The halberd came into use among European infantry sometime around the 13th century and remained in this capacity for quite a long time – right up until the 17th century, and even later, already in the 18th century, it was still...

The first director of the Japanese North Sakhalin Oil Company, Vice Admiral Nakazato, managed to build a profitable business model for his enterprise....

Today we continue our story about the "armor of sunset." That is, an era of dramatic change in literally everything: in thinking, in technology, in military affairs. The old is still alive. It's close by, clinging to the new, loudly...

In 1917, Russia was a raging disaster. Everyone opposed the state: the grand dukes and the church, workers and peasants, the intelligentsia and capitalists with the bourgeoisie, Old Believers and national minorities. And...

Shortly before his death, Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke delivered a warning to the Reichstag. How did the military and political elite react?

The Russian Empire lost its legitimacy in the eyes of the people. The state ceased to express the highest values, to ensure the welfare and salvation of the country and its people....

After the Allies crossed the Rhine, they encountered numerous groups of "werewolves," mostly members of the Hitler Youth. Some areas were simply overrun with young...

During the Romanov reign, official historiographers mythologized the Romanovs' role to the extreme and denigrated their predecessors and rivals, including Ivan the Terrible and Boris Godunov.

Nikifor Grigoriev's anti-Soviet rebellion: successes and defeats. A fatal alliance with Nestor Makhno, the assassination of the ataman...

In our generally accepted understanding, the "Werwolf" is considered a myth invented by Goebbels, some kind of unsuccessful and powerless attempt by the Nazi leadership to organize nationwide resistance to the occupation...

Following the appointment of Benito Mussolini as Prime Minister on October 31, 1922, following his march on Rome, fascist forces began to establish control over Sicily, targeting socialist and...

In 1947, the Russian émigré journal "Chasovoy" published an article devoted to the prospects of a Third World War, which was motivated both by the author's fears of the imaginary Soviet threat to the West and by a call for...

By 1950, the stars had aligned: first, the Chinese civil war had ended, and the People's Republic of China had emerged. Second, the USSR had acquired its own "Bomb." Now it was time to think about a unified Korea...

During the establishment of the oil concession in Northern Sakhalin, Japan showed a strange acquiescence that later greatly harmed the development, but there were reasons for this...

Henry Tudor became king at the age of 18, in 1509. Naturally strong and agile, he was a fan of chivalry. He could test his skills and abilities by participating in tournaments. And he loved them...

Nikifor Grigoriev: service in the tsarist army, a meteoric rise after the February Revolution, the peak of his career and fame...

The development of combat tactics meant that only the nobility remained on the battlefield as knights, and they hardly fought anymore, merely serving as commanders. Meanwhile, the cavalry was divided into several types...

The reasons for France's defeat in 1940 continue to be debated to this day; one of them, it seems, is psychological and is reflected in the memoirs of Russian émigrés.

A translation of an article published in The New York Times about incidents involving US nuclear forces before 1981, with comments from the translator....

As they said in the 20th century, "the rifle begets power." Godunov secured the support of the elite Streltsy regiments and the service nobility. The Moscow berdyshes and arquebuses were entirely on his side...

The Battle of the Caribbean lasted nine and a half months—from February 16 to November 30, 1942. German and Italian submarine forces launched a massive operation to disrupt supply lines...

Repression in Crimea and R. Zemlyachka's activities on the peninsula. The pinnacle of her Soviet career, the fight against corruption and embezzlement.

Germany's last Atlantic "Festungs" held out steadfastly until May 10-11, 1945, despite the capitulation of the Reich....

The ancient Chinese invented not only the junk but also the compass. While the former remained a local achievement, the compass truly changed the human world. After all, it was its creation that set in motion a chain of events...