Forty years ago, the United States launched Operation El Dorado Canyon in Libya. The American blitzkrieg in Libya dealt a powerful information blow to the Soviet Union.

The early warriors are sometimes considered Varangian, sometimes Slavic, and their warriors are considered swordsmen and horsemen, but the burials tell a different story: we see a multi-ethnic fusion of the north, the steppe, and Byzantium, and the ordinary warrior fought...

Nazi Germany's pre-war military pilot training system was one of the best in the world...

To counter the successful German armed steamships operating on Lake Tanganyika, the British Admiralty decided to dispatch two combat boats to the lake. Delivered by sea to Cape Town,...

The famous "bullet is a fool, bayonet is a fine fellow" has long been turned into a slogan of bayonet obsession, whereas behind it stood Suvorov's precise tactical system, where fire opened the battle, speed and eye...

About the famous inventor of steam engines...

330 years ago, Russian regiments under Tsar Peter Alekseevich captured Azov. Russia regained its strategic position in the Azov region...

Procopius wrote that each Slav had only two javelins and a shield, but behind this "chaotic forest mass" there was a coherent military system—and an analysis of how a militia of free men gradually...

Lev Nikolayevich Gumilyov occupies a special place in Russian humanities culture. An undisputed scholar, he is also considered one of the most respected figures among folk historians. Is this fair? Let's discuss...

The 18th-century infantry considered 25–30 kilometers per day to be the limit, but Suvorov's troops marched twice as far for several days in a row—and this figure is not due to daring, but to a school of training in which unconditional...

Although the battles of World War I were fought primarily in the European and Asian theaters, other corners of the globe were not spared from these turbulent events. One of them was the German...

In the 20th century, war ceased to be the work of armies: it stripped men of their uniforms and spread to factory floors, city blocks, and bread lines, making everyone a combatant—even those who had never...

Suvorov's army marched twice as fast per day as the European norm—and behind this figure lies not the prowess of a "natural genius," but a strict system of training, discipline, and calculation, which the commander himself...

On the participation of the armored cruiser Bayan in the first clash of the main forces of the fleets of the Russo-Japanese War....

War is a field for surprises and bad decisions. Having received information about the location of the enemy base camp from captured personnel in a Vietnamese field hospital, the Americans failed to act on it.

One of the Anglo-Saxons' arrogant attempts to solve their colonial problems, led by a British general whose luck ran out....

The tragic fate of Jean-Charles Pichegru, whom Napoleon, on the island of Saint Helena, called the most capable of the generals of the time of the Republic....

How, in one century, war ceased to be the private affair of kings and became the concern of the entire nation—and why this meant not the liberation of the people, but their total conscription...

160 years ago, the Armistice of Nikolsburg was signed. Austria, facing total defeat, agreed to all of Bismarck's demands.

Between Poltava and Cahul lies a forgotten half-century of Russian military history, and the main name in it belongs not to a commander, but to the engineer Christopher Minich, who, instead of resounding victories, left behind...

200 years ago, the Russo-Persian War began. The Russian army defeated the Persians and established its dominance in Eastern Transcaucasia and the Caspian region.

Until states took over war, it was wielded by private individuals—the knight by right of class, the warrior by virtue of his affiliation with the prince, the condottiere by contract. We tell how violence belonged for centuries to...

The article "The Golden Horde on the Path to Traditional Islam: From Batu to Berke" discussed the Islamization of the Ulus of Jochi. But could it have been Christianized? Let's discuss this, drawing on some of the pages...

Poltava gave Russia a model for organized defense. Over sixty years, Rumyantsev and Suvorov transformed it into an offensive field system—from mobile squares to the assault on Izmail and the crossing of the Alps...