Military History
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Today 12 September is the anniversary of the famous battle of Vienna in 1683. Following a two months long siege, the Ottomans were defeated by a relief army of the Holy League. T...
๐งตA Thread: With the unprecedented amount of pictures of abandoned Main Battle Tanks (MBTs) I wanted to write up this summary of what happened to the 4th Guards Tank Division - Mosc...
Today in 490 BC, 10,000 outnumbered Greek Hoplites ran across the hot plain of Marathon and crashed into the invading Persian army. Their astounding victory would shatter the perce...
There were some extremely talented generals who could have achieved an even greater legacy but were killed in a battle they were winning. One of them was Franz von Mercy, the Impe...
So I'm sure this scene is technically difficult and complex in some way I don't understand but...mostly I just get hung up on the nonsense of it - soldiers charge out of nonsensica...
Important Battles in Indian History - Part 2 (Thread)
Today 6 September is anniversary of the battle of Nรถrdlingen in 1634! Fought during the Thirty Years' War in Bavaria, Nรถrdlingen became perhaps the most iconic victory of the fame...
revisiting LA Noire and there are all kinds of small details, like the main character's family owning a shipping company, and working in military intelligence during the war https:...
https://t.co/Nd4oNCddgb Hi everyone, Long overdue my third thread on the Military history of Fascist Italy and today we are looking at the lead up to the Ethiopia War. In Novemb...
This ๐๐ป is a great point, except for the fact that itโs not really true. German systems werenโt โover-engineeredโ. They were [usually] poorly engineered and prone to frequent break...
The Battle of Ain Jalut [Thread] Date: 3rd Sep/25th Ramadan (Most underrated battle) A story of how bravely the Mamluks defeated the undefeated Mongols. It was not another battle b...
THREAD ๐ธDefeats of Dakait Shivah Raigarhi (Chhattrapati Shivaji Maharaj of marathas) NOTE : Shivaji as a leader of campaign or as of Marathas was defeated many times but I will o...
DISASTER FOR SHIVAJI : GREAT FAILURE Shivaji after trying for several times couldn't capture Danda-Rajpuri fort from Mughal officers - the Siddis. He lost 15,000 men, about...
Today 23 August is anniversary of the battle of Tagliacozzo fought in 1268. The Guelph army under Charles of Anjou defeated the Ghibellines led by young Conradin of Hohenstaufen!...
Tunnel rats in Vietnam War! This was a name for soldiers who entered secret enemy tunnels that had to be destroyed. Armed with nothing but a pistol, knife and a flashlight, these...
7 Hindu/Sikh warriors who defeated Mughals in different battles: Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj:ย In 1674, he was formally crowned the Chhatrapati, and his military forces expanded t...
My brother-in-law has been going through his fatherโs estate, and he asked me to come see if I wanted anything. He gave me these, from WWI, except for one WWII medal. The kerchief...
Thread: Hubris and Operational Planning Arrogance and overreach are rightfully viewed as the root Nazi Germany's strategic mistakes - but in this, they were not so unique. Hubris...
1/17 A war that the world has not seen for a long time... #RussianUkrainianWar #ATACMSForUkraine #OSINT @TheStudyofWar @McFaul @AlexKokcharov @KofmanMichael @shashj @general_ben @a...
Many battles in World War II were essential to the Allies victory. However, there's one that often gets ignored. It's also the one that teaches us one of history's greatest less...
Sori Bay, Karungu the location of one of the first freedom battles in Kenya and Tanzania. Ougo Ratego, a Karungu war leader, had heard of Maji Maji and its defeat in the nearby Tan...
๐ฎDid you know? That the Russian submarines protected the Indian Navy by becoming a shield against America in the 1971 war.๐ฎ 50 years ago in 1971, the US threatened India to stop...
THREAD : - Bengal Sultanate / Mughal victories over Mlechha Tripurans. - Mughal conquest of Tripura. - Humiliation of Mlechha Tripurans and their royal family of Manikyas. NOTE :...
The piece from Petraeus on Afghanistan is a fascinating down-payment on whatโs likely to become a booming cottage industry of revisionist histories on the war, grounded in retrospe...
