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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...
Submarine Warfare
Stephanie Cousineau
Subject: Military History »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
Submarine Warfare Introduction Few branches of military service are as captivating, as popularly thrilling and as discomfiting as the submarine...
Tactics
Steven D. Fratt
Subject: Military History »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
Tactics Introduction The study of tactics over time poses some problems for the researcher. In the original Greek and Latin, taktika/tactica me...
US Air Power
Joe Caddell
Subject: Military History »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
US Air Power Introduction The history of aviation can be divided into two basic categories, civilian and military. Sadly, the majority of the ...
Verdun, Battle of
Robert Foley
Subject: Military History »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
Battle of Verdun Introduction The battle of Verdun was the longest, if not the bloodiest, single battle in World War I. Launched by the German ...
War, Chemical and Biological
Marion Girard
Subject: Military History »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Chemical and Biological War Introduction Chemical weapons include arms that deploy gas, liquid, or solid substances with the intent of harming...
Women in the Military
Reina Pennington
Subject: Military History »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
Women in the Military Introduction Women have played a variety of military roles throughout history, although many historians overlooked those ...
World War I Origins
Dennis Showalter
Subject: Military History »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
World War I Origins Introduction The origins of World War I are best summarized in two contexts. The first stresses long-term issues such a...
World War I: The Western Front
Annika Mombauer
Subject: Military History »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
World War I: The Western Front Introduction The war that raged along the Western Front from 1914 to 1918 is among the most studied and controve...
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