander of the band of criminals who became the most notorious unit of world war two. more...

Jan 15, 2007

St. Sebastian Military Martyr: The Patron Saint of the Grunt

Captain Philo Norton McGiffin: The first American to command a modern battleship in wartime

One of the most well known of the class of military martyrs and soldier saints of the Early Christian Church. He is depicted in art tied to a post and pierced with arrows more...

Jan 6, 2007

Production variants of the FAL: The FN FAL and the L1A1 SLR Rifles and their users

Five years before the famous Admiral Dewey sailed into victory in Manila Bay, a fellow Annapolis graduate had already been in command of a modern battleship more...

Dec 30, 2006

The Burial Of Shelbys Flag: War Poetry By an Eyewitness to the Last Flying Confederate Battle Flag

The FAL was the rifle choice of western Europe's NATO forces as well as those of the Commonwealth. They were made in two very different versions. more...

Dec 20, 2006

The Last Confederate General: Never Defeated, General Joe Shelby was determined to prevent the surrender of his command.

When the last of the defeated's banners was furled and destroyed in the terrible slaughter of the Civil War, it was witnessed by a poet. more...

Dec 12, 2006

End of the Austro Hungarian Navy: The Imperial and Royal Navy of Austria and Hungary met its end in 19

Refusing to surrender he led his men on an epic 1500 mile flight through the anarchy of a lost war to continue the fight. more...

Dec 4, 2006

Book Review: Rifleman Went to War: A look at Capt H. W. McBride's masterpiece of World War one sniping

From 1382 until 1918 this force was one of the largest in the world. Often bloodied but never beaten it disappeared from the oceans with a whimper. more...

Nov 9, 2006

Stalin’s Sharpshooter’s Tool: The Soviet Russian Sniper rifle model M1891/30 Victor of Stalingrad, Warsaw, and the Berlin Wall

The first and some say the most influential book in print about sniping and the art of being a military sniper on the battlefield more...

Nov 9, 2006

Rogers Rangers Rules # 9-19: The original field manual for irregular warfare and special operations

The Mosin Nagant M1891/30 Sniper rifle with either the PU or PE scopes attached were the widow makers of the Eastern Front and Korea. more...

Nov 4, 2006

Famous People Of The Great War: They also served the little known world war one service of soon to be famous.

Rules number 9 through 19 of Rogers famous Rangers field operations guide. more...

Oct 28, 2006

Category: WW I History

They were not famous at the time, but history would remember these writers, actors, politicans and popes more for what they would accomplish later than for the war. more...

Oct 16, 2006

Hitler’s Foreign Legion: Waffen SS: Non German Units in the Waffen SS During World War Two

Category: Modern War

Nearly 350,000 non-German volunteers from no less than 16 occupied countries served willingly in Adolf Hitler's Waffen SS combat units from 1940-1945. more...

Oct 7, 2006

The Belgian Army of 1914: World War One's Innocent Bystander

Category: Modern War

Although the Belgian army was only a tenth the size of the German army, it still delayed the Germans for nearly a month. more...

Sep 30, 2006

The WWI Serbian Army of 1914: Defender of Belgrade the Serbs met Austrian forces along the Drina river

Category: Modern War

Underequipped, outnumbered, and fighting with its back to the mountains the Serbian National Army never shrank from its duties in World War One. more...

Sep 22, 2006

The Imperial Russian army of 1914: The Tsarist army of World War One was referred to as The Russian Steamroller

Category: Modern War

With 14 million peasant drafts lead by an officer corps one percent of that size, the Russian army was short of every single thing except soldiers, bravery and enemies. more...

Sep 18, 2006

The Imperial German army of 1914: The boots of nearly two million men were drawn from 26 States to march to the Guns of August

Category: Modern War

From a peacetime standing army of 870,000 men the grey coated war machine of the Kaiser eventually put almost fourteen million under arms to fight the whole western world more...

Sep 10, 2006

Eastern use of the sword 1600-1974: Samurai were the last of the true swordsmen in combat

The Long sword or Two handed sword: The Claymore and Doublehander swords of the late middle ages in combat

From the days of the 47 Ronin until the last of the reborn samurai of the Imperial Japanese Army in the second world war the sword continued to be used in the east. more...

Sep 6, 2006

Category: Medieval Wars

Growing from the knights sword of the early middle ages, these huge monster blades were king of the Western European battlefields for two hundred years more...

