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Cataphracts were the most heavily armoured form of cavalry in the ancient world, with riders and mounts both clad in heavy armour. Originating among the wealthiest nobles of various central Asian steppe...

‘As swift as windAs subtle as forestAs fierce as fireAs unmovable as mountain.’– The Fūrinkazan banner of Takeda ShingenTake command of the massed armies of your clans!Battle to the death for...

A study of the last 100 years of conflict suggests that air power dominates warfare. Air power was successfully applied in the Spanish Civil War, First and Second World Wars, Vietnam War, Six Day War,...

The United States and Soviet Union began a race to develop the first and most capable fifth generation stealth fighters in the late 1970s. The Cold War’s end, however, was followed by both a near...

After the withdrawal of the USA and then the government and forces of the Kuomintang from the Mainland China, and the declaration of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) led by Mao Tse Tung, it appeared that the times of the Civil Air Transport would find an end. However, immediately after, new wars erupted in Korea and in the French Indochina.

The most complete and up-to-date work on all there is to know about the Korean People’s Army Ground Forces today. Sixteen unique artworks and well over 150 images that have been collected over a decade’s work complement painstaking analysis describing every detail of the North’s ‘Military First’ endeavors.

This book describes the so-called Eelam War III during which the war became an almost full-fledged conventional conflict, at least in the north of the country, where the Tamil Tigers and the Sri Lankan armed forces waged a series of full-fledged battles on land and sea.

No combatant nation of the Second World War has been more forgotten than Thailand. Ignored by most histories of the war, the Southeast Asian kingdom conducted campaigns outside its borders and kept an army in the field until after the surrender of Japan, longer than other minor belligerents such as Belgium, Norway, and Greece.