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War on the Rocks: “How Does the Next Great Power Conflict Play Out?”
Lessons from a Wargame JAMES LACEY APRIL 22, 2019 COMMENTARY “The United States can win World War III, but it’s going to be ugly and it better end quick, or everyone starts looking for
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Shooting Illustrated Review: “Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II”
By Steve Adelmann – Monday, April 1, 2019 “Let’s be honest, the firearms and gear that are featured in tactically flavored magazines often blend together into one big mass of Picatinny rail-laden, polymer-coated, flat-dark-earth-painted steel.
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Weapons and Warfare: Quality versus Quantity?
“Although primarily a history of multiple failures, the German heavy fighting vehicles of World War II provided a multitude of challenges within the engineering problems of tank design and manufacture, and several technological exploits
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Popular Mechanics: What Human Beings Can Teach Aliens About Probing the Solar System
An emerging golden age of probes may reimagine the origin story of our galactic neighborhood. By Joe Pappalardo Dec 5, 2018 “Alien conspiracy theorists have certainly ruined the word “probe.” But there’s really only one kind
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Popular Mechanics: The U.S. Military’s Cryptic Letters, Numbers, and Symbols, Explained
A quick guide to the nomenclature that identifies America’s military vehicles and units. By By Kyle Mizokami Dec 6, 2018 “The U.S. military speaks many languages. From the markings on tanks to the classification of aircraft,
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South China Morning Post: Liaoning aircraft carrier
Trade tensions with the United States blow hole in budget for China’s newest aircraft carrier. Cuts and rising fighter jet development costs have slowed progress on the Type 002, military insiders say. By Minnie Chan:
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Popular Mechanics: Hobo Hieroglyphs
By Roy Berendsohn Nov 21, 2018 The Hobo Hieroglyphs: Their Secret Symbols, Explained The marks that told travelers whether a town or house was friend or foe. “I was a hobo,” Willy Howard told me.
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France 24: How the Salonica Front led to victory in WWI
“A century ago, towards the end of World War I, Allied soldiers were engaged in fighting on the Salonica Front, near the Greek city now known as Thessaloniki. Those key battles, fought in the
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Weapons and Warfare: Sulla versus Mithridates
Sulla Italians become Romans Rome was faced with the prospect of the collapse of its power in the peninsula. Hence the lex Calpurnia apparently permitted Roman commanders to bestow citizenship as a reward to
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Weapons and Warfare – “The Iroquois and the European North American ‘empires’ I”
“The character of the French and British North American “empires” differed greatly. Although the French did war against the Iroquois, Natchez, Fox, and other tribes, they did not “conquer” New France; they merely paid
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