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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...

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 ...

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