From the Assembly of Eamont in 927 to the partition of Ireland in 1922 – a thousand years of unification, each of which was not a design, but a reaction to crisis...

The navy of Peter the Great: initial setbacks followed by resounding victories. The navy's decline under Catherine I and Peter II...

Six days of fighting in central Dublin ended in defeat for the rebels. Executions and military justice turned this defeat into a turning point in Irish politics...

230 years ago, Napoleon Bonaparte's Italian army routed the Austro-Sardinian forces and eliminated the Kingdom of Sardinia from the war. The Austrians were left without their main ally in Italy.

Technology wars are among the most intense and, paradoxically, the most productive. There's an episode in the history of the Cold War that closely linked Japanese greed, American injustice, and...

85 years ago, the Wehrmacht routed the Greek army. King George II and the Greek government, along with the remnants of Greek and British troops, fled to Crete and Egypt. Greece fell in 24 days.

Each group of ships and boats operated in its own zone, which was tied to a specific border outpost with which the group worked closely....

The myth of "machine guns in the back" crumbles in the face of front-line reports from 1942: the figures show filtration and return to duty, not mass reprisals...

For decades, North Korea supported African countries fighting for independence through economic support, training, and arms supplies. And in January 1977...

After the war between Iran and Iraq escalated into trench warfare, both countries' economies were forced to adapt to the new reality. How did they cope?

A short series of articles on the results that can be achieved when the fleet is used politically correctly...

Let's talk about one of the "forgotten" detective episodes from the history of the House of Rurik—the mysterious death of the Kazan Tsarevich Abdul-Latyf in Kashira in 1517, for which many still blame...

After the Chinese retreated beyond the 38th parallel, the war on land became a trench war. But in the air, things were different. The impact of the Korean War on aviation deserves a separate discussion...

While there's a fair amount of information about the participation of Soviet Army and Air Force units in the 1979-1989 military operations in Afghanistan, few know about the actions of the KGB Border Troops there. And then...

From Polesia and Slutsk to Khingan and Mukden: the composition, techniques, and operations of the cavalry-mechanized groups under the command of I. A. Pliev...

Fyodor Shaklovity was the most loyal supporter of Princess Sophia; it was he, according to Prince Kurakin, who "made a great profit in the Cupid under Sophia."

This whole story is so extraordinary that it's hard to take it at face value. It's a truly stunning intelligence breakthrough in the entire history of the Cold War, even though it happened...

On April 5, 1242, on the ice of Lake Peipus, a twenty-year-old prince named Alexander defeated the crusader army and halted Catholic expansion into Rus' for several centuries...

After Bismarck's resignation, Caprivi, a career military man, was appointed chancellor. He was tasked with resolving colonial disputes with England and deciding whether to extend the reinsurance treaty with Russia.

On December 23, 1950, the jeep of General Walton Walker, commander of the Eighth Army, collided with a South Korean army truck that had crossed into oncoming traffic. General Matthew was forced to assume command of the army...

March 1944. Night. Seventy-six pilots escaped from a Nazi camp. Seven of the ten were soon caught and executed. But this escape was the most daring challenge ever posed to the guards and barbed wire...

This article reveals the history of information warfare in the USSR and Finland during the Soviet-Finnish War of 1939-1940.

On June 26, 1928, the St. Roch set sail from Vancouver on its maiden voyage. The schooner's crew consisted of 10 men, only three of whom had sea experience and only two of whom had been to the Arctic. However, Larsen believed...

Remembering the greats of the century, we identified the 10 best automobile designers of the 20th century. Among them are Cadillac founder Henry Leland, the incomparable Henry Ford, the world-famous...