Kursk: The Battle that Changed Everything It is 75 years since the Battle of Kursk, the largest tank battle in history. More than 3,000,000 men and 8,000 tanks met, 400 miles south of Moscow. Yet today, once again, German tanks are facing Russian tanks, just a few hundred miles from the site of that…
Category: Soviet Military history
Fast and Furious: The Philosophy and Mechanics of the Blitzkrieg Tactic
Fast and Furious: The Philosophy and Mechanics of the Blitzkrieg Tactic It’s the dawn of World War II, and the old ways of fighting aren’t cutting it anymore. Soldiers huddled in trenches, days turning into weeks with little progress—it’s a stalemate that no one wants to repeat. Enter the Blitzkrieg tactic, a plan that’s…
Know Your WW2 History: German-Soviet Alliance – How the Soviet Union Enabled Hitler’s Conquests
German-Soviet Alliance: How Soviet Union Enabled Hitler’s Conquests For all you fellow amateur military historians out there, I highly recommend you bookmark the resources for this article. They make for some excellent reading by themselves: The Buildup of the German War Economy: The Importance of the Nazi-Soviet Economic Agreements of 1939 and 1940 Historian…
Solzhenitsyn’s Choice
H/T American Partisan Solzhenitsyn’s Choice What is Solzhenitsyn’s choice? It is a personal decision to either go unresistingly when arrested by a tyrannical government or violently resist, probably at the risk of your life. In other words, do you love freedom so much that you are willing to die rather than surrender…
Rifle Corner: Three Civilian Flavors of the SVD Dragunov Sniper Rifle
The first video goes into detail on Soviet military sniper tactics during the Cold War and how various models of the rifle came into existence. The Second video expounds on the pro’s and con’s (mostly con’s) of the Romanian PSL, perhaps the most commercially abundant version of the Dragunov ONCE available here in…
Why Russian Tanks Explode When Hit
Know Your Enemy: The Russian BTR
H/T Mason Dixon Survivalist Association Not to be confused with the Russian BMP-3 Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV).
The Minuteman’s Guide to Countering Armored Vehicles *(For Educational Purposes Only)*
The Minuteman’s Guide to Countering Armored Vehicles Since the first tanks and armored cars appeared on the battlefields of WWI Europe, infantrymen have been forced to find ways to deal with them. The modern minuteman is no different, and any prolonged civil conflict in the United States is bound to see armored vehicles used…
Maneuver Warfare
Maneuver Warfare Worthwhile article that dovetails WW2 Military History with the current events in Ukraine. Highly Recommend you download this book to a flash drive and keep for future reference.
Anti-Communist Book of the Month
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich While you are here it would not hurt to re-read one of the best articles Revolver has written in the past few years, Are You Ready to be an American Kulak?