come il mondo Celtico ha influenzato l'arte della guerra Romana ★★★★ Abstract: la galassia celtica, a più riprese nel corso dei secoli, sia tramite lo scambio che tramite lo scontro con le popolazioni Italiche in particolare, fu un bacino continuo di migliorie e di apporti al mondo militare romano – tanto nel campo tattico, quanto... Continua a leggere →
I legionari di Traiano
★★★★ Abstract: Analisi approfondita dell'equipaggiamento militare dei fanti legionari dell'epoca di Traiano, condotta attraverso lo studio e confronto tra le principali fonti visive dell'epoca quali la Colonna Traiana ed il tropaeum Traiani di Adamclisi. Com’era davvero l’aspetto dei legionari romani durante le guerre daciche? In questo video analizziamo nel dettaglio ciò che sappiamo davvero sull’equipaggiamento... Continua a leggere →
La rivolta dalmato-pannonica, 6-9 d.C.
★★★★ Abstract: analisi approfondita e documentata della tremenda rivolta scoppiata nell'area dalmato-pannonica negli anni di governo di Augusto, poco prima del disastro di Teutoburgo. Descrizione delle campagne condotte da Tiberio e Germanico nell'area, i movimenti delle truppe, la contromosse dei capi ribelli, le tattiche utilizzate e le conseguenze a livello socio-economico e politico sulla condotta... Continua a leggere →
The Seven Years’ War: World War Zero
★★★ Abstract: Broken treaties, mutual aid agreements, imperial expansion, and the thirst for economic expansion all come to mind when thinking about the great world wars of 1914 and 1941, but they, in fact, occurred 158 years before. The great imperial powers of the day mustered great armies, deployed strong fleets, and hired mercenaries to... Continua a leggere →
The Napoleonic Wars, by Alexander Mikaberidze Audiobook preview
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 →
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 →
The Long Pivot The Development of the Joint Warfighting Concept
★★ 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 →
Fundamentals of Guerrilla Warfare: Theory and Practice (II)
★★ 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 →
Fundamentals of Guerrilla Warfare: Theory and Practice (I)
★★ 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 →
