Now as historianIan Heathnoted that some of the themes were further divided or even expanded, based on the political and military scenario of the period – which, in turn, had an effect on the manpower of the province. Moreover, the Byzantine realm also had strategic frontier themes, known...
After six years in the Army, Tracey worked as a research historian and collections manager at the Airborne & Special Operations Museum. In 2010, he became the PSYOP branch historian for SOCOM. Here are the two distinguished members of the Civil Affairs Regiment: Retired Lt. Col. Truman Smith...
Weigley, a prominent military historian, "The main effect of industrialism seems to have been to reduce inclination and time for amateur soldiering, and thus to weaken the militia institutions inherited from the rural past." One rejuvenating factor for the militia during this time, however, was ...
More generally, historian Collins describes the Bahr watershed as follows: 49 In 1978, the Sudanese Ministry of Agriculture summarized the Abyei region's habitation as follows: "Ngok Dinka live in this area the year round; Missiriya Humr during the dry season. Bahr El-Ghazal and Upper Nile...
As a historian who also is a military chaplain who has seen war I struggle with what Sager said. Thus when I read military history, study and write about particular battles or engagements, or conduct staff rides as like the Gettysburg trip that we are embarking on, the human cost is alway...
veterans turning their backs to the Prime Minister in a deviant attempt to force Japan to acknowledge its ill-treatment of alliedPOW’s during World War 2. Another recent book by film historian and documentarist Jeffrey Ruoff and modern Japan historian Kenneth Ruoff, entitledThe Emperor’s Naked...
The Persian Immortals were the heavy infantry for the Persian army, their name stemmed from the fact that if one of the Immortals was to fall in battle, they would be instantly replaced by another warrior. The name itself was coined by Herodotus, the Greek Historian and the Immortals themselv...
Historian Max Engman has compared the Jäger officers to similar voluntary nationalist warriors of the same period in Poland and Czechoslovakia and noticed with all of them, that men who once had taken up arms against the legal authorities had a low threshold for political intrigue-making to ...
Rank was rarely displayed on fatigues, though NCO stripes were sometimes inked onto HBT sleeves. According to Capt Edmund G.Love, a 27th Division historian, this formation at one time had coded unit and rank symbols stencilled on the rear of the HBT combat uniform in black - a system copie...
Furthermore, the historian Kenneth Scott Latourette noted that even late into the third century: ...perhaps most of the early Christians had conscientious scruples against military service (Latourette K.S. A History of Christianity, Volume 1, Beginnings to 1500. Harper, San Francisco, 1975, p...