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The History of Warfare is a 3660-minute documentary series about the most famous wars and battles in world history focusing primarily on the military annals of Great Britain. The series was created during the 1990s, when Cromwell Productions Ltd became a production company specialising in historical and arts documentaries taking the example of ...
Prehistoric warfare refers to war that occurred between societies without recorded history. The Tollense valley battlefield is the oldest evidence of a large scale battle in Europe. More than 4,000 warriors fought in a battle on the site in the 13th century BC.
The Japanese war fan, or tessen (Japanese: 鉄扇,てっせん, romanized: tessen, lit. '"iron fan"'), is a Japanese hand fan used as a weapon or for signalling. Several types of war fans were used by the samurai class of feudal Japan and each had a different look and purpose.
Keegan discusses early warfare, the proliferation of Bronze Age warfare and then Iron Age warfare (Greek hoplites and phalanxes, Roman legions and maniples).He also talks about the conquests of the "horse peoples", first under the Assyrians, then the Achaemenids, Parthians and Sassanids; then in the 7th century the Arabs conquer a lot of territory, followed by the Mongols under Genghis Khan ...
List of artillery by country; List of service rifles of national armies; Soviet Union. List of equipment of the Soviet Ground Forces. List of armored fighting vehicles of the Soviet Union
War is an armed conflict [a] between the armed forces of states, or between governmental forces and armed groups that are organized under a certain command structure and have the capacity to sustain military operations, or between such organized groups. [2]
This category organizes articles on warfare by the (primarily geographical or technological) "type" of warfare involved. Please see the category guidelines for more information. The main articles for this category are War § Types of warfare and Outline of war § Types of war .
Creating, improving, and maintaining articles that describe all aspects of military history; Providing guidelines and recommendations for editors working on military history articles; and; Serving as the central point of discussion for all issues related to military history on English Wikipedia. We are currently working towards five major ...