Military History
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It’s so funny that the Dotys are an intergenerational UFO op family — Richard’s uncle Edward headed the USAF’s Project Twinkle in the early 1950s. Screenshots from Project Beta, by...
The arms & armour of the Normans • 11th-12th centuries AD • [Thread] https://t.co/pd6MmeuJmu
Part 2 of my 100 Years War thread! You can find part 1 earlier on my page! Let's get back in. https://t.co/GP3FBoXFtR
10 July 1941: On the rugged heights of a rocky escarpment in Lebanon’s Chouf mountains, a 33-year-old soldier/farmer from the tiny town of Gingin, Western Australia, performed an a...
#Afghans_vs_Sikhs🔥 Battle of Jamrud (30 April 1837). Hari Singh Nalwa, a general of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, sent a letter to Amir Dost Muhammad Khan of Kabul. Intentions of Sikh...
Afonja and the fall of Ilorin Afonja is a key figure in the history of the fall of Ilorin. He was a Yoruba military leader and the Aare Ona Kakanfo (the generalissimo) of the Oyo...
#Nizams_Vs_Marathas🔥 All know that Marathas suffered a disastrous defeat against Abdali at the Battle of Panipat (14 Jan 1761 AD). But did you know ? Mughals led by Nizam Salaba...
Memory of Raja Man Singh: How was the great general remembered by the common populace before modern politically motivated anti Kacchawaha stance popularised by people with vested i...
Rashidun conquest of Egypt On 6 July 640 CE, Rashidun caliphate forces defeated the Byzantine armies in the battle of Heliopolis. The battle took place during the reign of Umar ib...
The Byzantine Empire experienced both eddying heights & devastating catastrophes in the 11th century, what is the reason for this? The inability to solve the security predicament...
On this date in 1187 Saladin destroyed the Crusader army at Hattin, killing or capturing all but a few hundred of more than 20,000 men. Perhaps history’s most one-sided victory, w...
How Jawaharlal Nehru planned to turn the Indian Army into a labour force From the book 'General S. M. Shrinagesh: Soldier, Scholar, Statesman' by Brig Satish K. Issar 1. Soon afte...
Neall "Nellis" Ellis: defeated an African rebel army out of spite: a brief thread >Born 1949 in South Africa >Fights in Rhodesian Bush War >Joins SA Army >Learns to fly attack hel...
🇦🇫 THREAD: Most people don't realize just how small the Western military presence in Afghanistan was in the first few years after 2001. The Western peacekeeping force for *all of*...
Lots of takes about mercenaries flying around at the moment, for obvious reasons. PSA from late medieval/early modern scholarship: mercenaries ("military entrepreneurs" in David...
I have great respect for such fearless and principled Niger Delta warriors as His Majesty King Ateke Tom— Amanyanabo of Okrika Kingdom of Okochiri and Chief Tompolo Government Owei...
Thread - The Carthaginian Army (6th - 2nd cent. BC) - Part I https://t.co/hNec8KRyVZ
1) Actually I was told every time I pointed to "western" allied soldiers abuse and rape of women of the "liberated" areas, that this never happened. In fact its very difficult to f...
1. THE DUMBUSEYA 🇿🇼 In the last years of the Rozvi/Lozwi empire (early 1800s) there was a mfecane pushed scramble to take over the territory by Nguni-Sotho generals from the sout...
Psychological warfare played a very important part in sieges. In many cases it was all about breaking the enemy's will to fight. Here are three examples of defenders using psycho...
The Mongols left behind a laconic account of the end of Ilqa Senggün, the son of Toghrul Wang Khan of the Kereit: ``Ilqa [Senggün] fled to the Tangut Kingdom, passing by Isina city...
Thread: The Battle of the Bulge and the Limits of Combat Power The Ukrainian offensive is just beginning and will take many weeks to sort itself out fully. Perhaps we can relax a...
🧵 1/ Few understand how much warfare has changed in 70 years. Sure most look at the Afghan defeats of the Soviets then the US and conclude insurgencies matter, but Afghanistan i...
The withdrawal of Andronikos Doukas from the field at Manzikert doomed the Byzantine army to one of its most infamous defeats in history. He had been tasked with a critical role i...