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Napoleonic Wars, The
Alexander Mikaberidze
Subject: Military History »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
The Napoleonic Wars Introduction The Napoleonic Wars represent a turning point in European affairs and a major break with the past. The starti...
Nimitz, Chester
Douglas V. Smith
Subject: Military History »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
Chester Nimitz Introduction Fleet Admiral Chester William Nimitz, US Navy, is arguably the most important American naval officer of the 20th ce...
Nuclear Weapons
J.R. McKay
Subject: Military History »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
Nuclear Weapons Introduction Since the end of the World War II, nuclear weapons have fascinated humanity, providing a sense of security for man...
Occupations and Military Government
Bianka Adams
Subject: Military History »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Occupations and Military Government Introduction According to international law, a territory is under occupation when hostile armed forces ass...
Pacifism
Sandi Cooper
Subject: Military History »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
Pacifism Introduction Along with other “isms” such as feminism, pacifism was coined in the late 19th to early 20th centuries to describe a set...
Poltava, Battle of
Alexander Mikaberidze
Subject: Military History »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
Battle of Poltava Introduction The battle of Poltava was the defining engagement of the Great Northern War (1700–1721), the prolonged conflict ...
Prisoners
Thomas J. Ward
Subject: Military History »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Prisoners Introduction How to deal with captured combatants is a problem as old as warfare itself. Execution, slavery, conscription, imprisonm...
Psychiatric Casualties
Eric Dorn Brose
Subject: Military History »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
Psychiatric Casualties Introduction Most readers from the United States, Britain, and many other countries who have yet to investigate the ...
Religio-Military Orders
Jonathan Riley-Smith
Subject: Military History »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Religio-Military Orders Introduction Christian society generated two types of religiomilitary order: military orders and Christian orders of c...
Roses, Wars of the
Michael Hicks
Subject: Military History »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
Wars of the Roses Introduction The Wars of the Roses is the 19th-century name given to the English civil wars fought roughly between 1450 and 1...
Russian and Soviet Armed Forces
David R. Stone
Subject: Military History »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
Russian and Soviet Armed Forces Introduction The literature on Russian and Soviet military history is dominated by one question: the availabilit...
Russian Campaign of 1812
Alexander Mikaberidze
Subject: Military History »
Date Added: 2012-07-24
Russian Campaign of 1812 Introduction The Franco-Russian alliance created at Tilsit in 1807 and reinforced at Erfurt in 1808 withered away by ...
Russian Civil War, 1918-1921
Roger Reese
Subject: Military History »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
Russian Civil War, 1918–1921 Introduction The Russian civil war raged from 1918 to 1921, though some date its origins to the October Revolutio...
Russian Military History
Reina Pennington
Subject: Military History »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
Russian Military History Introduction Russian and Soviet military history extends from the time of the Mongol invasions to the present. It pres...
Russo-Japanese War
John W. Steinberg
Subject: Military History »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
Russo-Japanese War Introduction The historiography of the Russo-Japanese War can be divided into three phases. The first, the period between th...
Science and Technology in War
William J. Astore
Subject: Military History »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
Science and Technology in War Introduction Science, technology, and warfare exist in a nexus of dependencies and possibilities. Science may be ...
Seven Years' War
Patrick Speelman
Subject: Military History »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
Seven Years’ War Introduction The Seven Years’ War was a vast conflict and its voluminous historiography reflects its multitheater nature. Tradi...
Spanish Civil War
George Esenwein
Subject: Military History »
Date Added: 2012-07-24
Spanish Civil War Introduction It is well known that, like the Catholic Church, the military in Spain has long played a key role in public aff...
Stalingrad, Battle of
Reina Pennington
Subject: Military History »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
Battle of Stalingrad Introduction The battle of Stalingrad was part of the strategic conflict that occurred in the southwestern Soviet Union in...
Strategy
Beatrice Heuser
Subject: Military History »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
Strategy Introduction The term strategy is difficult to define and to circumscribe. It was not used in the Occident until the late 18th century...
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