Warfare, past and present.
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Leggiere’s argument is that Napoleon became fixated on an initial “master plan” for the campaign, and continued to pursue it long after the situation changed, detracting from his usual strategy of directly targeting the main enemy army.
On 25 June 1950, ten infantry divisions and an armored division of the Korean People’s Army crossed the 38th Parallel. They quickly overwhelmed the unprepared South Koreans and drove south. The US 21st Division, sent over from Japan, was overrun in the first weeks of July. 
The Rappahannock runs 300 km through northern Virginia, flowing past Fredericksburg midway between Washington and Richmond. Although not especially wide, it has a few features that made it a natural military frontier between North and South. 
If grand strategy is the use of a country’s resources to protect & further its interests, who defines its interests? Even *formulating* grand strategy involves political wrangling—much easier in a small state where everyone’s livelihood depends on the sea.
In the Napoleonic era, a divisional or corps staff was never more than a dozen soldiers, whereas today it’s pushing toward a thousand for formations of about the same size. Part of a general trend in tooth-to-tail ratios. 
The North Africa campaign of WWII is the much more famous of these. It saw the exploits of three of the most famous commanders of the war—Rommel, Montgomery, and Patton—as well as some of the most dramatic back-and-forths. But what were Axis objectives there? 
The Crusaders’ great strength was the mounted charge: a line of heavily-armored knights lowering their lances and advancing as one. This was extremely effective especially against the more lightly-armored soldiers they encountered in the East. 
This was partly in response to an interesting RUSI paper on the future of armor in the British Army, looking at the survivability of individual platforms. Equally important is to look at how armor fits in with the entire combined-arms scheme.
The Sixth Coalition was formed in March 1813 when Prussia and Sweden declared war on France, encouraged by Russia’s successes the previous year. This forced Napoleon, who was rebuilding his shattered army, to scramble to defend eastern Germany. 
What became known as the Seven Years' War was formally declared by France and Britain in 1756, although fighting had broken out in the North American colonies two years earlier. British colonials began by pushing over the Appalachians to seize French forts, but were repulsed. 
The first is an article on Ukraine’s use of drones for indirect fire control. This alone is nothing new—it’s been apparent since last March that guided artillery, far more than ATGMs, has been the most effective weapon of the war.
This ferment originated in France in reaction to her defeat in the Seven Years' War.
A reverse slope defense is simply when the defender positions himself at the bottom of a slope. This protects him from long-range direct fire weapons and forces the attacker to trickle into the kill zone. Wellington used it to great effect against the French in Spain. 
The Königsberg had just begun a deployment to East African waters in summer 1914. The British intended to seize the entire coast in the event of hostilities, but she managed to slip out of her port at Dar es Salaam just before war was declared. 
The war broke out between the supporters of two rival claimants to the Polish throne: Louis XV of France supported his father-in-law Stanislas Leszczynski, elected king by the Polish nobles, while the Austrians, Russians, Prussians, and Saxons supported August III. 
