Article by Nick Jacobellis The first time I trained with a Ruger Mini 14 was while serving as a U.S. Customs Patrol Officer back in the 1980s. When I transferred from New York City to Miami, during The Miami Vice Era of the Drug War, I was issued a Colt …
Review by Martin Koenigsberg When I saw this book at the Thrift Store (Charity Shop), I thought it would help me understand the present Lebanon situation (this review is written in October ’24 with an Israeli incursion happening there now) and improve my understanding of the Israeli Army. It is a memoir of a young …
Review by Martin Koenigsberg With its unification as recent as 1871, Italy was a real latecomer to the Colonial impulse. By the time they decided to prey on Indigenous Peoples, only Libya was left on the North African coast, and the Horn of Africa – Ethiopia, Somalia and Eritrea remained unconquered by Europeans. At this …
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Review by Martin Koenigsberg When this book came out in 1968, WWII had only been over for 23 years. The Aircraft Carrier had been around as a concept about 23 years old when the War was fought too, so this was a New Weapon in WWII and in the Cold War that followed. Donald Macintyre, …
Review By Martin Koenigsberg This biography of Mad Mike Calvert is written by a Veteran of the Asian campaigns, and a big fan of the most famous of Orde Wingate’s disciples. David Rooney was a Veteran and a Scholar of WWII, as well as a Sandhurst Lecturer and here he presents Calvert as a misunderstood …
Review by Martin Koenigsberg When the RAF finally got the Mosquito over to the India/Burma theatre, it was a significant upgrade over the Beaufighter it replaced and supplanted as a two engine Intruder in WWII. The Intruder mission is basically to travel all along the enemy’s line of communications and wreck shop. The Mosquito, faster …
Review by Martin Koenigsberg Early in the Cold War, Anti Aircraft suppression had to be done with ECM- jamming- or full missions dedicated to flak suppression. Radars were things to be noted and avoided, or whole side missions designed to destroy them were scheduled. Korea led to Vietnam- the whole time strategic requirements had to …
Review by Martin Koenigsberg By the time we get to Volume 12 of the Pacific Profiles series, the Allies are totally ascendant. 1945 brings the P-51 and F-6 Mustang to the Pacific War theater, fresh of its role in ending the Luftwaffe. Kenney’s Fifth Air Force in the South Pacific would work up to ten …
Review by Martin Koenigsberg The American Plan for defeating Japan in the Pacific was simple and complex at the same time. American forces would cross the pacific, in large jumps and small until it was possible to bombard the Japanese Home islands from the Air and reduce their capacity to make war. by the time …
Review by Martin Koenigsberg Gotta say i really liked this edition of the Casemate Illustrated series. Simon Forty is an author with a lot of Military History experience, and he takes us through the Soviet War effort at the Infantry level. In the Casemate Illustrated style, the book is absolutely littered with Colour Photos of …
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