Within hours of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt promulgated a new doctrine: unrestricted submarine warfare against Japan. This meant sinking any warship, merchant ship, or...

As a result of the earlier changes, the Royal Navy entered the Second World War as a disparate force of veterans of the First World War, interwar vessels limited by strict...

In August 1914, the importance of Paris as a strategic objective was such that its capture was regarded in many circles as capable of provoking the military collapse of France....

In the early hours of November 20, 1917, more than 400 tanks (tanks) advanced against a 10-kilometer enemy line near the city of Cambrai, leading the assault of five infantry...

Religion, which in principle could be a pacifying human activity, was marked in the Medieval Age by clashes between two of the greatest, both in their early days, Islam and...

The Battle of Issus took place in southern Anatolia, 10 km south of the city of Issus, present-day Iskenderum (which in Turkish means Alexandria), and on both banks of the river...

Board wargames are one of the most common forms of conflict simulation in mathematical models throughout history. They are based on a map, topographic or from a satellite photo,...

By 1917 Cambrai had become one of the most important nodes of the German railway and command and control system. It was protected behind the defenses of the Hindenburg Line. The...

Jutland was the largest naval battle in World War I and the third historic action between battleships (steel-armored battleships) following the battles of the Yellow Sea (1904)...

It was a major battle in which the US Marine Corps and Navy landed and finally captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) during World War II. As there...