Military history Archives | The Odd Historian

“War is politics by other means”, as one Prussian general famously quipped. And just like politics, one should not be

At Cagayan, 40 Spanish soldiers made a stand against an army of samurai

During the 16th century, it could be said that the Spaniards truly ruled the waves. Once a backwater feudal kingdom,

As the fortune of war shifted against Nazi Germany by the mid of 1942, its leadership increasingly placed their hopes

From range to firepower, when it comes to guns – size matters. Mankind had always been keen on finding ways

Accorded by some as being the most effective and long-lived military institution known to history, Rome’s military was the key

They say necessity is the mother of invention and humans, since the earliest times, have found it a necessity to

Poor Germany always the gets the wrong blame for starting the First World War. However, the powder keg was already

Short of a natural calamity, few things influence our history as much as warfare: redrawing borders, killing men of influence

Whether alone or in a group, some men were destined to die gloriously and be forever remembered in history. In