Operation Ironclad: The Allies occupy Madagascar August 29, 2024 In the field of military history, this is a fairly frequent phenomenon: battles and operations which passed into the “small print” of History, although…
WWII: The German inaction before Dunkirk – Hitler’s mistake or genius application of Sun Tzu’s principles? August 29, 2024 Sun Tzu was first translated by a French missionary and is considered by some to be one of the secret weapons of the Napoleonic…
1097-1110: The “Holy War” against the infidels who occupied the Holy Land August 22, 2024 By 1110 cities such as Edessa, Antioch, Jerusalem, Tortosa, Beirut, Laodicea, Tripoli, Tire and Acre were definitively under Latin occupation. However, despite the first…
Hiroshima: the Greatest war crime in human history August 8, 2024 On August 6, 1945, one of the most heinous events in human history took place, the most serious war crime of all time: the…
“Operation Overlord”: Myths and painful truths June 13, 2024 On June 6, the president of France Emmanuel Macron and with the presence of almost twenty heads of state and government, about 4,500 guests,…
D-Day: The Normandy Landings and the Beginning of the End June 6, 2024 “You will enter Europe and in conjunction with the other United Nations will undertake operations directed at the heart of Germany and the destruction…
US War in Vietnam: Operation Apache Snow June 6, 2024 By early 1969, the presence of the North Vietnamese Army in the A Sau Valley had again reached high levels following their military defeat…
Ukraine: How the battle of Hostomel decided the course of the war March 7, 2024 There have been battles that changed history, leaving the question, “what would have happened if…” One of them, was that of the Antonov airfield…
Falklands War, the lessons of an Air-Naval campaign December 14, 2023 The following analysis deals with the Falklands War in order to highlight useful operational lessons. As a general introduction, the Falklands War, which began…