Military Technology
Jay Wertz |
Published: May 19, 2010 at 5:22 pm
Ground War, a new 4-part PBS documentary, explores how man’s ingenuity and development of technological solutions has made land combat a constantly changing element in the art of war, from the phalanx to the Abrams tank.
Stephen Budiansky |
Published: April 12, 2010 at 11:08 am
In 1940, the Blitz found Britain utterly unprepared to cope with the rain of unexploded German bombs that quickly began filling the streets of London and other major cities. No one had even anticipated the problem, certainly not John Hudson.
Published: January 12, 2010 at 6:54 pm
P.W. Singer - a senior fellow at the Washington, D.C.-based Brookings Institution and a former consultant to the departments of State and Defense - explores the history, development and current state of military robotics in his new book Wired for War.
Robert M. Citino |
Published: January 06, 2010 at 5:27 pm
MAJ George Patton's 1932 essay, "The Probable Characteristics of the Next War."
Robert M. Citino |
Published: January 06, 2010 at 1:45 pm
We often criticize armies who train "to fight the last war." The real problem, however, is that they train based on mistaken notions of what the next war will be like.
Robert M. Citino |
Published: December 13, 2009 at 8:38 pm
Hitler didn't use poison gas, but--needless to say--it wasn't because he had doubts about the morality of it all.
Max Gadney |
Published: September 18, 2009 at 11:05 am
The Supermarine Spitfire was designed by R. J. Mitchell in 1934 as an agile,
high-speed British fighter. The Spitfire name covers 24 different variants—planes that differ greatly in firepower, armor, engine power, and airframe design. Late Spitfires bore little resemblance to their forebears.
Robert M. Citino |
Published: September 14, 2009 at 9:42 am
The M-3 Grant medium tank gets no respect. In May 1942, however, at the battle of Gazala, it might have constituted the margin of survival for the British 8th Army.
Published: August 28, 2009 at 6:15 pm
Exclusive podcast interview with author Mike Green about his book War Stores of the Tankers: American Armored Combat, 1918 to Today.
Robert M. Citino |
Published: August 22, 2009 at 11:25 pm
The myth that Polish cavalry charged German Panzers during the September campaign of 1939 refuses to die.
Published: August 20, 2009 at 4:57 pm
Jacques Littlefield was a multimillionaire who assembled the largest tank and military vehicle collection in America before his death in 2009. Listen to a podcast of one of the last interviews conducted with this fascinating man.
Max Gadney |
Published: July 14, 2009 at 5:45 pm
The main offensive weapon of German ground-based air defense was the 88, a powerful medium-caliber gun. It quickly developed a reputation as a formidable opponent of Allied aircraft.
Published: July 14, 2009 at 5:36 pm
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Ronald H. Bailey |
Published: July 14, 2009 at 5:00 pm
The jeep was created in record time at the outbreak of World War II, the fruit of a U.S. Army–brokered “collaboration” between Ford and two smaller companies. The jeep has endured as the ubiquitous icon of American military might.
Stephan Wilkinson |
Published: July 09, 2009 at 2:36 pm
In the wake of World War I, British Army officer J.F.C. “Boney” Fuller advocated innovative tank tactics, but only Germany’s Wehrmacht listened to him
Justin Ewers |
Published: May 22, 2009 at 10:26 am
JULY 2009 — There may not be a more memorable—or terrifying—way to have been in the wrong place at the wrong time. Twice. This spring, a 93-year-old Japanese man, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, was the first person to be officially certified as …
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