★★ Introduzione Proseguiamo il racconto delle principali fasi militari della Prima Guerra Mondiale esplorando le battaglie che si svolsero nell'Europa dell'Est, così come nei Balcani, nel Medio Oriente, per non parlare delle operazioni condotte in Africa e nel Pacifico. Senza esagerare troppo (e se lo facessimo, faremmo ammenda), ci sembra che le storiografie anglofone e... Continua a leggere →
★★ Introduzione Questo è il primo di due articoli sulla Prima guerra mondiale del 1914-1918. Data la portata del conflitto e le diverse angolazioni da cui è possibile presentare le fasi principali, abbiamo scelto di dedicare questo primo articolo a quello che è noto come il "Fronte Occidentale", ovvero a tutte le battaglie che si... Continua a leggere →
★★ The final withdrawal of troops from Iraq in December 2011 left most U.S. military leadership with the desire to shift their focus from counterinsurgency—which had achieved a position of intellectual dominance in the U.S. military during the war on terror in the late 2000s— back to conventional warfighting. The Service chiefs, who were responsible... Continua a leggere →
★★ Guerrilla units operating in cities must solve strictly defined tasks, limited in scale, being, in fact, reconnaissance and sabotage groups. This is due to the fact that, according to their conditions (high population density, dense transport network, active police and counterintelligence activities, etc.), cities, as well as suburban areas, are the most unfavorable terrain... Continua a leggere →
★★ DOZENS of more or less large-scale local conflicts that took place during the 20th century, as well as the experience of using guerrilla methods of armed struggle during World War II, allow us to make some generalizations and conclusions. Despite all their enormous diversity in political, military and geographical conditions, it is possible to... Continua a leggere →
★★ No longer a limited military tactic, guerrilla warfare has political and economic consequences that can be more dangerous than the armed force employed. Guerrilla warfare is an open sore that annoys today, is a nuisance tomorrow, weakens in a month, and may cause death if not treated properly. Guerrilla warfare may be waged in... Continua a leggere →
★★★ The Special Operations Executive (SOE) in Singapore-Malaya during the Pacific War has consistently been a focal point of scholarly attention. In the existing academic and literary spheres, there is a plethora of research and retrospective works on SOE, which can be viewed from three perspectives. The first perspective focuses on the cooperation between the... Continua a leggere →
★★ As the affairs of states continue to evolve into a complex web of interdependence, cooperation, and competition, pressure mounts on states to effectively employ the tools of statecraft to attain their political objects. The contention of this essay is that Carl von Clausewitz implicitly defined grand strategy in his magnum opus, On War, as the... Continua a leggere →
Their Doctrinal and Operational Development from 1866-1940 and Mission Order Combat Illustrations from the 1870-71, 1914-18 and 1939-45 Wars ★★★ “Orders are not written out in the minutest detail, a mission is merely given the commander. How it shall be carried out is his problem. This is done because the commander on the ground is... Continua a leggere →
★★★ Official War Department doctrine called for tanks to be used as dose support weapons for the infantry, thus the wartime practices for the employment of tanks would continue. A board of officers convened by the War Department in 1919 to study tank tactics recognized the value of tanks as an adjunct to the infantry... Continua a leggere →
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