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- by John Blaxland
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- by Chatter Singh
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Review of She who dared: Covert operations in Northern Ireland with the SAS by Jackie George with Susan Ottaway

Review of This is the British Forces Network: The Story of the Forces Broadcasting in Germany by Alan Grace Foreword by General Sir Brian Kelly Memories for 94 Locating regiment which was in Celle until 1994 when it went into "suspended... more

Review of This is the British Forces Network: The Story of the Forces Broadcasting in Germany by Alan Grace Foreword by General Sir Brian Kelly
Memories for 94 Locating regiment which was in Celle until 1994 when it went into "suspended animation"

This article explores the morale of the troops of British VIII Corps on Gallipoli in 1915-16, using Anthony King’s recent work on combat motivation in infantry platoons as a tool of analysis. King, partially rehabilitating the controversial work of S.L.A. Marshall, argues that left to themselves, the citizen armies of the early twentieth century tended to passivity. Officers resorted to a range of strategies to overcome this ‘Marshall Effect’, including appeals to patriotism and masculinity, mass tactics, and heroic leadership. It is contended that King’s model works well when applied to this case study – such methods were indeed employed by officers of VIII Corps - but the jury is out on its wider applicability, pending detailed case studies of other campaigns. As this article demonstrates, the morale of the troops of VIII Corps was severely tested throughout the Gallipoli campaign, as a rash of short-lived ‘panics’ demonstrated. There was a distinct downturn in August 1915, which ...

- by Gary Sheffield
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- Artillery, Political Science, Patriotism, Infantry
- by Aaron Edwards
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- Criminology, Political Science, Political Violence and Terrorism, Politics

THE GREATEST ACTION BY GUIDES INFANTRY WAS THE PATROL SENT NORTH WHICH LED INDIAN INTO MOVING A WHOLE BATTALION NORTH THUS WEAKENING INDIAN POSITION AT TITHWAL--- TOTALLY MISSED BY PAKISTAN ARMY HISTORIANS July 2022 DOI:... more

- by Agha H Amin
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- Military History
- by Ahmad Alzein
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- Zoology, Medical Physiology, Comparative Neurology, Neurosciences
- by Mike Bechthold
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- Art, Canadian Military History

According to NATO CBRN defence concept the terrorism, global in scope and lethal in results, and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction are likely to be the principal threats to the Alliance over the next 10 to 15 years.1 During the preparation of troops as a possible theatre, CBRN environment should be taken into consideration. Cadets must be prepared to survive CBRN effects and later maintain combat activities. The author of the article introduces the general standpoints of planning of CBRN defence, the characteristics of intelligence preparation of the battlefield and he points out the need of developing CBRN training. [1] A NATO ABV vedelmi koncepcioja a globalis kiterjedesű, halalos kimenetelű terrorista cselekmenyeket, valamint a tomegpusztito fegyverek proliferaciojat jelolte meg Szovetseget meghatarozoan fenyegető tenyezőkent a kovetkező 10-15 evben. A fegyveres erők felkeszitese soran szamitasba kell venni tovabbra is a fegyveres kuzdelem egyik lehetseges szintere...

- by Tamás Berek
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- Engineering
- by David Macri
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- Canadian Military History

This article is an overview of the First Canadian Army in North West Europe’s ability to recover, repair and damaged, destroyed and broken down vehicles and weapons systems. This capability was a crucial factor in maintaining the overall combat power of the Canadian Army Overseas during operations in the last year of war. To support this argument the author examines Canadian wartime primary documents as well as multiple secondary sources. G the hiGh intensity of combat operations during the Canadian Army’s period of service in North West Europe (nwe) during the last eleven months of the war in 1944-1945, an effective system of equipment recovery, repair and replacement was essential. While what has been written on wartime equipment and vehicle repair, recovery and replacement has mainly focussed on German armoured forces 1939-1945, little focus has been devoted to researching these capabilities within Allied units. Whether or not a Canadian unit’s offensive and defensive capabilitie...

- by arthur gullachsen
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- Business, Canadian Military History

A Very Thought Provoking Discussion About Battle of Bara Pind
July 2021
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.29074.58560
Project: Military History
Agha H Amin

- by Agha H Amin
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- Military History
- by David Macri
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- Canadian Military History

In a decade overshadowed by centenaries it is perhaps inevitable that fiftieth anniversaries are somewhat neglected, particularly south of the Border, where the more recent Troubles are often regarded as less relevant to the story of nation building, or even as too problematic and recent to be addressed in a historical context. Yet, as the President of Ireland Michael D Higgins said on the recent Centenary of the Sack of Balbriggan, 'If forgiveness and forgetting did not exist, we would be trapped in the past where every previous action would be irrevocable and where the present is dominated, burdened even, by preceding events and memories.' This article argues that truth recovery is better than either oblivion or keeping score.

