Past and Present of Warfare
Month: March 2023
Not soon after the Kingdom of Yugoslavia joined the Axis, government was overthrown. Led by the Communist Party, on 27th March 1941. the people went to the streets, shouting paroles "Bolje grob nego rob! Bolje rat nego pakt!" ("Better grave than the slave! Better combat than the compact!"). But as usual in the Marxist historiography, … Continue reading Military Coup in Yugoslavia 27 March 1941
Bombing of Tokyo in 1945. is given far less attention than some objectively less deadly attacks (London Blitz, attack on Pearl Harbor, or bombing of Hiroshima or Nagasaki). Yet it is important to understand why it happened, how it was so deadly, and why the memory of the attack is so negligible. While conventional bombardment … Continue reading Firebombing of Tokyo 10th March 1945
Bleeding around Guadalcanal continued. Neither side could gather enough strength to push back the other. Attack was followed by counterattack, which was followed up by a counter-counterattack. While individual battles could be one-sided indeed, there was no real result, only mounting losses. Both sides created imaginative new surprises for the enemy, and the fate toyed … Continue reading Pacific War 17 – Japan’s Last Victory
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