“Warfare is…the one human activity from which women, with the most insignificant exceptions, have always and …

Unlike some armies, the Israel Defense Force (IDF) does not need to airlift equipment all over the globe. Israel’s wars …

In the decades after the Civil War, the U.S. Army saw little need for specialist Rangers. “Small wars” were …

The French phrase coup de main literally means “a strike of the hand.” In military jargon, it means “an offensive …

Even for aircraft, faster is not always better. Some aircraft have achieved fame because of their exceptional low-speed flight characteristics. …

In 1919, the Versailles Treaty declared, “the manufacture and importation of aircraft, parts of aircraft, engines for aircraft, and parts …

It is a matter of odd historical fact that the last shot of the American Civil War was a blank …

In 1941, Friedrich von Doblhoff (1916-2000) a junior engineer at Wiener Neustädter Flugzeugwerke (Vienna-Neustadt Aircraft Factory, which assembled Bf 109 …

For the German Navy, facing war without its own aircraft carriers, the helicopter seemed promising as an observation platform and …

Hundreds of women served as Soviet combat pilots and flight crew during World War II. Other nations allowed a few …