Sep 2, 2006

The Gladius Sword of the Romans: The Legions of Rome carried the premier handweapon of the time

The 1969 Soccer War in the Air: Classic Mustang and Corsair Warbirds of the 1940s decided this modern war

Evolving from the ancient bronze and iron edged weapons of the Hitties and Celts the Gladius became the blade that won the lands of the Roman Empire more...

Aug 29, 2006

The Soccer War of 1969: Fought between Honduras and El Salvador it was the end of an era in combat

Fearless Latin American aviators, flying aircraft that had been retired from front line service for twenty years fought it out over the jungles of Central America. more...

Aug 18, 2006

Category: Modern War

Sparked by one countries effort to curb illegal immigrants from the other, the brief four day war was an interesting footnote in military history. more...

Aug 11, 2006

The Pike as a Weapon in History: Twenty feet of steel tipped polearm ruled the battlefield

Category: Medieval Wars

From the 1300s to as late as the 20th Century the Pike was a simple concept that revolutionized tactics and maneuver warfare. more...

Aug 2, 2006

The Air War in the Falklands: Mirages and Skyhawks Vs Harriers and Vulcans in the South Atlantic

Category: Modern War

Great Britian and Argentina placed their most experianced pilots at the controls of some of the most capable combat aircraft in the world and fought an epic air war. more...

Jul 28, 2006

The 1982 Falkland Islands War: Overview of Three Part Series on the 74 day War Between Britian and Argentina

Category: Modern War

Between April 2 and June 14, 1982 Great Britain and Argentina fought the first modern war of the missile age in the air, on the sea, and the ground. more...

Jul 23, 2006

The Paris Guns of World War One: These monsters bombarded the city from 70 miles away.

Category: Modern War

The three original super guns with which the Imperial German army bombarded Paris from the woods of Crepy from March 1918 to the end of World War I. more...

Jul 17, 2006

The Decline of Beards in Warfare: Increasingly banned in modern combat a rebirth is underway

Shoichi Yokoi Japanese Warrior: Carried on a one man war for 28 years on Guam after World War Two

The Beard went from being the nearly only universal item in every army to being prohibited nearly everywhere and is now making a resurgence. more...

Jul 9, 2006

France vs Libya in Chad 1980-1987: Col Muhmar Qadhafi had a hunger for his neighbor to the south

The resourceful Sergeant remained hidden on an island just three times the size of Washigton DC for three decades after world war two, remaining faithful to his oath more...

Jun 29, 2006

Category: Modern War

Between 1980 and 1987 Libyan forces of Col Muhmar Qadhafi invaded its neighbor Chad three times, ultimately being forced out by France. more...

Jun 17, 2006

700 Years of Longbows in War: Fors a hundred years after the Battle of Agincourt the Longbow was the king of battle

Henry Wirz 1865 War Criminal

The Longbow came from humble origins in 12th Century Wales, ended Medieval Combat, and found itself on European battlefields as late as 1940. more...

Jun 3, 2006

Missouri Guerilla Campaign Pt1

Commander of the Andersonville Confederate Prison was the first of the world’s war criminals. He was the only soldier executed in the aftermath of the American Civil War more...

May 22, 2006

The Pirate State of Fiume 1920

In the American Civil War one of the worst insurgent conflicts of modern history was fought between Confederate Partisan Rangers and Union Redlegs more...

May 20, 2006

The Last Stand of the Spartans: The Story of the 300 who stood against an army.

Gabriele D'Annunzio was the first of the 20th Century Fascists and last of the pirate kings in modern history more...

May 14, 2006

20th Century Genghis Khan: Crazy White Russian General Baron Ungern von Sternberg

The most famous of all holding actions in military history where 300 Spartans made an Alamo of a mountain pass in Greece. more...

May 7, 2006

The WWII Hybrid Battleship Carriers of Japan: The Hyuga and Ise Converted Battlecarriers

The crazy life of white Russian Major General Baron Ungern von Sternberg, psychopathic warlord of Mongolia and Military Buddhist more...

Aug 6, 2009

Category: WW II History

Meant to bridge the gap between carriers and surface ships, the old battleships Ise and Hyuga of the Japanese Navy underwent an odd conversion more...

Jul 15, 2009

The Japanese Mogami Class Cruisers: Imperial Navy Cruisers of the Rising Sun in World War II

Category: WW II History

The Mogami class heavy cruisers of the Imperial Japanese Navy were a supporting actor in the great naval Battles in the Pacific in World War Two more...

