Operation Sea Lion: The Nazi Invasion of Britain that Never Happened
Examining an invasion plan that, if executed correctly, could have changed the course of World War II and of world history.
Here s What You Need To Remember: Nazi warplanners knew that Operation Sea Lion was doomed unless Germany controlled the skies over the English Channel.
Without doubt, the fall of France was an unmitigated disaster for the Allied cause. However, for all its failures in command, strategy, and tactics, it could have been much worse.
During the first week of June 1940, a total of 335,000 British and French soldiers were evacuated to safety in England from the embattled French beaches near the town of Dunkirk. Under continuous air attack, a hodgepodge of civilian and naval watercraft performed what came to be termed a “miracle.”
Russia will likely replace its aging
Akula and
Laika on a one-to-one basis.
Here s What You Need To Remember: The Russian boat will likely have a more versatile arsenal than its American counterpart, and this could include an array of anti-submarine armaments including high-speed Khishchnik torpedoes, USET-80 universal homing torpedoes and the MTPK-1 universal mine-torpedo anti-sub complex.
Last December Russian state-owned TV aired a segment that may have revealed the first views of a new Russian submarine, reported H. I. Sutton for Forbes.com earlier this year. Eagled-eyed Sutton noted that the segment showed an official model of a new submarine together with previously known types.
It’s not clear how many old tanks are still in service.
Here s What You Need To Remember: While North Korea is a nominally Communist dictatorship, its leadership more resembles a Confucian monarchy in many ways. It’s not out of the realm of the possible that North Korean forces would put up a fanatical defense of their regime and fight to the bitter end with whatever means they have left to them.
While the T-34/85 medium tank might be have been instrumental in the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany’s Wehrmacht in World War Two, the vintage war machine is probably still in service in North Korea.
Kimber: The Best Gun Maker on the Planet?
While Kimber today dominates the 1911 market like no other, the company wasn’t an immediate success after its founding.
Here s What You Need To Remember: The company has become known for building fine sporting firearms that are better than even the classics from the golden age of American firearms.
While it was Colt Firearms that produced the first of the John Moses Browning-designed M1911 .45 pistols, today the market leader in the category is Kimber. And it isn’t hard to see why, as the company has become known for building fine sporting firearms that are better than even the classics from the golden age of American firearms.
The Island that Russia and China Went to War Over
As Beijing and Moscow are once again enjoying a golden age, will nettlesome historical issues continue to impact the otherwise blossoming partnership?
Here s What You Need To Remember: Russia’s commemoration of the Damansky Island battle has been low key, but the few Russian articles that have been published did not pull any punches.
Few skirmishes have had consequences on the scale of the violent clash on Damansky Island [Даманский остров/珍宝岛] from early March 1969. Thankfully war was averted between the two Communist powers, but the reverberations had an enormous impact on geopolitics, and most likely also contributed in a partial way to both the demise of the USSR and the concomitant rise of China. Putting these larger historical questions aside, however, another vital question also arises when considering the blood on the Ussuri River ice that was spilled in some quantity during those dark days. As Be