The disaster in Sicily shook the battered foundations that supported the Athenian hegemony, whose splendor languished as the Peloponnesian War progressed. The debacle of Alcibiades and his companions It was not one more defeat in this exhausting armed conflict, but a definitive turning point in the
The war in Vietnam has been nicknamed the dirty war, as if there had ever been a clean war in history. However, in Vietnam it was the nature of the struggle – guerilla warfare – that made it a hard, savage struggle from the start, beyond the rules of war. Both sides, as almost always happens in a
The FR-F1 (Fusil à Répétition model F1) is a French sniper rifle, in service from 1966 to 1989. History The FR-F1 was the first French rifle designed for snipers. In 1964, General Ailleret instructed the General Staff of the Army to create a precision rifle. The preliminary studies are entrusted t
At the beginning of the 20th century, Greek politicians still They continued to curse the presence of the Almogavars, six centuries before, in Greek lands. Possibly forgetting that they were called upon by themselves, to shake off the Turks in the darkest hours of the Byzantine Empire. Neither savio