Use of the SKS Today: Still In Active Service

A product of WWII, SKS rifle, withdrawn from Soviet front line use in the 1950s is still seen all over the world in military and police use. more...

SKS Assault Rifle Variants: Russian Yugo Chinese Albanian and East German Designs

Designed in the Soviet Union the SKS rifle was produced in no less than 8 countries in several variants over the past sixty years. more...

Union Submarines of the Civil War: From the Alligator to the Intelligent Whale

From a slow start the US Navy experimented with several submarines in the Civil War. more...

Submarines of the US Civil War: Union and Confederate Submersibles 1861-1865

The Accidental Army Documentary: The Amazing True Story of the Czechoslovak Legion

Both sides in the Civil War designed and built submarines of various kinds with mixed results. more...

Apr 29, 2009

Category: WW I History

The 1914-1920 Czech Legion is the focus of a new documentary entitled "The Accidental Army: The Amazing True Story of the Czechoslovak Legion" by the Czech Legion Project more...

Apr 28, 2009

Lyudmila Pavlichenko Sniper Super Star: Hero of the Soviet Union and Legendary Marksman

Category: WW II History

Lyudmila Pavlichenko became a legend during the Sieges of Odessa & Sevastopol in 1941-42. Her story made her an international celebrity and furthered the war effort. more...

Mar 11, 2009

The Bronze Soldier of Tallinn: Controversial Monument to Soviet Soldiers Killed in World War Two

Category: WW II History

Erected over the graves of Soviet war dead in 1947 Tallinn, the monument became a controversial symbol in post cold war Estonia more...

Feb 8, 2009

The Georgian Pikes of the Civil War: Joe Browns Toothpicks Tried to Stop Sherman’s 1864 March

Strong-willed Georgia Governor Joe Brown squandered thousands of scarce dollars on an order for 10,000 Pikes to defend his state during the US Civil War. more...

New Sniper Rifles for the US Army and Marines: The old M-40 and M-24 Rifles are soon to be replaced

Category: Modern War

The US Army and Marine Corps (USMC) are currently replacing (augmenting?) their tried and true bolt action sniper weapons with new semi-auto designs. more...

US Army SDM Marksman Program: Squad Designated Marksmen in the GWOT

Category: Modern War

Long a practice of Warsaw Pact Soviet Battle doctrine, the US Army undertook development of a Squad Designated Marksmen program in the early 21st Century. more...

Dec 5, 2008

Hollywood Heroes in World War Two: Actors and World War Two Service

Category: WW II History

Most were not famous at the time, but history would remember these actors, directors and producers more for what they would accomplish later than for the War. more...

Dec 5, 2008

Famous Americans in World War Two: They also served in often little known WWII service.

Category: WW II History

Most were not famous at the time, but history would remember these writers, prophets, boxers and musicians more for what they would accomplish later than for the war. more...

Nov 12, 2008

The Tsars Battleship Russalka: Cutting Edge RussianMonitor built to Control the 19th Century Baltic

Category: WW I History

Built on the same design of the USS Monitor, the Russalka guarded St Petersburg for 30 years more...

Oct 12, 2008

The US M-2 Backpack Flamethrower: Used in World War Two Korea and Vietnam

Category: Modern War

Used by the US and her Allies for more than sixty years, the M-2 series of flamethrowers have been the mainstay weapon of this class. more...

Sep 22, 2008

Mystery Ship Uncovered by Hurricane Ike: Unknown Vessel Found on Beach Could be from Civil War

Category: Modern War

What could be a Civil War blockade runner recently found exposed on the beach near Gulf Shores Alabama after Hurricane Ike. more...

Aug 27, 2008

Amedeo Guillet Cavalry Hero of WWII: The Last Italian Knight and Legend of the Desert

Category: WW II History

Flamboyant Italian Lt. Amedeo Guillet, with his motley Gruppo Bande a Cavallo Amhara, became the ghost of the desert in Eritrea and northern Ethiopia during WWII more...

Aug 26, 2008

The Last Cavalry Charges: Mounted on Horses they Rode into Battle in WWII

Category: WW II History

World War Two Saw the Final Hurrah of Horse Mounted Cavalry. Horsemen from the US, Britain, Poland and Italy made the last cavalry charges of the 20th Century. more...

