Russian Boots South: Conquest of Central Asia: In 1840 Central Asia was a distant frontier for the Russian Empire, but within 50 years the region had been fully integrated into the Czar’s realm. That was accomplished only after many hard-fought campaigns across the area’s vast deserts and steppes.

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• Hill 395: Korea, October 1952: In the fall of 1952, the Chinese ordered an offensive against the central sector of the UN front in Korea. It was intended to inflict further casualties on the UN, recover previously lost terrain, and gain combat experience for newly rotated Chinese units. The resultant 10-day battle for Hill 395 became an epic in the history of South Korea’s army.
• The Gallipoli Campaign, Part 2: A Strategic & Operational Analysis: The conclusion of our two-part strategic and operational analysis of the failed 1915–16 campaign at the mouth of the Dardanelles. In this issue we cover from the onset of the stalemate through to the final Allied evacuation.
• End of the Safavids: The Battle of Golnabad, 1722: In Safavid Persia in the early 1800s, raiders out of the Caucasus, Arabia and Baluchistan were despoiling the northern, southwestern and southeastern borders. At the same time, the Ottoman and Russian Empires were preparing to cut away large chunks of territory, and warfare was constant against the Moghuls. All that came to a head at the Battle of Golnabad in 1722.