Militares

Los pormenores de lo que sucedió a continuación aún hoy permanecen clasificados. Así debe ser por la seguridad de quienes todavía hacen uso de las tácticas, técnicas y procedimientos de abordaje en la Fuerza de Guerra Naval Especial. Tan solo puedo decir que no fue sencillo, ni tan limpio como (...)

Mientras desayunaba con sus mariscales el día de la batalla de Waterloo, Napoleón afirmó que Wellington era un mal general, que los británicos eran malos soldados y que antes del mediodía Francia obtendría una fácil victoria. Este hecho provocó que los historiadores le hayan acusado de un (...)

In the wake of the T-72 tank's poor performance in the 1991 Gulf War, the Kremlin instructed the Russian tank industry to drop the discredited T-72 designation in favour of the T-90 Vladimir. The T-90 was in fact a further evolution of the T-72 family, but the name change represented an important (...)

In the 1840s, Italy was a patchwork of states. The North was ruled by the Austrian Empire, the South by the Spanish-descended monarchy of the Two Sicilies. Over the next two decades, after wars led by Savoy/Piedmont and volunteers such as Garibaldi, an independent Kingdom of Italy emerged. These (...)

Although not as well-known as the V-1 buzz bomb and the V-2 missile, the first German missiles to see combat were anti-ship missiles, the Henschel Hs.293 guided missile and the Fritz-X guided bomb. These began to see extensive combat in the Mediterranean in 1943. In their most famous use, the (...)

The Battle of the Bulge raises many questions which, until now, have not been adequately answered: How did the major tank types perform during the battle? What were the specific lessons learned' from the combat? And did these lessons result in changes to tanks in the subsequent months?Offering (...)

The restoration of the Meiji Imperial dynasty in 1868, after 250 years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, decisively opened Japan to the outside world and the monarchy embraced modernization, including the creation of a new Westernized army. However, this modernization process was resisted by the (...)

Con la muerte de Eduardo III en 1377 se pusieron en marcha una serie de acontecimientos que culminaron en un conflicto sucesorio iniciado en el año 1455 entre las casas de York y Lancaster, en la conocida como guerra de las Rosas. Uno de los literatos que más ha retratado esta época es Shakespeare, (...)

World War II was a significant period of development for American missile programs, during which time the US built pioneering examples of guided weapons systems. However, whilst the German missiles of World War II are famous around the world, their American counterparts have remained shrouded in (...)

The 'Soixante quinze', France's legendary 75mm Modele 1897, was the first modern field gun, pioneering several critical innovations in field artillery designs, including a fast action breech and a soft recoil system. Although some of these features had been incorporated into earlier guns, the 75mm (...)