This article provides a sobering account by a military historian Paul Fussell—who served in WW2 as an infantry officer—of what war is really like.

In 1950 the Soviet (Russian)and China backed North Korea invaded the US-backed South Korea; after see-saving backwards and forwards, the war ended in a territorial stalemate, roughly where the conflict began.

In the Battle of Britain, the UK employed an integrated air defence system to deny Nazi Germany air superiority over the English Channel and prevented Germany from invading the UK.