. I remember an article headline from one of the U.S. Army journals (90's); IIRC it was "What happened to the close ambush?"....

. engelsbergideas.com/essays/russian-fortifications-present-an-old-problem-for-ukraine/ It's not a bad article, but I disagree because ...

. It's a tragedy, but the current Russo-Ukrianian War shows that modern inter-state warfare can last a long time, just as in the past. ...

I see three ways to look at the question whether Ukraine should be permitted to join the North Atlantic Treaty. The egoistical view: What...

. Turkey is making demands for a Swedish accession to the North Atlantic Treaty. I've seen very negative opinions about this. It's ...

. This is a 2020 paper draft that was IIRC submitted to and rejected by CIMSEC (they published other drafts of mine). I just rediscovered i...

. I wrote about this before. /2008/03/shocking-shipbuilding-industry.html /2014/05/global-shipbuilding-industries.html It's nonsense fo...

. Helmets were introduced in the First Word War and did cut the count of killed in action troops by about a half (rule of thumb) by protect...

. There's past military technology, presently-used military technology and the 'we know this will become available sometime' mi...

. Take it with a grain of salt, but here's my view on the American Way of (land) War. It's based on indications collected over abou...