By 1975, the Red Empire had already won the classic Cold War. The US and the "golden billion" countries were retreating, suffering defeats in military, diplomatic, and political confrontations.

On the effectiveness of the Soviet fleet, or rather, why it wasn't in the cards 100 years from now...

The settlement of Kosovo by Albanians occurred gradually over several centuries, beginning with the creation of the Ottoman Empire and ending with the collapse of Yugoslavia, the NATO invasion, and the expulsion of the remaining...

Continuation of the story of the military operations on the island of Corsica in 1943 and the role of armored vehicles in these events....

The life and death of Sergei Markov, one of the most popular White Guard generals at the start of the civil war...

In September 1943, fighting between Italian and German forces broke out on the island of Corsica. Armored vehicles played a significant role in these battles.

Among the reasons for the Whites' defeat in southern Russia was the passive resistance, as Denikin wrote, of the Don command in the autumn of 1919 to his directives, which called for the Cossack units to move beyond...

A very important military device of the Ancient World and the Middle Ages was… the siege tower...

The fighting began with Operation Alpha, as the Argentine command dubbed the invasion of South Georgia. The area is so remote that the Falkland Islands look like the center of...

V. Triandafillov, a native of a poor family, became the commander of a rifle corps, deputy chief of staff of the Red Army, and the author of the advanced theory of "deep operations" and "deep combat."

The Bible mentions a wide variety of weapons and armor used in "biblical times." There's even a mention of the battering ram—an ancient weapon, and not only ancient but also medieval...

Whose names of ancient Vikings have entered the popular consciousness and are most often mentioned on various occasions, about whom "folk wisdom" speaks, and... the pages of history textbooks...

Alexander Dutov in the Tsarist service and in Kolchak's army, his escape to China, and the "long reach" of Soviet security officers...

We're all very lucky that the Vikings had the custom of burying their nobles in ships. And not by burning them, which would have been logical, but by burying them. This operation...

According to one war legend, Stalin gave orders not to take soldiers from the 332nd German Regiment prisoner. It was the soldiers and officers of this regiment who tortured and executed Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya.

And indeed, why not “Prince Potemkin of Tauride”?...

This past year marks the bicentennial of Alexander I's death, which gave rise to the legend that the late emperor secretly abdicated the throne and became the elder Feodor of Tomsk. Let's talk about it...

How something was that never was. The Chukotka fleet—unbelievably, but it existed...

What was money like in Ancient Rus', and how did people pay before the advent of state coinage?

"Rule, Britannia! Rule the waves..." wrote James Thomson in 1740. Since then, the lyrics to this song have sometimes been confused with the national anthem of the United Kingdom. But by the end of the 20th century, the country had lost its former might...

N. N. Yudenich after the fall of the autocracy. His flight to Finland, the Northwestern Army's unsuccessful march on Petrograd, and Yudenich's life in exile...

Viking ships became perhaps the most important technical achievement of the early European Middle Ages...

The Celestial Empire was destroyed not only by its inherent arrogance and racism towards the "white monkeys", but also by the eternal venality of officials who, unable to resist bribes, allowed opium into the country....

N. N. Yudenich: origin, early military career, participation in the Russo-Japanese War, successes on the Caucasian Front of World War I....