The Seven Years' War (1756–1763) was a global conflict between Great Britain and France for global preeminence. Britain, France and Spain fought both in Europe and overseas with armies and fleets, ...

The current economic environment leads to the adoption of strategic initiatives in order to guarantee the survival of companies. Companies need to have the best resources. In thiscontext, the eli...

The Battle of Marathon was the first time a phalanx had confronted more lightly armed troops, revealing its effectiveness. The phalanx as a formation was still vulnerable to cavalry (a cause of gre...

The Battle of Plataea was the decisive ground battle during the second Persian invasion of Greece. It took place in 479 BC near the town of Plataea in Boeotia, between an alliance of Greek city sta...

The Peloponnese War marks a change of course of the events in the history of Greece. The Spartan strategy was to erode the Athenian economy and thus weaken its alliances. Without a solution to cont...

The Peloponnese War marks a change of course of the events in the history of Greece. While relying on its navy, Athens maintained the security of its essentially maritime lines of commerce and dipl...

Generally speaking, I consider that this Age of human history characterizes a watershed, as at the end most contacts - or clashes - between the existing civilizations on the planet had been made, b...

As the main characteristics of this period in the Naval War we highlight that since ancient times, war at sea had been fought as on land, with shock weapons, bows and arrows on floating wooden plat...

French involvement in the American Revolutionary War from 1775 to 1783 began when France, a hotbed of Enlightenment ideas and a historic rival to the Kingdom of Great Britain, secretly sent supplie...

The Senate of Rome planned no war against Parthia, arguing that the Parthians were protected by peace treaties validated by Rome and thus any betrayal of Roman attack would be set up. But relentles...

After Hanibal's first devastating victories on the Italian peninsula, Fabius employed a skillful campaign of attrition against the Carthaginians - hence his nickname Cunctator. However, on August 2...

It could only have been a logistical necessity that made Hannibal march after Scipio to the Battle of Zama, for apparently it would be more logical for him to lead his army toward the city of Carth...

Falkirk, on July 22, 1298, was one of the largest battles in the First War of Independence in Scotland, in an area southeast of Falkirk village, between a swamp formed by the Glenn and Westquarter ...

The Battle of Poitiers took place on September 19, 1356 in the commune of Nouaillé-Maupertuis, south of the city of Poitiers, France. Preceded by the Battle of Crécy in 1346, and followed by the Ba...

Also known as the Battle of Navarrete, it was fought on April 3, 1367, near Nájera, in the province of La Rioja, in Castile. It was an episode of the First Castilian Civil War in which King Pedro I...

World War I broke out on July 28, 1914 with the declaration of war of the Austro-Hungarian Empire against Serbia and concluded on November 11, 1918 with the signing of an armistice by Germany, even...

In the outbreak of war, the Russian commander-in-chief, grand duke Nicolay, sought to accelerate the invasion of East Prussia in order to ease German pressure on the French allies. At the beginning...

British Admiral Jellicoe wanted to take the opportunity, thanks to his superior numbers, to destroy the essentials of the German fleet without major losses. He would thus leave his units free to de...

By 1917 Cambrai had become one of the most important nodes of the German railway and command and control system. It was protected behind the defenses of the Hindenburg Line. The German defensive po...

A simulation, through a war game, of what would have been a military confrontation between the forces of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and those of the Union of Soviet Socialist Rep...