Category: Units
Brute Force – History’s Largest Armies
“A number of nations and empires have claimed the title of ‘world’s biggest’ over the past 4,000 years. Here is a breakdown of history’s largest armies.“ CHINA’S COMMUNIST LEADERSHIP is directing the People’s Liberation Army…
The Pope’s Private Army – 10 Fascinating Facts About the Vatican’s Swiss Guards
“Here are some little-known facts about the Vatican’s five-century-old mercenary legion.” (Originally published on Dec 8, 2014) POPE FRANCIS HAS FIRED the commander of the Vatican’s 500-year-old security regiment — the Swiss Guard. News outlets…
Dying to Fight – Two Thousand Years of Suicide Attackers
“As far back as ancient times, warring factions have turned to martyrs and fanatics to inflict mass casualties on their enemies, even if it means dying in the process.” THE ISLAMIC STATE CONTINUES TO FIND NEW…
The Pre-Columbian Superpower – 10 Surprising Facts About the Incan Army
IN HIS 1997 PULITZER-PRIZE-WINNING BOOK Guns, Germs and Steel, author and University of California historian Jared Diamond describes the absurd Battle of Cajamarca. The clash, which took place on Nov. 16, 1532 in what would later…
America’s First Soldiers — 12 Remarkable Facts About the Continental Army
“Although the Continental Army began the American Revolution as a mob of amateurs, by 1780 it had evolved into a European-style fighting force capable of standing up to the best King George could throw at it.” ONE OF THE…
Stormtroopers! — 10 Facts About Germany’s Elite Assault Soldiers of WW1
“The attackers weren’t ordinary German infantrymen, they were the Kaiser’s elite sturmtruppen or ‘stormtroopers’ — handpicked men, specially trained and armed to the teeth.” THE KAISER’S 1918 ‘Spring Offensive’ on the Western Front, codenamed Operation Michael, was…
