On June 25, 1950, the North Korean Army began the invasion of South Korea (Republic of Korea), crossing the 38th parallel. When the United Nations Security Council required military aid from the international community to protect the Republic of Korea, Australia responded by sending two units: the Australian Army’s 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (3 [...]

Recruitment in the Roman Army was a similar process to that in use in some armies today. The applicant was ordered to appear before a board of examining officers, men experienced in the selection of the most suitable fighting material. The ideal was a man six "pes" tall, about 5 ft 10 in, of good [...]

The German Field Army groups had no fixed organization. During the first two years of World War II, there were five army groups: two (Nord and Sud) for the Polish campaign, and three more (A-B-C) for the Western campaigns. Each Army Group (Heeresgruppe) was composed of two or three armies with perhaps 400,000 men. There [...]

The German Army reconnaissance units, which were partly motorized, with the golden yellow service arm color, were a remarkably mixed group. They did not exist in peacetime and were formed only upon mobilization in 1939, out of the thirteen cavalry regiments that were subordinated to the army corps at that time. At the end of [...]

In the 13th century, the Mongol horsemen of the Asian steppe were some of most effective warriors in the world in those days. Under the leadership of Genghis Khan and his successors, they created an empire that stretched from China and Korea to the eastern edge of Europe. Totally without humane sentiment, the Mongols had [...]

The core of feudal armies was formed by mounted men-at-arms—not all of them knights. The ability to fight on horseback, as opposed to merely arriving by horse on the battlefield or engaging with the enemy at bow-shot distance, had been hugely enhanced in the 8th century with the arrival in Europe of the stirrup, which [...]