Aleutian kayak or shift boat
The Aleutian Islands are a chain of islands that form an arc from the southwestern tip of the Alaska Peninsula to the base of the Kamchatka Peninsula. The living conditions for humans here were more than harsh, but still...
Collapse of German Army Group Center
80 years ago, the Belarusian offensive operation began, one of the largest battles in world history. The Red Army defeated the German Army Group Center, liberated Belarus, part of...
Haida Indian War Trail
An integral part of the Haida and Tlingit military culture was their armor. Yes, yes, these Indians, from the point of view of their defensive weapons, can well be classified as “Indian knights” ....
Paris Invalides
“Invalids”, “disabled teams”, the Parisian Invalides bristling with cannons - history and modernity...
Dr. Watson Was Wounded There: A Brief History of the Anglo-Afghan Wars
The history of one of the most irreconcilable conflicts of the 19th and 20th centuries. - Anglo-Afghan wars...
How the Allies failed the operation to defeat the German Army Group C in Italy
Churchill believed that the Allies managed to pin down 23 German divisions before the Normandy operation, which helped open a second front. In fact, the Wehrmacht tied up much more allied forces and...
Academy of the General Staff: from the era of Nicholas I to the Russo-Japanese War
In the second half of the 1877th century. There was a lag between Russian military thought and Western European thought, which resulted in defeat in the Crimean War and excessive losses in 1878-XNUMX. near Plevna;...
How a regiment of Siberian riflemen stood to the death against the 2nd Japanese Army
The assault on the positions of a single Russian regiment of Siberian riflemen near Jinzhou was carried out by successively changing units of all three divisions of the 2nd Japanese Army. The battle was extremely fierce, the Japanese with...
Just jangada
A jangada is a sailing raft made of wood, used in northern Brazil. In general, the design of the jangada has not changed, probably since Neolithic times. Her triangular sail, also known as...
Triumph and death of John Tzimiskes
The end of the war against Svyatoslav, the successful campaigns of Tzimiskes to the East, the sudden death of the emperor...
Exploitation of British Malaya: the British could
Only one definition can be applied to British Malaya: shameless exploitation of Asians and siphoning off resources...
Lessons from the First World War
The SVO in Ukraine was conceived as a lightning-fast operation of a limited scale with the goal of denazification and demilitarization of the Kyiv regime. However, the fighting has dragged on for two and a half years...
Roman Emperor Tzimiskes against the Kyiv Prince Svyatoslav
The first great war of John Tzimisces after his accession to the throne: the Russian prince against the Roman emperor...
Dark days of the Japanese fleet
May 1904 became a dark year for the Japanese fleet. In a relatively short time, the Japanese fleet suffered heavy losses, as if from defeat in a naval battle. According to the Japanese themselves, the loss of two...
“The Kazan nut is very strong”: fortifications of Khan’s Kazan against Moscow troops
The most significant military campaigns, when Russian troops approached Kazan directly before its capture by Ivan the Terrible....
Emperor Hirohito's light bulb
At the beginning of the reign of Emperor Showa, better known as Hirohito, large-scale electrification took place in Korea, and almost 2 million light bulbs began to shine...
The Collective West and Swiss Folklore
To the beginning of the Swiss anti-Russian conference on Ukraine...
How the government of Mikhail Fedorovich failed the war for Smolensk
390 years ago, the “eternal” Peace of Polyanovsky was signed between the Russian kingdom and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The Russian army failed in the Smolensk War, but Poland was unable to develop an offensive...
John I Tzimiskes, opponent of Svyatoslav. The youth of the commander
The commander and emperor John Tzimiskes, the opponent of the Kyiv prince Svyatoslav Igorevich - youth and the path to power...
Brave, but lacking initiative. Why did the Russian Empire lose the war with Japan?
During the Russo-Japanese War, our officers showed their inherent courage at all times; but not everything was going well with initiative, let’s try to figure out why...
How Suvorov defeated the 40-strong Turkish army at the Battle of Kozludzha
250 years ago, Suvorov with an 8-strong detachment completely defeated a 40-strong Turkish army at Kozludzha, the Russian army blocked the Shumla fortress. This operation decided the outcome of the 1774 campaign and the entire...
Rocket prophecies
The idea of learning that the present was predicted many years ago has always been an important driving force of human cognition. What if there is strong evidence that a prediction from the past in...
Defeat of the Polish army at Szczekocin and Chelm
The Polish rebels, led by Kosciuszko, quickly lost the initiative, suffering defeats from the Russians and Prussians at Szczekocin and Chelm. However, the Prussian army was unable to take Warsaw the first time and...
Ingigerd. Maturity and last years of life of the wise wife of Yaroslav the Wise
Educator of two Norwegian kings and mother of three queens. The canonization of Ingigerd and the disputes of the two Sophia Councils...