France and England themselves provoked Hitler into new conquests, time after time missing opportunities to finish him off and nip World War II in the bud....

The Battle of Dien Bien Phu is difficult to compare in scale to Stalingrad or even El Alamein. The French side involved at most a division. But in terms of morale, it was...

A line is terrifying to infantry, but defenseless against cavalry; a square protects against cavalry, but exposes itself to cannon fire—and the entire outcome of the battle was decided not by the type of troops, but by whoever was able to close this circle of threats in time.

After the end of World War I, Bulgaria, a defeated country, experienced the "Second National Catastrophe", losing significant territories and facing harsh post-war...

This article will discuss the third and final act of Akhmatova's drama – the Moscow Act, when, as a result of two strategic defeats on the Oka and Ugra, the last great Jochid signed his own death warrant...

One Latin word in the papal ambassador's report turns the familiar picture of power in Rus' in the mid-13th century upside down...

Hitler used his old plans for two successive blitzkriegs. France was crushed. It was Soviet Russia's turn...

In such cases, they say the author's "spelling and style have been preserved." The unique report by Lieutenant Colonel Tarasov, an engineer in the Kamchatka Defense Region, recounts in detail the capture of the Soviet...

Four formations, a handful of commands – and in a minute a thousand soldiers are transformed from a column into a line, from a line into a square: the regulations of 1791 did not teach victory, they gave the French infantry a language in which...

Why did Hitler start a major war? Germany wasn't ready for war. In fact, a major war would have been suicide for the Third Reich....

In 1018, the Poles captured Kyiv. Twenty years later, Rus' pulled Poland back from the grave. The "eternal enmity" will have to be forgotten...

160 years have passed since the Austro-Prussian War, which ended a long period of rivalry between the two powers in Germany. The unification of Germany "from above" began, with Prussia becoming the core of the new empire.

Driven from the cities, the Viet Minh leaders and their army of 30 fighters took refuge in the remote mountainous region of Viet Bac. Uncle Ho was a master strategist: he decided to make the French presence in Vietnam...

The linear tactics of the 18th century gave way to the column not because it had become obsolete as an idea, but because the man in the ranks had changed—the professional, trained over the years, was replaced by a hastily recruited...

Having captured the greatest city in Eastern Europe, the Polish prince did not ascend the throne, but a month later calmly went home "cheerful" – and this strange gesture concealed the true intention of the 1018 campaign...

A resolution to the long-running conflict in Palestine is entirely possible, but only through compensation for the land and property once taken from Palestinians with income-generating capital....

Napoleon said of the hero of today's article that he was "made of the stuff marshals are made of."

They called him the "Black Pastor." And for good reason – it was Hudal who helped the sadist Mengele escape to Latin America. As he did with many other war criminals. And yet, there was no punishment, not even a symbolic one...

On how Count A.G. Orlov took advantage of the victory at Chesma...

Napoleon conducted his campaigns as a coherent series of operations—at the level of military art, for which there was no name in his era...

Stalin maneuvered to the last, seeking a way to avoid direct involvement in a major war. To avoid a World War I scenario where the Germans and Russians were pitted against each other, and all the fruits of victory went to...

Ho Chi Minh returned to Vietnam in 1941. The situation in the country was tense – independence supporters wanted to take advantage of the arrival of the Japanese to get rid of the French...

A single line from the Tale of Bygone Years, under the year 981, fueled the myth of primordial Russian-Polish hostility for two centuries. We analyze it word by word, along with the chronicle, an Arab merchant, and archaeologists, and discover that...

The ongoing hybrid war, aimed at exhausting and defeating Russia, is nothing new in history. The United States deployed a similar scenario during World War II.