OVERLORD'S BLOG

The US equipment procurement system is complex and impenetrable to an outsider. On at least one occasion it has been the subject for a c...

The QF 4.5in howitzer had been designed off the back of the British experience in the Second Boer War, and by 1909 was entering service with...

Just after 0300, on the morning of the 17th of January 1991 Lieutenant Zuhair Dawood, of the Iraqi Air Force, was on duty. The day previousl...

In August 1944 a small group of Poles were surrounded in an area just two kilometres across, cut off and running out of ammunition they were...

Seek, Strike and Destroy was the motto and tactical doctrine of the US tank destroyer battalions. The US had come up with a silly idea that ...

As some of you will have seen over on my Facebook page, I've been moving house and it's not been going well . But I have gotten some...

Well, as warned, last week the house move fun and games has been quite substantial. Could it go wrong? Then yes it has! My car broke down la...

Light has long been used as a weapon. Some of the first experiments were in the form of searchlights used as dazzle weapons at night. The Br...