Jul 30, 2008

US Special Forces Legend Larry Thorne: Green Beret hero who had served under three flags

Category: Modern War

Larry A Thorne had served three different flags in his twenty years in the combat arms trade. A hero in his native Finland he is also remembered in the United States. more...

Jul 12, 2008

Zhemchug Vs the Emden 1914: The Sucker Punch Cruiser Battle of WWI

Category: WW I History

The cruisers Emden of the German Navy and Zhemchug of the Russian Navy were matched on paper but not in actuality. more...

Jun 25, 2008

Soviet Space Based Nuke: The USSRs Secret FOBS system and the R-36O Rocket

Category: Modern War

The Soviet Union had a brilliant Space-based nuclear weapon, the Fractional Orbital Bombardment System, housed on a SS-18 R-36 Rocket it could strike anywhere. more...

Jun 21, 2008

Lothar von Arnauld Ace of U-Boats: WWI Submarine Captain Sank More Ships than any man in History

Spy Scholar Dr. Sylvanus Morley: The Anthropologist Who Came in from the Cold

The Submariner's Ace of Aces has to be Lothar von Arnauld de la Periere, the gentleman skipper of U-35 that sank almost 200 ships in World War One. more...

May 26, 2008

Category: WW I History

The book wormy anthropologist Sylvanus Griswold Morley used his studies and his camera as a cover to become a very successful US spy during World War One and an inspirati more...

May 26, 2008

The Axis World War II Airlink: Germany Italy and Japan strived to form an air Communication Bridge

Category: WW II History

With secret submarine voyages taking months, the Axis looked into a rapid communication air link to keep in contact during World War Two. more...

Apr 22, 2008

Yugoslav Submarines: Cold War Service and Demise of the Yugoslavian Submarine Fleet

Category: Modern War

The coastal navy of Yugoslavia and its successor Montenegro employed a number of submarine designs for more that seventy years. The remnants are now for sale. more...

Apr 21, 2008

US Survival Knives in Space: US Astronauts Carried a Wide Array of Edged Weapons

Category: Modern War

From the first Mercury missions to todays Space Shuttle flights US Astronauts have been armed with rugged edged weapons. more...

Mar 30, 2008

US Horse Marines: USMC Mounted Marines and their use in the 20th Century

Category: Modern War

The US Marine Corps used horses often over the course of their service. The golden age of these Horse Marines was 1909-1938. more...

Mar 3, 2008

Lt Michael Murphy MOH: First Naval Winner of the Medal of Honor since Vietnam

The Madsen Machinegun: The First Light Machinegun Still Lives

Lt Michael Murphy was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in 2007 after being mortally wounded while leading his Seal unit in Afghanistan in 2005. more...

Feb 21, 2008

Category: Modern War

Designed in 1896 in Denmark, the Madsen Light Machinegun has served dozens of countries in more than a hundred years of warfare from 1904 to the present day more...

Feb 20, 2008

Luxembourg in World War Two: The Tiny Duchy that Roared Against Germany

Category: WW II History

Small Luxembourg, shamed by her performance under German occupation in World War One, vowed to fight in World War Two. more...

Feb 19, 2008

Record Setting Firing of Railgun: US Navy’s Electromagnetic Railgun EMRG Test Fires

Category: Modern War

The US Navy has tested the worlds largest rail gun making history in the evolution of large gun technology. more...

Feb 17, 2008

The Lancastria Sinking Tragedy: Unknown Disaster of the British Army

Category: WW II History

The Troopship Lancastria, carrying as many as 9,000 British Army soldiers of the defeated BEF was sunk while trying to escape France in 1940. more...

Jan 27, 2008

V2 Rocket Lauched From Carrier: USS Midway Fired Captured Nazi V-2 in Operation Sandy in 1947.

St Maurice of the Theban Legion: Patron Saint of the Infantry, Infantryman, Alpini and Swiss Guards.

In 1947 the largest warship afloat, the USS Midway launched the most formidable weapon of the twentieth century, a ballistic missile, in its first naval test. more...

Jan 22, 2008

Dominican Republic Tanks in Battle: The Swedish L60 Formed the Backbone of the Island's Armored Force

Saint Maurice, commander of the all-Christian Theban Legion is remembered as the patron saint of the infantry. more...

Jan 1, 2008

Category: Modern War

Two dozen well-used Swedish L60 tanks served the island republic for forty years and even fought US Marines in 1965. more...

