Artillery battery

11,000 B.C. Johnathan Steele noted in the Guardian, Aleppo’s ancient citadel, a UNESCO site, which sits atop the city like a crown, “Has the gem distinction of being the world’s only ancient fortress that is back in action as a garrison and artillery battery.” (The Guardian 2015) The Drylands Research Institute agreed to give crops to the rebels, allowing the research farm to go fallow. ICARDA (The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas) in Aleppo, Syria arranged with…

Completely out-of-touch with his people, he fiddled the figures to produce a turnout for Saigon of over 650,000 when only around 425,000 were registered. This fiddling of elections showed what the Americans’ real priorities were – rather than focusing on installing democracy, they were focusing on not installing communism. In an almost entirely Buddhist country, Diêm was a devout Roman Catholic, one who favoured the rich landowners over the peasants – a mistake that, combined with his…

There have been many wars and many technological innovations throughout the course of recorded history. None have more bloody than the pair of worldwide wars that afflicted the global in the first fifty years of the twentieth century. This was a worldwide conflict with more nations, people, and money involved than ever before. It seems in course of humanity necessity has driven innovation. In turn innovations with their incremental steps give birth to new technology that ultimately change the…

A ditch, deep enough to hide the the base of the walls and protect them from enemy cannons, surrounded the entire fortress. A small trench filled with water and with a wooden palisade in the inner side ran along the bottom of the ditch. Reinhard knew that it had a technical name which he had read and forgotten when he was being trained as an officer, but he remembered that it was designed to slowdown the advance of enemy soldiers which were trying to reach the base of the walls. Anyway that…

different exercises. The exercises that are performed are the standing long jump, the seated power throw, the strength deadlift, and the interval aerobic run. When new recruits are planning on joining the Army, alongside the Armed Services Vocational Battery Test (ASVAB), they will be required to do this test as well. The main function of this addition is to prevent the current situation of having soldiers in MOS’ in which they are incapable of doing. If the soldier is capable of achieving…

Death, destruction, and mayhem are just a few of the vestiges of modern war present throughout the United State Civil War. This conflict was based on industrialization moving to the boundaries of total war. The American Civil War is the first modern war due to innovation in technology. This is because of advances in weaponry, logistic, and communications. The industrial Revolution allowed for the greatest level of production in human history, which in turn led to the greatest level of…

I would like to pursue a career in the field of combat operations, artillery. Some careers available in this field are Special Forces and Missile Crewmember. My training would be classroom instruction and field training. The field training would be for an example, ammunition handling procedures and explosives handling and…

June 28th, 1914 On June 28th, 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand was travelling in Sarejevo, Bosnia to observe the imperial armed forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina. While touring the city a Serbian extremist named Gravrilo Princip killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife. The killing of Archduke Franz Ferdinand set off a chain of events that would lead to the beginning of World War 1 July 28th, 1914 Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia because Ferdinand was killed by a Serbian man August 1st,…

When he worked for Washington during the American Revolutionary War, Hamilton wrote reports on strategies and army restructures. His skill at that led to Washington giving him command of a battery of artillery at the Battle of Yorktown. Hamilton’s troops took over a redoubt, which, when paired with the capture of a second one, resulted in the British surrendering (“Yorktown”). After the war, Hamilton played a pivotal role in the formation of the…

The United States was much more open minded when it came to working with scientists within the country. For example, the government showed this when the Navy worked with Thomas Edison’s battery for the submarine. Despite seeing how it failed, they still chose to partner with Edison in trying to make a suitable battery (Coffey 20). Another way the US government worked with inventors was when they worked with Carl Norton in purchasing the Norton bombsight for bombers in the war. Lastly, working…