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402 War by Other Means
Carl von Clausewitz the military theorist and historian wrote "War is merely a continuation of politics by other means", but can we wage war with out actually going to war? Do huge armies have to face one another for us to achieve our politic ends?? File: mp3 Dur: 14min...

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[ Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:41:00 GMT ]


402 War by Other Means
Carl von Clausewitz the military theorist and historian wrote "War is merely a continuation of politics by other means", but can we wage war with out actually going to war? Do huge armies have to face one another for us to achieve our politic ends?? File: mp3 Dur: 14min...

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[ Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:41:00 GMT ]


401 The Battle of Kohima
Kohima is the capital of the Indian state of Nagaland, now in Bangladesh, high in the mountainous Naga hills. It was here the Imperial Japanese army would suffer its largest defeat of WWII thus far. The fighting was savage and proved to be a turning point for the British 14th army. It would gain a new confidence and prove its commander Bill Slim's new tactics to be a success. Mountbatten, Commander in Chief in South East Asia would describe it as: âprobably one of the greatest battles in history...

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[ Sun, 30 Dec 2007 15:41:00 GMT ]


401 The Battle of Kohima
Kohima is the capital of the Indian state of Nagaland, now in Bangladesh, high in the mountainous Naga hills. It was here the Imperial Japanese army would suffer its largest defeat of WWII thus far. The fighting was savage and proved to be a turning point for the British 14th army. It would gain a new confidence and prove its commander Bill Slim's new tactics to be a success. Mountbatten, Commander in Chief in South East Asia would describe it as: âprobably one of the greatest battles in histor...

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[ Sun, 30 Dec 2007 15:41:00 GMT ]


310 Tank part 1
Throughout history armies have looked to protect themselves whilst advancing. The greek hoplites developed the phalanx while the Romans used the testudo (or tortoise) whereby their interlocking shields could minimise the effects of the enemies' long-range offensive weapons. With the coming of the gun powder age nothing could stop a bullet, but the rate of fire was only limited. The first machine guns changed this, however. Thousands of rounds could be spewed forth slowing an enemy's advance, bu...

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[ Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:27:00 GMT ]


309 The Battle of Balaclava
In 1854 war broke out between Russia and the Ottoman Empire with Britain and France throwing there hat in with the Turks. Landing in the Crimea British and French defeated the Russians at Alma, driving them back and laid siege to Sevastopol, home of the Tsar's Black Sea Fleet. The French took up positions at Kamiesh whilst the British dug in at Balaclava... The following battle is the "boys own" stuff of legend, the "thin red line", the charge of the heavy brigade and the disastrous charge of t...

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[ Sun, 4 Nov 2007 22:49:00 GMT ]


308 The SS
The SS was established in 1925 as Hitlers personal bodyguard, a latter-day "Praetorian guard". SS members were selected on principles of racial purity and absolute loyalty to the Nazi party. By the end of the second world war they had fought in every major battle and become feared for their fanaticism and loathed for their cruelty. It was the SS that ran the concentrations camps, organised death squads and were associated with many other atrocities. File: MP3 Dur: 14min...

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[ Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:00:00 GMT ]


308 The SS
The SS was established in 1925 as Hitlers personal bodyguard, a latter-day "Praetorian guard". SS members were selected on principles of racial purity and absolute loyalty to the Nazi party. By the end of the second world war they had fought in every major battle and become feared for their fanaticism and loathed for their cruelty. It was the SS that ran the concentrations camps, organised death squads and were associated with many other atrocities. File: MP3 Dur: 14min...

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[ Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:00:00 GMT ]


307 Assault from the Sea â The Story of Amphibious Warfare
A few miles or so out to sea, an armada of warships is revealed by the lifting dawn mist. Fleets of landing craft battle their way through the surf to grind their way onto the beaches. Ramps slam down, boots tramp down metal and splash into water. The desperate race across the beach begins... Dur: 25min File: AAC...

