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Resupply by sea The Spanish were able to resupply Ceuta by sea. Moroccans were not capable of preventing that. At that time the Spanish navy was no longer the world's dominant sea power, but more than …

No. That's wishful thinking. Humans can be pretty violent, to put it mildly. Population pressure will automatically create violence. Productive sites that are relatively save in isolation are rare. On …

Being in the business of violent enforcement and premeditated murder (we call that 'war'), they had ways to convince their paymaster rethink his sloppy payment policy. … After the first Punic war they tried to forgo payment, which didn't sit well with the mercenaries. …

The Romans never went to war, unless it was justified, at least from the Roman point of view. The other point of view was irrelevant. The justified war concept goes back long before the Romans. …

bigger (surrounded by wounded) targets Ambulances are dream targets: shoot one, get three or four hits This is such a problem in the Middle East, where some people have very limited views on rules of war …

The Turkish occupation of Cyprus in 1974 fits your requirements. In 2024, it will be occupied successfully for half a century.

I also found some references the Prussian army committed atrocities during the Franco-Prussian war. … I'd like to know if there are examples of atrocities earlier, for example during the Prussian-Austrian war or the Prussian-Danish war. I'm not looking for genocide, that happened in WW2. …

It's logical you can't find hard data, because your premises are flawed. Look at medieval cities. What do you notice? A city wall. That's what separated the sheep from the goats, in this case: cities …

The Swedish Stridsvagn 103 didn't have a turret. The driver was also the gunner. He aimed the gun with his driving controls and raising/lowering the suspension. The radio operator sat at the back, and …

Not exactly a world war causing event, but fairly recent: in 2014 a Russian diplomat, Dmitri Borodin, was arrested for drunk and disorderly conduct, as well as insulting the police in his house in Scheveningen …

The Dutch - Scilly Islands War or The 305-Year War comes to mind. … No propaganda was used - a reason why this war lasted that long; everybody had forgotten it! …

The kingdoms of Ayutthaya, before that Sukhothai, and after that Siam were perpetually at war with the Burmese. Sometimes the Burmese won, sometimes the (now) Thais. …

Why weren't aircraft carriers used to launch fighter planes to support bombers to targets in Germany? Because it was very dangerous to do. HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse were sank because t …

Long time ago I wondered about the same. I always thought the Roman army (early imperial, of course) would beat the crap out of any opponent until the end of the middle ages. After learning a lot abou …

The Romans conquered Gaul, parts of Germany and along the Danube. The Mongols conquered most of Russia. Ayutthaya Thais conquered the Lanna kingdom in the north (Chiang Mai) The Japanese conquered …