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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...
Spain since the Reconquista
Wayne H. Bowen
Subject: Military History »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Spain since the Reconquista Introduction Spanish military history since the Reconquista has traditionally been understood as occurring within ...
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...
World War II and the Far East
Kaushik Roy
Subject: Military History »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
World War II and the Far East Introduction The Japanese Blitzkrieg started on 7/8 December 1941. While the US Pacific Fleet was bombed at Pear...
World War II, Russo-German War
Evan Mawdsley
Subject: Military History »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
World War II, Russo-German War Introduction The Russian-German War lasted from the German invasion of 22 June 1941 until 8 May 1945 and is oft...
Zulu Wars
John Laband
Subject: Military History »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
Zulu Wars Introduction The term “Zulu Wars” is an imprecise one, because there is no single, generally accepted understanding of what it encom...
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