LT COLONEL RAJA SULTAN MAHMUD 22 BALUCH AND 32 BALUCH

- by Agha H Amin
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- Leadership, Bangladesh, 1971 the liberation war of Bangladesh, Pakistan Army
- by Agha H Amin
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- Military History, British History, Leadership, Afghanistan

Artillery Fire Scatters a tank squadron

- by Agha H Amin
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- Military History, Artillery, Leadership, Warfare

The Marine Corps has long served as a "crisis reaction" force or general-purpose intervention force and it has always been an amphibious force. The debate in the early Eighties under theReagan administration regarding new roles and missions for the Marines has been settled in favor of improving firepower but retaining the traditional amphibious role of the Corps.

This is a personal narrative and not a theses or a research paper sold at zero profit and in pure public interest. This is a very personal firsthand account of British Army operations as I saw as a consultant working in Afghanistan from 29 June 2004 till to date. If you attempt to read the vast available data and literature on British Afghan war , you will end up clueless , mentally disoriented and spiritually exhausted and drained. This is so because most writers have a vested agenda or have not seen things directly. This narrative is based on the following experiences :-- A close and direct association with Afghanistan as descendant of a family that migrated from Afghanistan in early nineteenth century but maintained contact with Afghanistan.My grandfathers brother served as doctor with Afghan Royal family from 1929 to 1945.My uncle served as a First Secretary in Pakistan Embassy from 1969 to 1971. As a Pakistan Army officer I saw Afghan war closely from 1981 to 1994. And finally as a consultant permanently stationed in Afghanistan from 29 June 1994 till todate I saw the ongoing Afghan war closely. Helmand was my area of operations as I was General manager of RDA an Afghan American NGO building clinics in Khanishin , Garmser , Nad I Ali , Musa Qila etc for the US firm Louis Burger.

- by Agha H Amin
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- Decision Making, Leadership, Afghanistan, British Army (Post 1945)
- by Leonard F W Leader
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- Ireland, Northern Ireland, Contingency Planning, British Army (Post 1945)
- by Aleksander Glogowski
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- British Army (Post 1945), Gurkhas

This author wrote his doctorate thesis on post-conflict army reconstruction, submitting it in 2011. Continued research on the subject in the intervening seven years indicates that his theoretical propositions can be refined and improved. This article examines refinements to the model, and then applies those refinements in detail to the Afghan case. In so doing, it shifts the focus from potentially altruistic state-building to a case that was driven by pure national-strategic interests. Issues surrounding the liberal peace ideology dominate recent army reconstruction in conflict-affected states. The liberal peace underpinning is of supreme importance, so much so that in many discussions, it is internalised and accepted virtually without thought. This paper will advance the body of knowledge by establishing, for the first time, a theoretical basis for the widespread failure of army reconstruction in Afghanistan. The empirical basis builds on extensive previous research by other scholars. The resulting model can also be applied to better explain outcomes in other similar cases.

Veteran Tommy Clough recalls the Battle of the Imjin River during the Korean War.

- by Tom Garner
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- History, Military History, Modern History, British History

This article examines the murder of two British Army corporals by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) in March 1988. In doing so it reveals much about the micro dynamics of the political violence which occurred during the Northern Ireland conflict. The central theoretical contention of the article is that most human beings are not particularly good at violence, and for the most part, irrespective of motive, can only participate in such actions when they have what is defined as attacker advantage. The attacker advantage principle stipulates that on most occasions when most humans feel it necessary or choose to resort to offensive violence, they do so on the premise of having the advantage, or a perceived advantage, over their intended target.

During an excavation on the Rotenbreite near Borgentreich, Kr. Höxter, it was possible to document and analyze a disposal pit of a military unit. The findings show that a British unit camped at this hill for a short time. Primary the inventory of findings consists of ca. 340 tins and in addition of a spoon and a plate belonging to the war department plus e. g. german and scandinavian beer- and colabottles. By means of the findings it is possible to date the feature into the 60s/70s of the 20.th century with a terminus post quem of 1968. Because the British barrack in Borgentreich was abandoned at this time, there has to be another explanation for the presence of British troops. Presumably the soldiers participated in the manoeuvre "Marsh Mallow" in 1969.
In this manoeuvre 10 000 soldiers from different nations trained under a British command in the regions Niedersachsen and Nordrhein-Westfalen.
After abandoning the camp, the waste was partial burnt and afterwards buried.
The pit delivers insight into the military course of life of British soldiers who were garrisoned in Germany (British Army of the Rhine/Rhine Garrison). Besides it shows how the British troops were supplied and how they complemented their rations with foreign, e. g. german and scandinavian, products.

