#Artillery

Chris Holland

ChrisCardsFan

In the aftermath of the Battle of Shiloh, many veterans recounted their experiences of the battle in letters to loved ones back home. One such veteran was George W. Squier,

Jeremy Banning

jbanningww1

1/ A short thread on what seems to be a regular topic for me - 28th Division casualties at the Second Battle of Ypres in April - May 1915. Please

Selma Jahić

Selma_Jahic_

TW: WarIn May 1992 the first bombs were dropped on the village Bljećeva. Bljećeva is the village where my family is from. My family lived there for generations. This is

Ben Mayne

BattlefieldBen

A 3 hour walk around Hill 60, the Caterpillar, the Bluff and Palingbeek gave me a great chance to look in detail at the actions which took place around there.

Yusuf A Ahmad Ansari یوسف انصاری

yusufpore

Today marks the 495th anniversary of the first Battle of #Panipat, fought between a Timurid army led by Zaheer-ud Din Mohammad #Babur and the Afghan king Ibrahim Lodi.This engagement had

Ferik

On_Politike

It's been interesting to watch the reported number of Russian losses. In war the warring parties exaggerate the losses of the enemy wildly,so I have looked at Ukrainian claims with

Combined Arms Center

usacac

DOCTRINE & TRAINING (Part 2) We’ve talked a bit about Army training and how the history threads in this series are helping set the stage for the 1941 GHQ Maneuvers,

Lucy

LMBD1418

Equine veterans of the First World War, 'The Old Blacks', were a team of black gun horses originally of F Battery, Royal Horse Artillery who were based at St John's

Angry Staff Officer

pptsapper

Look, it's April 17, and that means we drink for Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter, okI don't make the rules, I just enforce emNow, you might ask WHY we do

Tom Egan

tomjmegan

AAR (Thread). American Sector, Normandy, late-June 1944. Outskirts of a small rural village. Terrain is largely bocage fields, lightly wooded with two walled Norman farmsteads and dominated by the local

Kate Jamieson ⚓

kejamieson_

So, as it was requested yesterday I thought it would be interesting (and a move marginally away from the RN, which happens on occasion) to cover the Experimental Corps of

Rakesh Bhatia

rakeshkbhatia

Diff in LAC perception exists in all sects-Ladhak, HP, Sikkim & Arunachal. But why incidents of intrusions in Ladakh and Sikkim are happening regularly of late but not in other

Isabel Ivanescu

IsabelIvanescu

Ostentatious military exercises and coded language out of Moscow indicate #Russia may be considering a conventional ground forces deployment to #Syria. My latest for @TheStudyofWar explores this unlikely, but dangerous

Michael Kofman

KofmanMichael

Long thread about how I think the first 96 hours have gone, still very early/incomplete impressions. The initial Russian operation was premised on terrible assumptions about Ukraine’s ability & will

Duncan Weldon

DuncanWeldon

Parker’s Military Revolution is a great read. Short and punchy (and with excellent pictures!) on European military innovation circa 1500-1800.Reading it for the first time in almost 20 years has

Angry Staff Officer

pptsapper

Hahahaha oh shit, today's the anniversary of that time Jimmy Longstreet undertook an offensive against Knoxville, TN in 1863 just to get the hell away from Braxton Bragg and ya