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Strategy & Tactics Issue #360 - Magazine
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Eagles of Rome II: The Era of Scipio During the third, second and first centuries BC, the Roman legion emerged as the dominant military system across the Mediterranean world. To achieve that, the legions overcame the armies of Alexander’s Successor states and the Carthaginian Empire. Here is our analysis. Feature articles including: The Battle of Big Hole Basin, The Kaiser’s Raiders: 1914–18, Firebase Ripcord
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Strategy & Tactics Issue #359 - Magazine
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Forgotten Front: Italy, June 1944–May 45 On 5 June 1944, Rome fell to the Allies. It was the first Axis capital to do so, and it should have been huge news. However, D-Day took place the next day. As one reporter put it at the time, Allied forces in Italy—and across the Mediterranean—suddenly “become performers without an audience.” Italy remained a backwater for the rest of the war, but here is our analysis of its continued strategic importance. Feature articles including: 17th Century Corporate Wars, The Battle of Parwan: Afghanistan, 1221, The Cenepa War
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Strategy & Tactics Issue #358 - Magazine
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Pensacola & the American Revolution in the Southwest In 1779, Louisiana was a remote colony far from the centers of power of the Spanish Empire. Ceded to Spain by the French after the Seven Years War, the Spanish saw it as a defensive barrier protecting their more valuable colonies to the south. Over the next two years, however, Louisiana and the Gulf coast became a critical theater in the American Revolution. Here is our analysis of that strategic evolution. Feature articles including: Battle of the Bagradas River: 255 BC, Romanian Disaster at Stalingrad, Battle for Hill 108
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Strategy & Tactics Issue #357 - Magazine
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CENTCOM: War for the Persian Gulf, 2001–03 In 2001 the US and its coalition partners launched operations in the Persian Gulf, first in Afghanistan and then Iraq. Both were initiated as responses to the 11 September 2001 terror attacks against the Twin Towers and Pentagon. Both were initially successful, but then led to continuing conflicts that have altered the balance of power across the Middle East. Feature articles including: Defeat of the White Sheep Turks, Gallipoli Quagmire: Four Battles of Krithia, George Washington’s Crusade Against the Iroquois
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Strategy & Tactics Issue #356 - Magazine
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The Siege of Vienna: 1683 In September 1683, a battle was fought around Vienna, Austria, in which a coalition of European nations engaged the Ottoman forces besieging that city. The battle proved to be a turning point in European history. Feature articles including: Battle of the Aegates Islands, The Liberation of Prague: 5–11 May 1945, The 1970 Cambodian Incursion
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Strategy & Tactics Issue #355 - Magazine
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The 11 Days War In February 1918, the Central Powers launched their last offensive in Russia. Their objective was the overthrow of the new Bolshevik regime, and their forces made huge advances from the Baltic Sea to the Don Basin. The offensive was codenamed Operation Punch (Faustschlag in German) and it came close to changing the course of history. Feature articles including: Arthur Wellesley & The Siege of Badajoz, The Battle of Ankara: 20 July 1402, The Russo-Georgian War of 2008
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Strategy & Tactics Issue #354 - Magazine
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Eagles of Rome: War in the Late Republic & Early Empire The Roman army of the early empire (31 BC–AD 193) had its origins in the late 2nd century BC with the rise of Gaius Marius during the final stage of the Republic. Here is our analysis of that military system and four of that era’s most crucial battles. Feature articles including: Gettysburg, Day 2, Wake Island, 1941: “Enemy on Island, Issue in Doubt”, Beirut 1982: Urban Guerilla War
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Strategy & Tactics Issue #353 - Magazine
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Ukraine War Preamble, 2014–15 In February 2014, Russian armed forces took Crimea from Ukraine in a quick, bloodless and smoothly professional operation. It was an impressive demonstration of Russian capabilities, so different from the botched operations in Chechnya in 1994–96 and 2000–09. The question therefore arises: how did that same Russian military manage to maneuver itself into a quagmire starting 2022? Feature articles including: The Albigensian Crusade, 17th Century Barbary Corsairs, The Brusilov Offensive
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Strategy & Tactics Issue #352 - Magazine
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The French & Indian War: Conquest of a Continent, In July 1754, two forces, one from French Canada and the other from the British colony of Virginia, clashed in the Ohio Valley frontier. The British were under the command of a provincial officer named George Washington. The battle was the harbinger of many more campaigns that pitted the two empires against each other in a contest for North America, which become known as the French & Indian War. Feature articles including: Queen Artemisia of Halicarnassus, The Four Battles of Rzhev: 1942–43, Budapest 1956
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Strategy & Tactics Issue #350 - Magazine
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Rêves de Gloire (Dreams of Glory): Napoleon vs. the Coalitions From 1805 to 1815, Napoleon led France in wars against five coalitions of European powers. French dominance until near the end of those years was a result of his operational and tactical genius. At the higher level of strategy, however, he displayed an increasing degree of narcissistic wilfulness that flew in the face of good planning and ultimately led to his and France’s defeat. Feature articles including: The Rise & Fall of Teotihuacán, The Irish Civil War: 1922–23, Red Dragon / Green Crescent: Potential War in the Pacific & Indian Oceans
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