Dec 22, 2007

St. Barbara Patron Saint of Arty: Military Saint of Explosives and Artillery of All Sorts

USS Somers Mutiny 1842: The Only Known American Mutiny on the High Seas

St Barbara is one of the most well known of the class of military saints of the Early Christian Church. She is venerated by artillerymen all over the world. more...

Dec 9, 2007

Allied Interventionists in Russia: During the Russian Civil War 1918-1925

The only known US Naval mutiny in documented history ended in 1842 with three mutineers having their necks prematurely lengthened. more...

Oct 31, 2007

Category: Modern War

The Armies of Britain, France, the US, Greece, Japan, Serbia, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Italy, and Canada intervened in the Russian Civil War each for their own motive. more...

Oct 28, 2007

Czech Volunteers in Russia WWI: The Origin of the Czech Legion 1914-1917

The Women's Battalions of Death: Russian Amazon Soldiers of World War One 1917

The Czech Legion started from humble beginnings in 1914 and ended up as one of the last reliable units on the World War One Eastern Front. more...

Oct 25, 2007

Category: Modern War

A look at the over 40,000 Russian women who served in non-combatant and in direct combat roles in the Armies of the Tsar and the Provisional Government in World War One more...

Oct 18, 2007

Baratov's Corps Combat Record: Last of the Tsar's Armies Fought Long After Their War had Ended

Category: Modern War

Baratov's cavalry corps in Persia, forgotten and far from home during the Russian Revolution, refused to stop fighting during World War One. more...

Oct 16, 2007

Formation of the Red Army Cavalry: The Konarmia 1st Cavalry Army of General Budyonny in Civil War

Category: Modern War

The 1st Cavalry Army of General Budyonny was formed in 1918 to give the Red Army a mobile striking force and rapid reaction reserve in the Russian Civil War. more...

Oct 8, 2007

The Red Army 1917-1923: Victor of the Russian Civil War

Category: Modern War

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. more...

The Northern White Army 1918-1920: Russian Civil War Force Led by General EK Miller

Centered in the frozen wind-swept White Sea region, a small force of White troops held out against the Reds with the help of a few thousand Interventionist troops. more...

The White Russian Armies 1917-1923: An Overview of the White Forces in the Russian Civil War

The Military History of Tonga: Pacific Kingdom has Fought in Two World Wars and is Still Going

The Russian Civil War pitted communist Red armies against counter-revolutionary White armies in a six year long armed struggle. This is a look at those White forces. more...

Sep 11, 2007

The Gatling Gun 1862- Present: First Machine Gun and Herald of Modern Warfare

With a population of slightly over 100,000 the tiny Pacific kingdoms has fought with honor and held the peace around the world for the past hundred years. more...

Aug 31, 2007

Category: Modern War

The Gatling Gun, invented by a young man from North Carolina for the Union Army, brought about the beginnings of modern warfare and still haunts the battlefield today. more...

Aug 15, 2007

The 25th Infantry Regiment US Army: The Buffalo Soldiers Served for Almost a Hundred Years with Honor

The Fulton Skyhook STAR System: Used by the CIA USAF and USN in the Cold War for Impossible Missons

These volunteer foot soldiers, drawn from across the country, fought as a segregated unit from 1868 until 1949 from Cuba to the Philippines and back with honor. more...

Jul 31, 2007

Category: Modern War

Invented by an adventurer, the Skyhook Surface to Air Recovery System was a unique answer to a very relevant problem in the Cold War. more...

Jul 9, 2007

The Post War Life of the Tacomas: The Frigates of the PF-03 Class Served 14 Different Navies

Johnny Cash Comes to Iraq: A Patch for an Army National Guard Unit Immortalizes his lyrics

Meant to be a wartime stopgap and quickly discarded by the US Navy and Royal Navy, the ships of the Tacoma Class went on to sail every ocean for another 50 years. more...

Jun 29, 2007

Category: Modern War

A picture of a patch from an Army National Guard Unit in Iraq brought about a search for its background. more...

Jun 23, 2007

Russian Imperial Guard 1905-1916: The Twilight Years, 1905 Revolution and World War One

Category: Modern War

The Russian Imperial Guards formed in 1683 from 50 childhood playmates by Peter the Great had by 1905 swollen to a force of over 50,000 men and saved the throne once more more...

Jun 22, 2007

The Russian Imperial Guards: Origins and History 1683-1905

Sixty Five Years of Service: The USCGC Storis (WMEC -38) was the Last Surviving Veteran of WWII

Tthe Russian Imperial Guards founded in 1683 by Peter the Great as the first truely modern elite Russian army and fought throughout the world from Narva to Mukden. more...

