Tag: Military History
Monumental Struggles — Five War Memorials That Sparked Controversy
“The $500,000 work of art raised eyebrows when it was unveiled.” WAR MEMORIALS ARE supposed to commemorate past conflicts. But what happens when the monument itself sparks a battle in its own right? A number of…
A Brief History of Wartime PTSD — From Ancient Greece to Afghanistan
“For centuries, even millennia, eye-witnesses of conflict have suffered from PTSD. Consider these early accounts.” WHILE THE TERM post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) wasn’t officially coined until 1980, psychologists, both civilian and military, have long been aware of the…
First Blood – History’s Earliest Recorded Military Conflicts
WARFARE IS AS OLD AS CIVILIZATION ITSELF. In fact, experts believe that the first armed conflicts were fought more than 10,000 years ago by prehistoric city-states in present day Syria, Jordan and Iraq. These early contests…
War By Remote Control — 2,500 Years of Unmanned Vehicles
“While UAVs are still considered as being on the cutting edge of military technology, the idea of sending an unmanned aircraft, ground vehicles or even boats into battle is centuries old and has occurred throughout…
The Forgotten Armies of the Western Front — 1914 to 1918
“There were other, smaller, often overlooked contingents to the Western Front that history has largely forgotten. Here are their stories.” EIGHT MILLION MEN fought for the British Army during the First World War. More than half of…
Star Wars – 30 Celebrities and What They Did in Wartime
ON THE NIGHT of Sept. 23, 1942, a flight of RAF Halifax bombers from No. 76 squadron struck a German harbour facility on the Baltic Sea. During the mission, one of the British planes was…
