Each afternoon we creep unostentatiously into subterranean burrows, while our respective gunners, from a safe position in the rear, indulge in what they humorously describe as “an artillery duel.” The humour arises from the fact that they fire, not at one another, but at us.
Ian Hay (Major John Hay Beith), The First Hundred Thousand: Being the Unofficial Chronicle of a Unit of “K(1)”, 1916.
October 30, 2020
QotD: Artillery “duels”
October 28, 2020
Who were the Assyrians? History of the Assyrian Empire
Epimetheus
Published 12 Dec 2018Who were the Assyrians? The entire history of the Ancient Assyrian Empire explained in 11 Minutes.
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October 26, 2020
Classic Imperial British Revolvers: the Webley WG Army and Target
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The Webley company used the “WG” (Webley Government) nomenclature in its literature starting in 1883, but the first revolver actually marketed as such was the WG Model of 1889. These revolvers were made primarily for the military market, as officers were responsible for supplying their own sidearms in the British military until 1915. The WG was a full size service revolver in .455 caliber (accepting a wide variety of .45 inch British cartridges, including the .450, .455, .476, Enfield Mk II, and Enfield MkIII). A series of refinements would be made to the design culminating in the generally-accepted standard WG pattern in 1896. These would be produced until 1902, when they were replaced by the Webley WS (Webley Service).
The two main variation of the WG were the Army and the Target. The Army typically had a bird’s-head grip and a 6 inch barrel, where the Target had a longer 7.5 inch barrel and a flared square-butt grip, as well as adjustable sights. However, Webley was happy to supply and mix of features to a customer, and many branded patterns exist. The Target pattern proved very successful for shooters at the Dublin, Glasgow, and Wimbledon matches of the period. A total of about 22,000 WG pattern revolvers were made, with the “standard” 1896 model appearing around s/n 10,000.
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October 24, 2020
Napoleon’s Masterpiece: Austerlitz 1805
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Published 28 Jun 2018Napoleonic Wars Part 1: Napoleon’s brilliant 1805 campaign culminates in victory at Austerlitz.
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QotD: Dealing with the Ordnance Office
The game then proceeds on simple and automatic lines. If your application is referred back to you not more than five times, and if you get your washers within three months of the date of application, you are the winner. If you get something else instead — say an aeroplane, or a hundred wash-hand basins — it is a draw. But the chances are that you lose.
[…]
Olympus will not disgorge your washers until it has your receipt. On the other hand, if you send the receipt, Olympus can always win the game by losing the washers, and saying that you have got them. In the face of your own receipt you cannot very well deny this. So you lose your washers, and the game, and are also made liable for the misappropriation of two washers, for which Olympus holds your receipt.
Truly, the gods play with loaded dice.
On the whole, the simplest (and almost universal) plan is to convey a couple of washers from some one else’s gun.
Ian Hay (Major John Hay Beith), The First Hundred Thousand: Being the Unofficial Chronicle of a Unit of “K(1)”, 1916.
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October 23, 2020
QotD: Every military organization
Robert A. Heinlein, Glory Road, 1963.
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October 16, 2020
“The Art of War” – Wisdom of Sun Tzu – Sabaton History 089 [Official]
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Published 15 Oct 2020Sun Tzu says: “The Art of War is of vital importance to the state. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin.” The Chinese Art of War by Sun Tzu is one of the most influential books in history. Throughout the centuries it would accompany generals, statesmen, and philosophers alike. Those who follow his teachings, who safeguard themselves against defeat and make sure of victory before the battle is fought, will triumph. Those who know everything about themselves and their enemies will achieve supreme excellence.
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September 29, 2020
Frederick the Great – A First Glance
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Showalter, Dennis: Frederick the Great. A Military History. Frontline Books: London, 2016.
Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt (Hrsg.): Friedrich der Große und das Militärwesen seiner Zeit. Vorträge zur Militärgeschichte – Band 8. E. S. Mittler & Sohn: Herford – Bonn, 1987.
Clark, Christopher: The Iron Kingdom. The Rise and Downfall of Prussia 1600-1947. Penguin Books: London, 2007.
Citino, Robert M.: The German Way of War. From the Thirty Years’ War to the Third Reich. University Press of Kansas: USA, 2005.
Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt (Hrsg.): Deutsche Militärgeschichte 1648-1939 in sechs Bänden – Band 6. Bernard & Graefe Verlag; München, 1983.
Browing, Peter: The Changing Nature of Warfare. The Development of Land Warfare from 1792 to 1945. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, 2002.
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August 24, 2020
Why the British Army was so effective in 1914 – Learning lessons from the Boer War
History West Midlands
Published 10 Oct 2014When Britain despatched an Expeditionary Force (the BEF) to the Continent in August 1914, the German Kaiser issued an order of the day to his generals to “walk over General French’s contemptible little army”.
But despite being heavily outnumbered, this small force, including many men from the West Midlands, played a vital role in stopping the seemingly overwhelming German advance across Belgium and into France.
Small in size compared with the much larger armies of France and Germany, the BEF was highly effective. This was in stark contrast to the disasters that the British Army had experienced a few years earlier at the start of the Second Boer War (1899-1902) in South Africa.
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August 15, 2020
Scammell recovery
A series of British army WW2 Royal Mechanical and Electrical Engineers (REME) training films on the recovery vehicles for in-the-field recovery of all manner of trucks and tanks. The original training films do not match the cuts in the YouTube versions, and one film cuts off at the end of each “reel” and restarts with the next video. The series is called “Scammell recovery”, but the use of other vehicles is also covered.
Christopher Lloyd-Staples
Published 21 Dec 2017Scammell Pioneer recovery operations, and loading onto the tank transporter
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July 28, 2020
Roman kit: featuring armour, swords, spears, artillery, rations, deckchairs, and of course shoes
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July 12, 2020
The History of: The Canadian CADPAT Camouflage Pattern | Uniform History
Uniform History
Published 21 Jan 2019Welcome to our first episode of 2019. Today we’ll be covering the, first of its kind, digital camouflage patterns more commonly known as CADPAT.
Again we’d like to thank everyone who pointed out some of the missing bits. So hopefully take two on CADPAT paints the larger more complete picture.
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July 4, 2020
Australian defence expansion – “We’re not talking about Canada”
The Australian government has embarked on a ten-year military expansion program that is clearly directed against recent Chinese bullying in the region:
HMAS Adelaide (LHD 01) and HMAS Canberra (LHD 02), based on the Spanish navy’s Juan Carlos I landing helicopter dock built by Navantia, and commissioned in November 2014 (Canberra) and December 2015 (Adelaide).
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[Australian PM] Scott Morrison has unveiled a more aggressive defence strategy aimed at countering the rise of China, while warning that Australia faces regional challenges on a scale not seen since World War II.
The strategy increases the focus on the Indo-Pacific region, with the Prime Minister warning that Australia needs to prepare for a post-COVID-19 world that is “poorer, more dangerous and more disorderly”.
Australia will build a larger military that is focused on its immediate backyard, including new long-range anti-ship missiles, signalling a major shift in the nation’s defence strategy.
“We have not seen the conflation of global economic and strategic uncertainty now being experienced here in Australia in our region since the existential threat we faced when the global and regional order collapsed in the 1930s and 1940s,” the Prime Minister warned.
Mr Morrison also announced a commitment to spend $270 billion over the next decade on defence capabilities, including more potent strike weapons, cyber capabilities and a high-tech underwater surveillance system.
Over the four years, the Australian Defence Force (ADF) is expected to grow by 800 people, comprising 650 extra personnel for the Navy, 100 for the Air Force, and 50 for the Army.
According to Defence’s 2019-20 Budget Statement, the ADF was estimated to grow to 60,090 by this year, with 16,272 full-time public service staff.
Its budget was expected to grow to 2 per cent of Australia’s gross domestic product by 2020-21, “equating to approximately $200 billion in Australia’s defence capability over 10 years”, making the new announcement an increase of $70 billion to the department.
In a speech at the Australian Defence Force Academy Mr Morrison argued the Indo-Pacific is the “epicentre” of rising strategic competition and “the risk of miscalculation — and even conflict — is heightening”.
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July 3, 2020
The History of: The British 1942 Battle Jerkin & Skeleton Battle Jerkin | Uniform History
Uniform History
Published 24 Mar 2020The start of another two parter, in this one we cover the British Battle Jerkin family as it helped inspire the US Normandy Assault Vest’s creation.
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July 2, 2020
QotD: Army recruits
Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment, 2003.
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