Military and Naval
Conference at Wethersfield 1781
The opening of the 1781 campaign season in the North did not look terribly promising for the Americans. The Continental Army was in as poor a state as it had been at any time in the five and a half years of its existence. Washington, who had discontinued his diary in 1775, resumed it in May 1781, setting the stage…
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Military Glasnost
The Krasnoyarsk radar was designed for ballistic missile detection and tracking, including ballistic missile early warning, and violated the 1972 ABM Treaty. It was not located within a 150-kilometer radius of the national capital (Moscow) as required of ABM radars, or was it located on the periphery of the Soviet…
Naval Operations in Scotland in the 18th Century
The action took place off Bishops Court between Captain Elliott and the French Captain Thurot Pirates and Smugglers During the first half of the eighteenth century the Royal Navy rarely operated in Scottish waters unless there was a specific threat from Jacobites, smugglers or pirates. By this time Scotland was…
Luftwaffe 1939 Poland II
No other general was more current with the situation on the ground than Richthofen. When duty did not absolutely require him to be inside his command post, he was either up near the front with his specially equipped signals units — or he was over enemy territory in the cockpit…
The Prince after Culloden
Charles Edward Stuart as an old man. In forcing the British government to recognise that they could no longer hold on to the North American colonies, the American Patriots achieved what the Jacobites had failed to do – inflict a decisive defeat on the authority of the British Crown. With…
Sopwith Camel: the Two-edged Sword
During the fierce air fighting that characterised the last two years of the First World War, the Sopwith Camel destroyed more enemy aircraft than any other Allied fighter. To those pilots who mastered its vicious idiosyncracies, and turned them to their own advantage, it was a magnificent fighting machine; to…
THE BATTLE OVER HAMBURG
Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris called it Operation Gomorrah. On four nights between July 24 and August 2, 1943, he dispatched huge formations of heavy bombers to blitz Hamburg, Germany’s largest seaport and a leading ship-building and industrial center, from end to end. Bomber Command had never mounted such…