Militares

Waterloo, morne plaine... Ces trois mots résonnent encore à la mémoire des Français.Par-delà les écrits de Victor Hugo, c'est pour eux le souvenir précis d'une défaite plutôt que celui d'une bataille et, selon les opinions, le point final d'une fantastique épopée ou d'un terrible despotisme. (...)

According to the International Institute for Strategic Studies, there are 60,000 tanks in active service worldwide. With 7,450 tanks, China has by far the most. This is followed by North Korea with 3,500 tanks. Tanks might not have been a huge component in modern warfare in the past two decades, (...)

World War II saw the appearance of numerous revolutionary armaments on both sides of the conflict that would radically change the nature of warfare, from jet aircraft to the ballistic missile and the atomic bomb. The greatest conflagration in history also saw the conception of the first (...)

A compelling history of the decline of an army from the triumph of victory in 1918 to defeat in 1940 and why this happened. A salutary warning for modern Britain.The British Army won a convincing series of victories between 1916 and 1918. But by 1939 the British Army was an entirely different (...)