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[ Mon, 8 Oct 2007 20:45:00 GMT ]


306 William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman is a controversial figure. The second most famous of the Union Commanders in the American Civil War he never won a major victory, yet it was his "march to the sea" splitting the confederacy and depriving it of supplies which contributed so much to the Northern victory. His scorched earth policy and the burning of Atlanta has led him to still be despised in Georgia for the devastation he caused, Sherman bluntly commented "If the people of Georgia raise a howl against my b...

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[ Sat, 22 Sep 2007 11:00:00 GMT ]


305 The Victoria Cross
The Victoria Cross is the highest medal of gallantry awarded by the British Armed forces, it is awarded irrespective of rank or service and even to civilians under military command. Cast from captured Russian cannons from the Crimean war this unassuming medal is only 41mm high by 36mm wide bearing a crown surmounted by a lion, and the inscription FOR VALOUR. it has only ever been awarded to just over one thousand three hundred and fifty individuals. Dur: 12min File: AAC...

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[ Fri, 7 Sep 2007 11:00:00 GMT ]


304 The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
In 9AD Publius Quinctilius Varus, the Roman Governor of Germania, marched over the Rhine to spend the summer at advanced posts far inside the recently conquered province. On his return a coalition of Germanic tribesmen, led by Arminius attacked and decimated the Romans, the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth legions would never be raised again and their commander, Varus, committed suicide. The result of the battle was that ultimately Germania remained independent and was never included in th...

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[ Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:00:00 GMT ]


303 Arnhem - A Bridge To Far
Operation Market Garden was the largest airborne assault in history. Planned as the spearhead of a massive thrust into Holland, securing bridges along a thin sixty mile corridor through which the armoured columns of XXX corps would charge through relieving the parachutists as they went, and hopefully catching what they thought would be weak German resistance off guard, before finally capturing the Rhine crossing at Arnhem. The operation would lead Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick "Boy" Browning,...

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[ Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:00:00 GMT ]


302 The Maxim Gun
The American born inventor Hiram Maxim whilst visiting the Paris Electrical Exhibition was told: "If you wanted to make a lot of money, invent something that will enable these Europeans to cut each other's throats with greater facility." His solution was the Maxim gun, the first self powered machine gun. Adopted by the British army in 1891 by 1905 it was in use with nineteen different armies and twenty one navies. With its invention war changed forever, and would leave it's indelible mark on th...

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[ Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:00:00 GMT ]


301 The Peninsular War
By the year 1808 France had achieved domination over the great majority of continental Europe. Britain stood alone. In 1806 Napoleon declared the Continental Blockade, forbidding British imports to Europe, Portugal remained neutral tring to avoid the ultimatum. Napoleon needed to close Portugal, and gain tighter control over Spain since its ports were not entirely closed to British goods... Dur: 25min 30sec File: AAC...

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[ Sun, 15 Jul 2007 21:15:00 GMT ]


210 The Bismarck
The Bismarck sailed in May 1941, on its first and only mission codenamed RheinÃbung, its mission to break into the Atlantic and harass British shipping bringing in food and other essential materials. Five days after sailing into the Atlantic it had sunk the battle-cruiser HMS Hood, flagship and pride of the British Royal Navy and soon after was itself crippled and scuttled... Dur: 17min 30sec File Format: AAC...

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[ Fri, 1 Jun 2007 10:00:00 GMT ]


209 Samurai
The Samurai warrior has reached mythological status through modern films, television and written popular fiction. Weilding there Katana swords they lop of heads and slice through opponents with no emotion and yet held in check by there code "Bushido", they hold life and death of ordinary people at there whim. But where did they come from and is this even close to the truth? Dur: 13min File Format: AAC...

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[ Fri, 18 May 2007 10:15:00 GMT ]


208 Total War
With industrialisation the nature of war changed, for an army to function it needed not just men but munitions, these had to come from factories. In turn as the factory became more important to the war effort it to became a target, as did those who worked in it. By the mid nineteenth century we had seen the birth of Total War, where every resource a country can muster is engaged and put to work to win the war. Dur: 13min File Format: AAC...

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[ Sun, 6 May 2007 18:41:00 GMT ]


207 The Macedonians and Alexander
Alexander the Great is one of the greatest military commanders to have ever lived, conquering much of the known world by the time he was 30. But he could not have managed this alone, his Macedonian countrymen were the back bone to his success, who were they and why under Alexander did they become so formidable a force? Dur: 12min File Format: AAC...

