8 stories tagged military-history, newest first.
127 points by endorphine | 49 comments
An interactive map and dataset of all 1,709 named land and sea battles fought by the Romans from 753 BCE to 1475 CE, with opponents, results and records.
508 points by decimalenough | 718 comments
A blog post on A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry (ACOUP) by historian Bret Devereaux discussing the war in Iran.
450 points by StefanBatory | 253 comments
A blog essay on A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry explaining why historical archers did not use synchronized volley fire as often depicted in films.
351 points by stmw | 170 comments
HistoryNet article about South Vietnamese Maj. Buang Ly, who landed a Cessna on the USS Midway with his family during the fall of Saigon in 1975.
577 points by napolux | 144 comments
A History Stack Exchange question asking about the origin of a widely shared black-and-white photo of a tank in a lake that became a meme.
410 points by gaws | 85 comments
A blog post on Goldwag's Journal on Civilization presenting visualizations and maps of World War II history.
342 points by freediver | 93 comments
A February 2024 blog post by historian Brett Holman on Airminded, a blog about airpower and British society 1908-1941, titled "A bad day at the office."
717 points by srijan4 | 562 comments
A Mastodon thread by Jason Lefkowitz arguing that the 1988 USS Vincennes shootdown of Iran Air Flight 655 was partly caused by Aegis user interface design failures.