"HISTORY ET AL"

  The Myth of the Russian Army The Russian Army invaded Ukraine on 24 February, 2022. Most Western defense experts and NATO military experts anticipated a rapid Russian Army combined arms attack with massive Russian Air Force precision strikes, and a comprehensive cyber-attack that neutralized all Command and Control (C4I) nodes across the Ukraine. The consensus from these analysts, observers, and experts calculated a 3-5 day operation before the capitulation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Of course, the experts sometimes get things wrong. What is apparent now, is that Western analysts including the collective Western intelligence community not only got it wrong, but didn’t fully understand the true conditions of the Russian Armed Forces. Intelligence services are scrambling to reassess and develop a much more detailed and accurate appreciation of the situation on the ground in Ukraine and more specifically, the status and readiness of the Russian Armed Forces now deployed in the D...

  The “Great War”, 1914-1918: Democracies and Autocracies The “Great War”, 1914-1918, was “the largest and bloodiest war in human history to that time.” (Snow and Drew 2010). The war was fought across the globe from the trenches and fields across Europe to the steppes of Russia, the deserts of the Middle East, and the Atlantic. All over Europe hundreds of thousands of men and women went to work in factories. Manufacturing and industry was pressed into service as this war was the first that included aircraft, submarines, lethal chemicals and machineguns.       Germany, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of  Bulgaria  comprised the ‘Quadruple Alliance’ also known as the ‘Central Powers’. The ‘Central  Powers’  were pitted against the Allied Powers, or Triple Entente, from the major nations of  France,  Russia, the United Kingdom and her colonies. Allies were from as far away as New  Zealand  and Hon...

  Hypothetical Planning 1943: The Central or Southern Pacific Axis? TASK By 1943 two different viewpoints had emerged on how to win the war.  1.       One, an island-hopping strategy across the Central Pacific, utilizing American air and naval strength and few ground troops, was advocated by Admiral Nimitz.  2.       On the other hand, General Douglas MacArthur believed, mostly for personal reasons, that a drive through the Philippines would be best to bring about the final defeat of Japan.  Select one of the opposing points of view and brief the Commander-In-Chief, President Roosevelt.    INTRODUCTION    The provocative and aggressive actions by Japan in the Far East, necessitates a thorough review and redesign of current war plans. Understanding the requirements of the President with respect to the Atlantic and our key ally, the United Kingdom, a review of the Pacific strategy is proposed in...