British Army

allowed tanks of this period to grow larger. Aspects of gun technology changed significantly as well, with advances in shell design and aiming technology. During the Cold War, the main battle tank concept arose and became a key component of modern armies.[4] In the 21st century, with the increasing role of asymmetrical warfare and the end of the Cold War, that also contributed to the increase of cost-effective Russian anti-tank weapons worldwide, the importance of tanks has waned. Modern tanks…

1297. The battle was fought between an English army commanded by John de Warenne and a rebel Scottish army jointly commanded by Andrew Moray and William Wallace, near the beginning of the First War of Scottish Independence. The English army greatly outnumbered the Scottish and possessed superior equipment. However, the Scottish carried the day, due to superior use of terrain and tactics. Wallace and Moray devised a plan to lure the English army over a narrow bridge, which served a choke…

When one watches The Patriot and The Alamo, one can note a common theme in the sense that these people joined revolutions because they felt a personal connection in defending their beliefs and homeland. Not only were they working to protect their families, but they also became empowered by the sense of community as they banded together to fight for the same causes. In both films, these people were dissatisfied with the current status of their government, and they assembled militias in an attempt…

thought about war they associated male with war. Time to time women even disguised themselves as men to serve in combat. In the first World War Russia used one all-female combat unit, then in the second World War, hundreds and thousands of German and British women served in combat but as roles in anti-craft units. They put women in these positions because they were not at risk of being captured. A large scale of women were used near the front as medical staff and political officers in the Soviet…

The difficulties the infantry found in taking enemy positions without accurate and heavy artillery support. The uncritical atmosphere that existed at the First Army Headquarters, which were mostly officers who knew Haig and his methods, never questioned or challenged his opinions. Haig did not spend a great deal of time before the war to analysis the use of artillery. He believed that artillery was there to assist…

Valley Forge: Would You Quit? Fights turn into battles, and battles turn into wars. This is exactly why I am here at Valley Forge during the American Revolution of 1777 and 1778 (Roden 141). My enlistment is almost up and I need to make a decision to a question that might determine whether I live or die: should I stay at Valley Forge, or leave. Everyone is trying to tell me to leave before I die, but I have already made up my mind.I have decided to stay and fight for my soon-to-be country…

Jennifer Quayle was born on August 24th 1981 and has served a fruitful 16.5 years in the Army. She has two siblings: her older sister Kelly and her brother Rob who served in the Marine Corps and is now an architect. She also has a 15-year-old daughter named Kyilee and a 6-year-old son named Kasen. Her husband David has helped her raise their family even through a long deployment in Iraq. Mrs. Quayle knew she wanted to be in the military since 4th grade. She received a picture in the mail of…

The first scene of Gallipoli the film begins with a teenage boy timing his sprint speed on a dirt and gravel track in Australia around 8 months after the start of WWI, the boy would become known as Archie. Archie wants to enlist for the army and since he can ride, he hopes to enter the Light Horse although he is underage for the military entirely. One day when Archie gets into a heated discrepancy with a man by the name of Les McCann a race is organized between the two, with McCann on horseback…

Times have been hard at home since the start of the war that I have begun a journal. In hopes to boost my spirits during this eerie period. “Ration cards were issued” (WWI Food Shortages) this past month to help with war efforts. On my way to the slaughterhouse where I picked up mother’s rations for the week I could not escape from the signs. Propaganda mounted the walls of every street side building trying to persuade young men to enter the war. Smothered all over the signs with the phrase…

War II and a man shriveled into a paranoid child. When he joined the army, he was a joke to both the other side and his own during the war: scrawny, small, and weak. Most men fighting the war weren’t actually men, they were young men thrown into a war started by old men. Through this light Vonnegut shows how he viewed the war, “a German measured Billy’s upper arm with his thumb and forefinger, asked a companion what sort of army would send a weakling like that to the front. They looked at the…