The Battle of Sekigahara took place on October 21, 1600 in what is now Gifu Prefecture on the Japanese island of Honshu at the end of the Sengoku period. This battle was fought by the forces of Tok...

The Battle of Lissa or Battle of Vis (Croatian: Bitka kod Visa) took place on 20 July 1866 in the Adriatic Sea near the Dalmatian island of Vis (Lissa in Italian) and was a significant victory for ...

The Thirty Years' War from 1618 to 1648 is considered one of the most destructive wars in European history. It is estimated that between 4.5 and 8 million soldiers and civilians died as a direct re...

The Thirty Years' War of 1618 to 1648 is considered one of the most destructive wars in European history. It is estimated that between 4.5 and 8 million soldiers and civilians died as a direct resu...

Since 2010 I have published the following series of simulations: I. Historical Simulation of the Wars of the First Empires; II. Historical Simulation of the Wars in Classical Greece; III. Historica...

As a result of a dedicated study of Military History for more than 40 years, I present to the reader a consolidation of my Principles of War, my Operational Systems and my Fundamentals for Leadersh...

For most of the period from the late 10th century to the 7th century BC, the ancient Near East was dominated by the dynamic military power of Assyria. At the height of its power, Assyria could clai...

Bannockburn, on June 24, 1314, was a significant Scottish victory in Scotland's First War of Independence, and a milestone in its history. It took place in an area near Stirling Castle, occupied by...

One of the battles of the Hundred Years War took place on Friday, October 25, 1415, between a French army and an invading English army retreating to Calais. It gained literary fame because of a pla...

The basis of British Naval Military Planning was to keep the waterways open to Britain and the Allies, but closed to Germany and the Central Powers. The military strategic objective of the Ottoman ...

It took place between February 24 and 27, 1991, with its main phase at Kuwait International Airport. However, much of the fighting actually took place on the airport access routes. Iraqi forces wer...

The Thirty Years' War from 1618 to 1648 is considered one of the most destructive wars in European history. It is estimated that between 4.5 and 8 million soldiers and civilians died as a direct re...

The three countries (population 11 million) historically arrayed against Paraguay (population 450,000) were so superior in numbers that we can conclude that López never had a real chance of defeati...

Since 1862, politicians argued with the imperial government about the need to improve the border defenses of Mato Grosso and Rio Grande do Sul, which at that time were dangerously unguarded. Let's ...

It was the decisive engagement of the Italian War from 1521 to 1526 between the Valois Kingdom of France and the Habsburg empire of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and ruler of Spain, Austria, the Ne...

When a fleet of 128 Habsburgs left Coruña in late May 1588, under Alonzo Guzmán, Duke of Medina, with the aim of escorting and transporting an army from Flanders (present-day Belgium) to invade Eng...

In the 16th and 17th centuries, Poland suffered a series of dynastic crises during the reigns of Kings Vasa, Sigismund III and Władysław IV, and was involved in major conflicts with Russia, Sweden ...

The battle of Adrianople in 378 AD was fought between a Roman army led by Emperor Flavius Valens and a Germanic army - mainly of Ostrogoths and Visigoths - led by Fritigern. It took place in Adrian...

Religion, which in principle could be a pacifying human activity, was marked in the Medieval Age by clashes between two of the greatest, both in their early days, Islam and Christianity. In strateg...

The Tamoios Confederation or Tamoios War (comes from the Tupi word tamyîa or tamuîa, which means “ancestors”) took place between 1554 and 1567. In the 16th century, the Tupinambás occupied the coas...