Many sources cite Mukden as the largest pitched-land battle in history in its day – if that is the case, why is this battle not more widely known, or been more widely discussed and studied?

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Ovid provides several unique insights into the warfare of the Dacians and Getae and the Sarmatians who surrounded and threatened Tomis. It is an evocative picture that does much to add to our understanding of warfare on that edge of the empire.

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My latest book for Osprey examines land warfare in the past several decades, the current state of play, and, getting out the metaphorical crystal ball, forward into the next 20 years or so to take an educated guess at what ground combat will look like.

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On 9 January 1776, while seeking assistance in suppressing the colonial rebellion in North America, Great Britain entered into its first formal military alliance with a German state since the start of the conflict – in exchange for the sum of 64,500 Banco-Thaler, Britain would receive 3,964 infantrymen and 336 light cavalrymen to assist in combat operations in North America.

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On the blog today, Dr. James H. Willbanks, decorated Vietnam veteran and former Director of the Department of Military History at the US Army Command and General Staff College, provides a summary of the bitter Battle of Hamburger Hill.

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On 25 June 1950, North Korea launched an all-out attack on its southern neighbour, the Republic of Korea (ROK). Despite the Communists’ early success in driving the poorly equipped ROK Army and its US allies to the brink of disaster, the amphibious landing of US forces at Inchon on the western coast of the Korean peninsula forced the North’s Korean People’s Army (KPA) to retreat all the way to the Sino-Korean border.

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By the outbreak of the war in June 1950, the KPA had rapidly expanded from a security force armed with small arms only to a modern army with tanks, heavy artillery, and aircraft, including infantry divisions, a tank brigade, and an aviation division, as well as a well-developed command structure, with personnel who possessed a wealth of combat experience.

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The 1st Marine Division’s so-called “end of war” campaign began October 26, 1950, when Marines landed at Wonsan in northeast Korea.

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The early victories of the great Moroccan Berber leader Mohammed Abd el Krim el Khattabi attracted world-wide attention. In fact, the sequence of events that really brought the Legion international fame began with media coverage of a major Berber victory over the Spanish in 1921; continued in 1924 with the publication of P.C. Wren’s fanciful novel Beau Geste, and culminated with the extension of the Rif War into French Morocco in 1925.

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