Jun 2, 2007

Tales from Spandau: Nazi War Criminals and the Cold War 1949-1988

The unique Coast Guard Cutter Storis served seven decades through two wars performing search and rescue, icebreaking, law enforcement, convoy escort, and exploration. more...

May 27, 2007

The USCGC Icarus vs Uboat U-352: Outmatched Coast Guard Cutter Sinks Deadly Submarine off NC Coast

The notorious Berlin military prison for seven of Hitler's worst henchmen was run by Britian, France, The US and the Soviet Union for 39 years during the Cold War. more...

May 10, 2007

The SAS in Gambia 1981: Three British Commandos Recaptured an Entire Country

Fighting a better armed opponent three times her size the underdog coast guard cutter Icarus fought and sank a German u-boat on the surface with no casualties. more...

Apr 27, 2007

Category: Modern War

When the leader of the Commonwealth nation of the Gambia needed his country back after a coup, the SAS sent three crack commandos who got the job done in 72 hours more...

Apr 26, 2007

Admiral Stark at Port Arthur 1904: Scapegoat Naval Commander in the Russo-Japanese War

Scuttling of the High Seas Fleet: The German Navy Self Destructed to Save its Honor

Like Admiral Kimmel at Pearl Harbor in 1941, Russian Admiral Stark was the incorrect scapegoat for defeat in 1904 at the hands of the same attacker. more...

Apr 23, 2007

Evgeniy Rodionov Soldier Martyr: The 19 year old New Russian Orthodox Saint of Chechnya

Interned at the close of World War One in Scotland the German fleet chose to scuttle itself at anchor rather than surrender more...

Apr 21, 2007

Category: Modern War

Much of his story has become legendary in a Russia searching for heroes in a war with few of them. more...

Apr 19, 2007

Battleship Imp Aleksander III: The Russian battleship that fought in WWI and the Civil War

Ludwig Lew Wetzel Indian Fighter: Carried on a One-Man Thirty Years War in Ohio and West Virginia

The battleship, built by the last Tsar of russia and named for his father, served in two wars under at least five flags. more...

Apr 12, 2007

Category: Medieval Wars

In the 18th century Ohio frontier Ludwig "Lewis" Wetzel served as the boogeyman of the forests on his one-man revenge-fueled warpath more...

Apr 9, 2007

Secret MiGs Flown By the USAF: The US Flew Dozens of MiG Fighters in a Classified Cold War Project

Belgian Peacekeeper Massacre: 1994 Heroic UN Last Stand in Kigali, Rwanda

During the late, great Cold War the US flew a number of "acquired" MiG fighters in a secret program over the deserts of Nevada. more...

Mar 31, 2007

Category: Modern War

The Rwandan Genocide of 1994 started with the last stand of a force of Belgian UN Peacekeepers in Kigali who fought to the end in an impossible situation. more...

Mar 14, 2007

Soviet Afghan Battle for Hill 3234: 1988 Bloody Stand During the Soviet Afghan War

Category: Modern War

As part of Operation Magistral the 9th Company of the 345th Guards Airborne Regiment took and held a mountain outnumbered 10 to one by Mujahideen more...

Mar 12, 2007

Military History of Liechtenstein: 200 years of Liechtenstein 's Armed Forces

US Air Combat Losses to the USSR: Twenty US - Soviet Shoot Down Incidents in the Cold War

The landlocked 'postage stamp' country in central Europe has faced war and recently had to fend off one of its neighbors who invaded in the night. more...

Mar 2, 2007

Famous Minie Ball Pregnancy: Facts on the Civil War Urban Legend

Between 1950 and 1970 there were a score of US military aircraft shot down by the military of the Soviet Union in undeclared war. more...

Feb 27, 2007

US Navy Railway Guns France 1918: 14-inch naval rifles served ashore with the AEF in World War One

Woman impregnated when hit by bullet that shot Civil War soldier's testicles. more...

Feb 18, 2007

Saladin Moslem Military Hero: Conqueror of the Kingdom of Heaven and opponent of Richard the Lionh

Short of everything but ingenuity, the United States Army used a special unit of long range artillery provided by the US Navy in WWI. more...

Feb 15, 2007

Category: Medieval Wars

Saladin united the Middle East and fought two separate armies of crusaders. He is seen as a great military leader by both the east and the west. more...

