Introduction A military parade is a formation of soldiers whose movement is restricted by close-order manoeuvring known as drilling or marching. Large military parades are today held on major holidays and military events around the world. Massed parades may also hold a role for propaganda purposes, being used to exhibit the apparent military strength of… Read More
Introduction The Caroline affair (also known as the Caroline case) was a diplomatic crisis involving the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Canadian independence movement which lasted from 1837 to 1842. This modest military incident eventually acquired substantial international legal significance. The affair began on 28 December 1837, when hundreds of Americans who had… Read More
Introduction A preventive war is an armed conflict “initiated in the belief that military conflict, while not imminent, is inevitable, and that to delay would involve greater risk.” The party which is being attacked has a latent threat capability or it has shown that it intends to attack in the future, based on its past… Read More
Introduction Werwolf (German for “werewolf”) was a Nazi plan which began development in 1944, to create a resistance force which would operate behind enemy lines as the Allies advanced through Germany, in parallel with the Wehrmacht fighting in front of the lines (refer to World War II). It is widely misconstrued as having been intended… Read More
Introduction The guerrilla war in the Baltic states was an insurgency waged by Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian partisans against the Soviet Union from 1944 to 1956. Known alternatively as the “Forest Brothers”, the “Brothers of the Wood” and the “Forest Friars” (Estonian: metsavennad, Latvian: mežabrāļi, Lithuanian: žaliukai), these partisans fought against Soviet forces during their… Read More
Introduction The “cursed soldiers” (also known as “doomed soldiers”, “accursed soldiers” or “damned soldiers”; Polish: żołnierze wyklęci) or “indomitable soldiers” (Polish: żołnierze niezłomni) is a term applied to a variety of anti-Soviet imperialist and anti-communist Polish resistance movements formed in the later stages of World War II and its aftermath by members of the Polish… Read More
Introduction The Correlates of War (CoW) project is an academic study of the history of warfare. It was started in 1963 at the University of Michigan by political scientist J. David Singer. Concerned with collecting data about the history of wars and conflict among states, the project has driven forward quantitative research into the causes… Read More
Boot Camp & Military Fitness Institute 