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[ Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:00:00 GMT ]


206 The Gurkhas
The Gurkha's have been fighting in the British army for over two hundred years, recruited from Nepal these fearsome warriors still carry their traditional 18-inch long curved knife known as the kukri into battle. Such is there fearsome reputation that during the Falklands war when the Argentinian troops heard they were about to be attacked on Mount William by the Gurkha's, nearly a whole battalion fled without firing a shot! Dur: 10min File Format: AAC...

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[ Sat, 7 Apr 2007 05:00:00 GMT ]


205 Achtung Panzer
AchtungPanzer is one of the most important military books of the twentieth century. Written by the German Heinz Guderian and published in 1937 it set out his theories on modern mechanized warfare, ideas of speed, tank requirements, use of aircraft and supply. It was a complete manual for Hitlers forth coming Blitzkrieg... Dur: 11min File Format: AAC...

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[ Sat, 24 Mar 2007 16:45:00 GMT ]


204 "Stonewall" Jackson
"Stonewall" Jackson was one of the most outstanding commanders of the American Civil. In many ways his battles would be a precursor to the modern methods of the mid twentieth century fighting where bold, swift, highly aggressive actions would prove so successful to the early German Blitzkrieg. Dur: 18min File Format: AAC...

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[ Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:45:00 GMT ]


203 The Battle of Marathon
The battle of Marathon has become a defining moment in world history where the fledgling Greek city states found a new confidence to defend themselves. The Persians had not been defeated on land for many decades and although not a conclusive victory it did show the Persians to be vulnerable... Dur: 11min File Format: AAC...

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[ Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:00:00 GMT ]


202 Operation Jubilee - The Battle of Dieppe
On the morning of the 19th of August 1942 over 6,000 infantrymen, mainly Canadian, supported by large British naval and air contingents attacked the French port of Dieppe. By the end of the day 4,384 of the 6,086 men who made it ashore were either killed, wounded, or captured. Dur: 14min File Format: AAC...

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[ Fri, 9 Feb 2007 10:22:00 GMT ]


201 The Battle of Agincourt
In 1415on a rain soaked field in France an English King with his tired, hungry and sick army faced at least three times their number of experienced, well-armed and armoured Frenchmen. Yet even with the odds heavily stacked in their favour by the end of the day the French had suffered a catastrophic defeat on the field of Agincourt... Dur: 10min File Format: AAC...

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[ Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:54:00 GMT ]


10 The Battle of Alesia
In the winter of 54-53BC, the tribes of Gaul, which Julius Caesar had pacified over the previous few years, suddenly revolted destroying the Fourteenth legion, a quarter of the Roman strength in the region. Julius Caesar quickly march back to face the Gauls... Dur: 13min File Format: AAC...

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[ Sat, 16 Dec 2006 20:43:00 GMT ]


10 The Battle of Alesia
In the winter of 54-53BC, the tribes of Gaul, which Julius Caesar had pacified over the previous few years, suddenly revolted destroying the Fourteenth legion, a quarter of the Roman strength in the region. Julius Caesar quickly march back to face the Gauls... Dur: 13min File Format: AAC...

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[ Sat, 16 Dec 2006 20:43:00 GMT ]


09 Marshal Zhukov - part 2
Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov was Russia's most successful commander of the second World War, in the Russian Army there was a saying "where Zhukov is, there is victory"... Part 2. Dur: 16min File Format: AAC...

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[ Fri, 1 Dec 2006 20:56:00 GMT ]


09 Marshal Zhukov - part 2
Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov was Russia's most successful commander of the second World War, in the Russian Army there was a saying "where Zhukov is, there is victory"... Part 2. Dur: 16min File Format: AAC...

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[ Fri, 1 Dec 2006 20:56:00 GMT ]


08 Marshal Zhukov - part 1
Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov was Russia's most successful commander of the second World War, in the Russian Army there was a saying "where Zhukov is, there is victory". Part 1...

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[ Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:03:00 GMT ]

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