Militares

Over the last 30 years, the technical' or armed pick-up truck has become arguably the most ubiquitous military land vehicle of modern warfare.Harking back to the armed Jeeps and Chevrolet trucks of the SAS and Long Range Desert Group in North Africa in World War II, the world's first insurgent (...)

France's colonial wars in sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia were very largely fought by an organization completely separate from both the home-defence Metropolitan Army and the Armée d'Afrique in Algeria. The Naval Troops (Troupes de la Marine) were volunteers, and earned a reputation for (...)

Amphibious assault ships have been at the centre of nearly all of Britain's expeditionary campaigns since World War II, from the Suez crisis of 1956 to operations as far afield as Borneo (1963 66), the Falklands (1982), Sierra Leone (2000) and Iraq (2003). In major operations such as Suez and the (...)

Faced with an increasingly formidable anti-ship cruise missile threat from the Soviet Union in the early days of the Cold War, and with the recent memory of the kamikaze threat from World War II, the USN placed a great priority on developing air defence cruise missiles and getting them to sea to (...)

Walter Katz (1913-1938), judío alemán, luchó como estudiante universitario contra el ascenso del nazismo desde principio de los años treinta. Por motivos raciales, en 1933 tuvo que abandonar su carrera académica y llegó a España, donde completó sus estudios en la Universidad de Madrid y obtuvo la (...)

The armoured car has an important place in the early history of Soviet armoured fighting vehicles (AFVs) - they were the most important AFV during the Russian Civil War and figured prominently in the mechanization of the Red Army that began in late 1929. The 1930s saw the development and production (...)

A lo mejor resulta que las guerras nos gustan mucho, porque si no fuera así, quizá no habría habido tantas. Pero tanto si nos agradan como si no, están ahí y pueden ser objeto de nuestros dardos de humor. Si no se pueden evitar, por lo menos despojémoslas de esas falsas capas de honor, gloria y (...)

Con el estallido de la Segunda Guerra Mundial se iniciaba un período de más de cinco años de duración durante el cual las ciudades y localidades alemanas iban a ser objeto de una sucesión de ataques aéreos sin parangón en la historia: de día por parte de los bombarderos estadounidenses y de noche (...)