Experts, including Congressional Strategic Posture Commission Commissioners, examine the future of US nuclear strategy to develop nonpartisan policies addressing key security challenges facing the nation.
MAPPING PREMODERN SMALL WAR: THE CASE OF THE THIRTY YEARS WAR (1618-48)
★★★ ABSTRACT: The example of the Thirty Years War (1618–48) demonstrates that small war was already integral to the conduct of premodern hostilities. Commanders employed these methods with a purpose and generally tried to limit the accompanying violence to preserve discipline and effectiveness, as well as their claims to be waging a just war. We... Continua a leggere →
ESQUISSE SUR LA TACTIQUE DE L’INFANTERIE DES ARMÉES DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE
★★★ Pour défendre la Révolution, la nation française mit sur pied une armée telle que la monarchie n’avait jamais été capable d’en réunir une. Aussi bien par son ampleur que par la composition sociale de son corps d’officiers, cette nouvelle armée n’avait jamais eu de précédent. Le système tactique qui lui permettait de se mesurer... Continua a leggere →
Globalizing the Thirty Years War: Early German Newspapers and their Geopolitical Perspective on the Atlantic World
★★★ ABSTRACT: At the height of the Thirty Years War, news from South America, West Africa and the Caribbean was widespread and quickly distributed in the central European peripheries of the early modern Atlantic world. Despite the German retreat from sixteenth-century colonial experiments, overseas reports sometimes appeared in remote southern German towns before they were... Continua a leggere →
MEMORIE DI FILIPPO PISANI UFFICIALE D’ARTIGLIERIA NELLA GRANDE ARMATA CONDOTTA DA NAPOLEONE IN RUSSIA L’ANNO 1812
★★★ Memorie di Filippo Pisani, ufficiale d’artiglieria nella Grande Armata condotta da Napoleone in Russia nel 1812. Autore: Filippo Pisani, presentato da Ernesto Damiani Fonte: Researchgate lememoriedifilippopisaniDownload Categoria: Moderna Cultura e Società Tag: Military Napoleonic Wars (1797-1815) Russian Campaign (1812)
NELSON’S BATTLES IN 3D: TRAFALGAR
★★ In 1805, Napoleon is planning his move against the Third Coalition of Britain, Russia and Austria. He is determined to finally defeat Britain, and if he can manage to get the French army across the English Channel, his huge and experienced land forces would surely capture the island. Only the formidable British navy stands... Continua a leggere →
