Militares

Stalingrado ha pasado a la historia como la batalla urbana por excelencia y como una de las más grandes, duras y sangrientas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, en particular, y de toda la Historia Militar en general. Durante cuatro meses del otoñoinvierno de 19421943, las fuerzas alemanas y soviéticas (...)

In stark contrast to the rather modest performance of its large surface fleet in the Second World War, the Italian Navy's smallest units achieved its most spectacular successes. It made a speciality of unconventional methods of attack - explosive motor boats, human torpedoes and miniature (...)

Nominally at least, the bloody and ruinous eight-year war fought between Iran and Iraq was a confrontation dominated by operations on land. The traditional impression is that the resources devoted to naval warfare were minute in comparison to those of its major land battlefields. As so often, the (...)

Well away from the major battlefields on the ground in the Iran-Iraq War, and hidden from the gaze of the curious public, the navies and air forces of the two belligerents contested the waters of the Persian (or Arabian) Gulf. This naval aspect of the war still remains largely unknown and hugely (...)