Feb 2, 2007

Modern Military Duels: One on one combat for honor since the Napoleonic era.

Order of Battle Direlwanger units: The Table of Organisation of this infamous unit.

While the ancient blood feud known as the duel was in decline in Western Europe it was on the rise elsewhere. more...

Jan 24, 2007

Category: Modern War

Starting with a company sized group of under a hundred poachers in 1940 it grew to a full sized division of nearly 6000 by 1945. Its ORBAT and TOE is detailed below. more...

Jan 18, 2007

The Dirlewanger Brigade: The Most Infamous of all SS Combat Units of World War Two

Category: Modern War

Made up of criminals and led by a rapist and child molester it's was Hitler's real life Dirty Dozen. more...

Jan 9, 2007

Henry Walton Grinnell: Naval Hero of the Civil War and Japanese Naval Advisor

The Battle of the Yalu River 1894: First modern Naval Engagement Between Japan and China

A naval adventurer who saw service from New Orleans to the Yalu River and back over the last half of the 19th Century. more...

Jan 3, 2007

The FN FAL NATO Battle Rifle: The Free World's Right Arm

The Battle of the Yalu River took place on September 17, 1894 between the Chinese and Japanese Navies during the Sino-Japanese War. more...

Dec 29, 2006

General Shelby In Mexico 1865: Undefeated in the Civil War the last brigade of the confederacy melted into history

The FAL was a revolutionary and very successful design that served the countries of the free world throughout the Cold War. more...

Dec 16, 2006

The Final end of the Austrian Navy: The Last Austrian Fleet retired in 2006

Offering his services as well as those of his legion, General Shelby found no takers. more...

Dec 8, 2006

U-977 Last of the U-boats: Surrendering 3 Months after Hitler’s Death She still causes controversy today.

With a last subtle gasp the flags of Austria's last fleet has been furled more...

Nov 27, 2006

The Confederate Marine Corps: The US Civil War forgotten naval force fought on land and the sea in every theater from beginning to end

The story of the last uboat afloat and its 107 day epic voyage--almost all after wars end. Some say it was ferrying Hitler and Nazi Gold to South America. more...

Nov 9, 2006

Rogers Rangers Rules and Creed: The last ten of Rogers Rules along with the Modern Ranger Creed

Never stronger than six hundred men, they fought as grey coated leathernecks to the honor of the Corps. more...

Nov 7, 2006

Rogers Rangers Rules 1765: The original field manual for irregular warfare and special operations

Rules Number 20-28 of Rogers famous 1765 Standing Orders as well as the current Ranger Creed used today by the US Army Rangers. more...

Nov 1, 2006

Elba -Napoleons Consolation Prize: The ten month history of the Imperial Elban Army and Navy 1814-1815

The 28 Rules below were the standing orders of operation of the famous unit of colonial irregulars. These created the first field manual of commando and are still in use. more...

Oct 21, 2006

The British Army in 1914: World War One's Professional Fighting Force.

Napoleon was given a garden of Eden by the victorious allies that had defeated him in 1814. He soon turned it into the most heavily armed outpost on the planet. more...

Oct 10, 2006

Category: Modern War

In a war that began with million man armies of conscripts fighting it out toe to toe, the Royal Army distinguished itself in personal combat. more...

Oct 4, 2006

The 1914 Army of Montenegro: The postage stamp sized kingdom that fought for every hill in world war one

Category: Modern War

Montenegro began the war as the poorest equipped of all of the 1914 armies but never faltered, and often outfought its enemies. more...

Sep 27, 2006

The 1914 Army of Austria-Hungary: Crossing its borders to fight both Russia and Serbia at the same time the Austrian army in world war one was vastly overextended

Category: Modern War

Well equipped and fairly modern by eastern European standards, the Army of the Dual Monarchy suffered one of the worst morale problems imaginable. more...

Sep 20, 2006

The French army of 1914: The multinational army of the French Republic proved it knew how to fight and die for its country

Category: Modern War

Beginning the war dressed for fashion and equipped with the most unreliable weapons, the redoubtable French "Poilus" stopped the German juggernaut and saved his country. more...

Sep 12, 2006

Modern Sword use 1700-Present: Military use of the sword from the Napoleonic eras through today

The Renaissance swords in battle: From Toledo Spain to the Streets of Verona the rapier was the sword of the enlightened era

Relegated to a cosmetic role on the battlefield as firearms became the death dealer swords still had a place in the worlds military more...

