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The forgotten samurai

Written by Stephen Turnbull on March 01, 2001

To the popular mind the notion of 'the samurai' never seems to change throughout Japanese history. My book Warrior 29: Ashigaru 1467–1649 (Osprey, 2001) shows how wrong this idea is...


Knights and Samurai - Brothers in Arms? Part 2

Written by Stephen Turnbull on January 01, 2001

Greater differences between knights and samurai arise when we turn from the technology of the military revolution to its more personal expression...


Korea: Defeating the Communists, Fighting the Cold

Written by Martin Brayley on November 01, 2000

The formidable weather encountered in Korea led the British forces into developing a new combat uniform, closely modelled on the US M1943 multi-layered system...


Dade's Last Stand

Written by Angus Konstam on November 01, 2000

In 1835 the fledgling United States was faced with a major Indian rising in Florida. Consistent ill-treatment of the Seminoles and consistent encroachment of their lands created a volatile situation...


Knights and Samurai - Brothers in Arms?

Written by Stephen Turnbull on November 01, 2000

In my book Men-at-Arms 105, The Mongols I made the comment that, because of the vast extent of the Mongol conquests, the Teutonic Knights of Germany and the samurai of Japan had in fact fought a common enemy, even though it was to be three more centuries before the two martial societies became aware of each other's existence...


The Blue and the Grey in Egypt

Written by David Nicolle on November 01, 2000

Like many Asian and African rulers, Muhammad Ali (1805—1848), ruler of Egypt, and his grandson Ismail (1863—79) believed that the only way to resist 19th-century Western imperialism was by a wholesale adoption of Western technology and military systems...


Flodden Field 1513

Written by on July 01, 2000

On 9 September 1513, 34-year-old King James IV of Scotland, the last British monarch to die in battle, met his end at Flodden in one of the bloodiest encounters in the long centuries of conflict between England and her northern neighbour...


Henry Morgan's Panama Campaign, 1671

Written by Angus Konstam on May 01, 2000

The true test of a military commander is the way he copes with adversity. Even the most experienced leader would be challenged to retain control of mutinous troops during a forced march on starvation rations...


The Error that lost the War?

Written by Martin Marix Evans on May 01, 2000

As the French and British stumbled back across the fields of Flanders and the Panzer divisions pushed up from the south, an order was sent from German Army Group A headquarters at Charleville-Mézières to the commanders at the front...


Japanese Castles and the lessons of Nagashino

Written by Stephen Turnbull on May 01, 2000

The siege and battle of Nagashino in 1575 together make up one of the pivotal events in samurai history. The army of the Takeda clan, who had been besieging the tiny but stubbornly defended fortress for nearly ten days, abandoned their siege lines to assault the army sent by Oda Nobunaga to relieve Nagashino...