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.

The rise of Khan Akhmat did not go unnoticed by Venice, which was waging a grueling war with the Ottoman Empire and was interested in an alliance with the Great Horde, and accordingly, attempted to draw it over...

The German Reich was facing a crisis worse than the Great Depression in the United States. Only a major war could avoid it...

Synthetic rubber is one of the most underrated topics in the history of World War II, although without some special grades it would have been impossible to create and use military equipment...

Napoleon won his wars not with a new system or a new cannon, but with a single change of plan: he stopped chasing fortresses and began hunting the enemy army in order to destroy it and thereby break it...

The result of the Franco-Chinese, Franco-Vietnamese and Franco-Siamese wars was the emergence of the "Indochinese Union", which included the colony of Cochin China, the protectorate of Annam, the protectorate of Tonkin, and so on...

Soviet submarines B-440 of Project 641 and B-396 of the Novosibirsky Komsomolets project – an inside look with photographs by the author...

The word "bogatyr" came from the East; its prototypes lived in different centuries and never met, but the familiar image of the three heroes at the outpost was created by the artist Vasnetsov...

A blatantly predatory war of conquest by the United States. The Americans prepared and provoked a war against a weak enemy in order to seize Mexico....