Chemin des Dames, Passchendaele, Cambrai, Riga, Arras, Caporetto. A year when both sides assembled all the elements of a breakthrough separately and failed to integrate them into a unified operational concept...

In Tuva, the Order of Subedei was established for the defense of Russia's territorial integrity. The problem is that Subedei entered Russian history for precisely the very reason this award will now be presented...

Tsar Alexander, instead of making peace with France, decided to support Prussia. A new major war became inevitable. The British had found new cannon fodder...

The Baltic Fleet's actions in the Archipelago before the Battle of Chesma...

The idea of ​​reviving the Roman Empire haunted Mussolini. It seemed a beautiful idea. But how could it be implemented?

The Battle of Berezina marked the final point in the Patriotic War of 1812. Napoleon's army was routed, but the victory of Russian arms was diminished and slandered.

Translation of the obituary published in The New York Times, with comments from the translator....

From the standpoint of Russia's national interests, a war with France was unnecessary. Likewise, France didn't need a difficult war with Russia.

The English state of the Middle Ages was reassembled about once a century: by different people, in a different language, under different laws...

A recollection of a meeting with a frontline soldier who fought in a penal company three times. His story debunks the myths about penal companies and battalions...

The British fleet's treacherous attack on the ships of its former allies after the capitulation of France, and the French sinking of the fleet in Toulon after the German occupation of the city...

During World War II, a number of Soviet merchant ships fell victim to friendly fire from their American ally....

The Korean People's Army began with guerrilla units. It would have been absurd if the Korean War hadn't seen its own guerrillas emerge behind the front lines. And they did. And even before the war began...

In February 1986, Iran captured the Fao Peninsula thanks to the incompetence of an Iraqi general who sent optimistic reports to headquarters. But what did this gain him?

In September 1066, the wind changed at the mouth of the River Dives, and England, which had faced the North Sea for six centuries, turned towards the English Channel, where it would remain for another seven centuries...

The current red banner of the Russian Armed Forces, with its powerful energy and the full force of Russian history, could perhaps serve as the basis for a modern State Banner.

The last great tragedy of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Empire was the exodus of the White Guard squadron to Constantinople, and then its transfer to the harbor of Bizerte in Tunisia.

During World War II, the US Air Force and Navy continually attacked Japanese military infrastructure in the Kuril Islands.

In two years, the Western Front had transformed from a line of trenches into an industrial conveyor belt: chlorine at Ypres, a million shells in nine hours at Verdun, and 57,470 British casualties in one day on the Somme taught...

Rebuilding the Pacific and Baltic Fleets after the Russo-Japanese War. Operations of the Black Sea and Baltic Fleets during World War I. The Baltic Fleet's ice voyage.

Iran, having survived the conflict with the United States, found itself on the brink of internal problems, but it has many examples of decline and rebirth behind it; for example, under the Safavids, with whom the Russian sovereigns...

Alfred the Great didn't unite England—he saved Wessex and laid the foundations; his grandson Athelstan reassembled the country, and Eadred and Edgar completed it—and the story of the "king—father of the nation" proves convenient...

About the stupidities that have been heaped up around the Streltsy army...

The war was expected to last a single summer campaign. By winter, it became clear that the army was no longer fighting with the same weapons the regulations had been written for. The maneuver ended where machine guns, howitzers, and barbed wire first appeared...