- by Tobias Schade and +2
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- Globalization, Cold War, Contemporary Archaeology, Archaeology of the Contemporary Past
- by Peter Speiser
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- Anglo-German relations, British Army (Post 1945), Occupation History

The 2016 White Paper[1], concerning the development of German defensive interests, defined an inter-European military coalition to be at the centre of Germany's role within the European Union (EU). The opinions of young officer cadets in the United Kingdom and Germany, however, were highly divergent in relation to a European defence alliance. The results of a study carried out in 2014 with 755 officer cadets from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and the Military Officer School (Offizierschule des Heeres) in Dresden did not only reflect the Euro-skeptic position of the British people (which reached its peak in 2016 with " Brexit "), but also the German soldiers' sceptical position in regards to a Europeanisation of military matters.

Forthcoming article in Global War Studies examines how the British Army prepared for atomic warfare in the 1950s

- by James Wither
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2010 verwies der ehemalige Außenminister Guido Westerwelle auf die Vorteile eines europazentrierten, eigenständigen Krisenmanagements zur Stärkung der NATO. Vier Jahre später unterstützte Verteidigungsministerin Ursula von der Leyen ebenfalls diesen Ansatz in Form einer zunächst auf Resourcenzusammenlegung (pooling) und-teilung (sharing) angelegte Militärkooperation, die sich in weiten Teilen bereits in der European Battlegroup wiederfinden lässt. Auch das Weissbuch 2016 hat die staatenübergreifende Vernetzung militärischer Belange wieder ins Zentrum der Weiterentwicklung von Deutschlands Rolle innerhalb der Europäischen Union gestellt. In Großbritannien und Deutschland gehen die Meinungen der angehenden Führungskräfte des Heeres gegenüber einem europäischen Verteidigungsbündnis jedoch weit auseinander. Das Ergebnis einer 2014 durchgeführten Studie mit 755 Offizieranwärtern an der Royal Military Academy Sandhurst und der Offizierschule des Heeres in Dresden spiegelt nicht nur die europaskeptische Position der Briten wider, (die 2016 ihren Höhepunkt im Brexit gefunden hat,) sondern auch die kritische Beurteilung deutscher Soldaten gegenüber einer Europäisierung militärischer Belange. Einstellungen gegenüber einer Europaarmee Mehr als die Hälfte der befragten deutschen und britischen Offizieranwärter konnte sich den Aufbau einer staatenübergreifenden europäischen Armee, die dazu dienen würde, die bestehenden nationalen Streitkräfte zu ergänzen, nicht vorstellen.

- by Sarah Katharina Kayß
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- Military History, European Studies, Military Science, Military Intelligence
- by joan labaguis
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This article is about the late Brigadier John Humphrey Montagu (1919-2014) and his Kukri (Khukuri) knifes. I´ve focused on his military career (Part 1) and the two Kukri knifes (Part 2) he acquired during his service in India and the Far East between 1939-1968.
John Humphrey Montagu rarely spoke about his military career though he had served almost 30 years in the Army, with the Gurkhas across half the world, with distinction. The late Brigadier Montagu followed his father into the Army and joined the Armed Forces at a time when the sun never set over the British Empire, prior to the 2nd World War (WW2). He was commissioned into the Duke of Cornwall´s Light Infantry in 1939 and during WW2 served in the 8th Gurkha Rifles on the frontiers of India and Burma. After the War and Indian Independence he served a short period in Royal Army Service Corps and 7th Gurkha Rifles, before transferring to 10th Princess Mary`s Own Gurkha Rifles.
He saw the British Empire at its height and over the years how it crumbled and former colonies became independent sovereign nations by the time he retired. During 30 years he served in WW2, Indian Independence, Malayan Emergency, Borneo Confrontation and Hong Kong.

- by vk kunwor
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- History, Military History, Cultural Studies, Cultural Heritage

Britain now has the smallest Armed Forces for over 100 years, and a defence policy that seems out of step with current events. In an attempt to analyse the relevance and planning of Defence this article looks at policy from the last two decades of the Cold War – the time of ‘Flexible Response’ – to the present. The publicly articulated conventional strategy of the UK is often divergent with the actions implemented by the Government. These actions include efficiency drives, increased use of reservists and cutting the “tail” to provide for the “teeth”. Although the analysis starts in the Cold War, it does so to demonstrate the continued rhetoric employed to justify cuts in the Armed Services.

- by Kenton White
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- Cold War, British defence policy