Military History
Strategic culture: four national ways of war in Europe
Strategic culture and national ways of war: Russian fatalism, Anglo-American pragmatism, German idealism and Spanish honour — the examples and the objections.
Military History
Campaigns, battles and doctrines across the centuries: from the hoplite phalanx and the Roman legions to the world wars.
Military History
Air Support at Sidi Ifni: The Ifni War of 1957-58
How Spanish aviation supported isolated Ifni outposts after the attack of 23 November 1957, including Spain's first wartime parachute jump at Tiliuin.
Military History
From Knights to Pilots: Nobility and the Military Career
Why military careers were a traditional path for Europe's nobility, and how First World War pilots inherited the aristocratic imagery of medieval chivalry.
Military History
Condottieri: mercenaries of the Italian republics
How the condottieri worked, what an Italian military contract actually said, and why the myth of bloodless Renaissance battles does not survive the sources.
Military History
Psychological Warfare at the Front: Stuka Sirens, Bombardment and Fear
How Stuka sirens, bombardment and displays of firepower shaped fear at the front, separating documented human effects from myths about battlefield terror.
Military History
The youngest generals in Europe since Napoleon
Why the French Revolution produced generals in their twenties, which young commanders are documented, and how later European armies changed promotion practices.
Military History
War Economy II: Mobilisation, Inflation, and Rationing
How wartime mobilisation reshapes factories, labour, prices and consumption, and why inflation, rationing and social costs extend beyond the battlefield.
Military History
Military Values and Nobility: Origins of Warrior Honour
Where military values come from: Veblen on the predatory leisure class, Keen and Huizinga on chivalric codes, and which honour customs are actually documented.
Military History
Shell Shock in World War I: The Origins of PTSD
Shell shock forced the armies of 1914–18 to confront psychological wounds they barely understood. Its history illuminates—but is not identical to—modern PTSD.
Military History
Arms Trafficking After the USSR and Yugoslavia
How the arsenals of the former Soviet republics and the old Yugoslavia were scattered in the 1990s, and the black market in light weapons that resulted.
Military History
Military Logistics: Historical Cases of Cut Supply Lines
How military logistics shaped Stalingrad, Rommel's campaign in North Africa and the Pacific submarine war, showing the consequences of disrupted supply lines.
Military History
Königsberg: The Military History of a Prussian Key City
Königsberg's Prussian military history, from Kant and von Kleist to the General Staff: from Prussia's capital to Kaliningrad, a militarized Russian exclave.
Military History
Guerrilla Warfare: Origins and Spain's 1808 Resistance
What guerrilla warfare means, the Spanish origins of the term, and how resistance to Napoleon from 1808 to 1814 influenced later accounts of irregular warfare.
Military History
The Levée en Masse and the Shift to Total War in 1793
How revolutionary France's levée en masse in 1793 expanded national mobilisation, reshaped warfare and contributed to the historical development of total war.