Moscow had a choice. Either make peace with the already collapsed Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and join forces with the Poles against the insolent Sweden, or join forces with the Swedes to finish off Poland.

The article recounts a series of experimental parachute drops in the high-altitude regions of the Pamirs in the 1960s. The project was initiated by mountaineering coach Viktor Galkin and test pilot...

In March 1920, right-wing radicals staged a putsch against the government in Berlin. However, a nationwide strike led to the coup d'état being reversed a few days later.

This year marks the anniversary of the first edition of A. A. Svechin's "Strategy." In this article, we will discuss the intellectual context in which the work was created and the innovative nature of several of its ideas.

Ivan Sorokin's finest hour, a conflict with the Central Executive Committee of the Kuban-Black Sea region, the tragic death of a controversial commander...

Time can sometimes play a decisive role in war. American historian and retired US Air Force Colonel F. Meilinger wrote about this in detail in his article "Time in War."

The Dauphin's Armour was made for Duke Henry of Orleans, who later became King of France under the name of Henry II and reigned from 1547 to 1559...

There's nothing new under the sun. The decisive and brutal actions of Trump's current team echo the arrival of Reagan's "rough boys," who outmaneuvered the late Soviet elite...

Ivan Sorokin in the Tsarist army and during the first period of the civil war...

The civil war, like a tidal wave, cast over a million of our compatriots into exile; some later returned. The reasons for this move will be discussed in this article...

In ancient times, chariots and horse-drawn carts played the role of BA. Clearly, for these to appear, the horse itself had to be domesticated first. Moreover, the horses of that time...

Around 1200, or even slightly earlier, alongside conical helmets, completely new and previously unknown helmets appeared – "pot helmets" or "pillbox helmets." They looked similar to...

Our far from toy enemy... The adversary. For the forgetful...

Additional methods of distributing German propaganda materials include balloon distribution and leaflet distribution behind Red Army lines through...

After the battering ram and the siege tower, we simply cannot avoid talking about the throwing machines of the Ancient World and the Middle Ages, which in those distant times replaced modern machine guns for our ancestors and...

The British Labour government sold Rolls-Royce engines to the USSR – the deal was intended to be commercial, but with the stipulation that the engines would not be used for military purposes. But the USSR...

A translation of an article published in The Korea Times about the assassination of the third Korean president, Park Chung-hee, with commentary from the translator...

Events from late December 1979 to early January 1980, related to the introduction of Soviet troops into Afghanistan and paratrooper operations in Kabul. A description of military operations, everyday scenes from the New Year's Eve...

The transition of the "Separate Corps of Russian Volunteers" to the Don, participation in the civil war and the death of Drozdovsky....

As early as the 13th century, horsemen began to cover their arms and legs with numerous iron plates, and shaped their helmets accordingly, so that by 1410, fully plate armor made of forged...

On August 4, 2025, the U.S. Coast Guard released the results of its investigation into the circumstances and causes of the Titan's loss. This article presents its findings.

The Myklebust ship is the largest Viking ship discovered to date....

The end of a story about something that never happened. The birth and death of the Chukotka fleet. The early 90s...

For centuries, millennia, no, not centuries, some weaponsmiths have sought effective means of attack, while others, correspondingly, have sought means of defense. Very...