Global Conflicts — The First ‘World Wars’ Came Long Before 1914
“World War One was not history’s only recorded ‘Great War’.” (Originally published in September, 2013) THIS COMING SUMMER, the world marks a grim milestone – the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World…
Foreshadows — How Earlier Conflicts Predicted the Horrors of WW1
“Many of the battlefield advances that would become so closely associated with the War to End All Wars were actually foreshadowed in earlier conflicts.” WHEN WAR ERUPTED IN EUROPE in 1914, many expected a short…
InfoGraphic – 100 Years of Air Combat
ON AUG. 25, 1914, A RUSSIAN PILOT by the name of Pyotr Nesterov rammed his unarmed Moraine Saulnier Type G aircraft into an Austrian Albatross B. Most likely, Nesterov was trying to damage the enemy plane with his own…
Dig This — Nine Wartime Tunnels That Can Still Be Visited Today
AS PART OF THE continuing onslaught against militants in Gaza, the Israeli Defense Forces are targetting not just enemy guerrillas, but the vast network of tunnels that snake beneath the embattled Mid East territory. For years,…
Famous Last Words – The Dying Utterances of 11 Well-Known Military Commanders
“Whether they’re fact or fiction, last words such as these are the stuff of legend in the annals of military history.” ALFRED GRAF VON SCHLIEFFEN WAS 79 YEARS OLD when he died in 1913. The Prussian-born career soldier, who…
Explaining War Crimes – Why Have So Many Modern Armies Committed Mass Murder?
By Jonathan Harrison Few people in 1900 would have predicted that many of the world’s most advanced military forces would commit horrific crimes against civilians in the forthcoming century. However, the genesis of those crimes…