Sep 10, 2006

Category: Medieval Wars

Emerging from the huge cumbersome swords of the middle ages, the slender and sleek rapier became a status symbol and gave birth to the martial art of fencing more...

Sep 4, 2006

The Spatha and the Knightsword: Used by the Romans and Medieval Knights these swords gave birth to Myth and Legend

Category: Medieval Wars

Growing from the Roman Gladius, these swords became the legendary blades of the middle ages that lasted in combat in one form or another for over a thousand years. more...

Aug 30, 2006

Ancient Swords in Combat: A look at the swords birth and evolution in the Bronze and Iron Ages

The 1969 Soccer War on the Ground: Machetes Mausers and Garands versus Howitzers and tanks in the jungle

Starting around 2000 BC Swords evolved from primitive basic edged weapons into a carbon steel instruments of death over the span of two thousand years more...

Aug 23, 2006

Category: Modern War

The poorly equipped- even by third world standards-Honduran army had its hands full against the modern El Salvadoran invasion force in 1969. more...

Aug 16, 2006

Simo Häyhä the Greatest Sniper: Credited with as many as 700 kills during the Finnish Winter War

Category: Modern War

Using a bolt action rifle with iron sights this hardy little outdoorsman killed over five hundred Soviet invaders single handedly during the Winter War of 1939-1940. more...

Aug 4, 2006

The Ground War in the Falklands: British Victories at Goose Green, Tumbledown and Mt Longdon won the War

Category: Modern War

After an initial embarrassment, the Royal Marines and Royal Army retook the Falkland islands in a three week ground campaign more...

Jul 30, 2006

The Sea War in the Falklands: The Royal Navy and Argentine Armada Fought for Control of the South Atlantic

The USS Cairo at Vicksburg: First Ship Sunk by a Naval Mine in Warfare

In 1982 the world saw the only major naval conflcit of the latter half of the 20th Century. This was a war of the antiship cruise missle, submarines and aircraft carriers more...

Jul 26, 2006

The 12 Battles of the Isonzo: Italy and Austria lost a generation in the Alps in 12 pointless battles

The Ironclad Cairo was sunk during the US Civil War by two Confederate sailors and their homemade naval mines, ushering in a new era in naval warfare more...

Jul 20, 2006

Category: Modern War

During the First World War the Isonzo valley lay on the Alpine Front between Italy and Austria-Hungary and was the scene of a succession of twelve battles more...

Jul 11, 2006

Landsknechts Colorful mercenaries: Paid soldiers of the 16th century Holy Roman Empire.

Category: Medieval Wars

In the high Renaissance in Europe (c.e.1500-1600) Landsknechts, were the highest paid mercenary troops of the time. Their ranks included pikemen, swordemen, and gunners more...

Jul 4, 2006

George Tweed Robinson Crusoe USN: The radioman that held out for 31 months on Guam in WWII

RAF Foreign Legions in WWII: The occupied countries of europe continued the fight from Britain

Radioman George Tweed lived at large for 31 months on the Island of Guam, hiding from nearly 20,000 Japanese troops. more...

Jun 24, 2006

Irma Grese Beast of Auschwitz: The most notorious SS guard in the history of Auschwitz

The Airforces of Czechoslovakia, Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, France, Greece and Poland all carried the war on long after their nations fell under occupation. more...

Jun 10, 2006

The BroomHandle Mauser: C96 Mauser Pistol was Used From Winston Churchill to Han Solo

A young girl without much prospects in Nazi Germany became known as "Beautiful Beast" in the death camps she helped run. more...

May 28, 2006

Missouri Guerilla Campaign Pt2

In military service for more than fifty years, the C96 Mauser Military Pistol ushered in the era of semi-automatic weapons on the modern battlefield. more...

May 22, 2006

(Part Two)the insurgent conflict fought between Confederate Partisan Rangers and Union Redlegs more...

May 15, 2006

160 Years on The Border

Dont Hang up Your Spurs: The Modern Military Horse in Combat

The US Army is returning to the guard the southern border of its country. This is a mission that is nearly as old as its country. more...

May 14, 2006

Tannenberg - Lost Chance: The Russian Army Lost its Chance to Remove Germany from the War

in the opening battles of world war two cavalry was deemed worthless. However it never faded from use and still has a place. more...

Apr 29, 2006