Month: August 2012
Surrounded – Some of History’s Most Incredible Sieges
Encircled, cut off and facing attack by government troops, the northern Syrian city of Aleppo has been under what’s being described as a state of siege since late July. Elements of the 11th and 18th…
Battles in Miniature — A Brief History of War Gaming
BY THE END of the Cold War, American military planners had contingencies and plans for just about every conceivable crisis – Latin American counterinsurgencies, confrontations on the Korean Peninsula, a full out Warsaw Pact…
Two-Wheeled Warriors – A Brief History of Bicycles on the Battlefield
“Bike riding infantry could carry heavier loads father and faster than men on foot, and riders would still have the energy to charge into battle, even after hours of pedalling.” THE BICYCLE (as we know it…
Canada marks the 200th Anniversary of 1812… with a TV commercial
Hey everyone: No new blog entires this week. I’ll be travelling for the next eight days through the Rocky Mountains and along Canada’s Pacific coast. In the meantime, I thought I’d share with you a…
Heavyweights — The Monster Super Tanks of World War Two
“Small, thinly armoured and under-gunned, the first tanks of World War Two were light-weights when compared to the lumbering beasts that would lurch off production lines within a few short years.” TO UNDERSTAND JUST how…
The Forgotten Role of Indigenous Americans in the U.S. Civil War
“Some Indian factions taking up arms for both the Union and the Confederacy.” THE U.S. CIVIL WAR wasn’t just an internecine struggle between white Americans from the north and south. Native tribes throughout the United States…
