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Military history is a field that studies warfare and its societal impacts, including battle strategies, weaponry progression, and military technology evolution. It's crucial for understanding societal evolution and informing military strategies. Strategists can learn from victories and defeats by analysing past wars to inform future decisions. Military history also reveals societal responses to conflict, guiding efforts to prevent future wars and promote peace. Additionally, it fosters national identity by allowing societies to remember and honour their past. In essence, military history provides valuable insights into the past, present, and human nature.

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V2: The Nazi rocket that launched the space age

The WW2 German V2 rocket was one of the wonder weapons meant to save Germany—it had little strategic effect and did not affect the outcome of WW2.

A Royal Australian Air Force Spitfire from No. 100 Squadron on display at the Warbirds over Scone air show in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales.

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The Myth of Hitler's Military Incompetence: "The First Soldier"

German generals writing after WW2 blamed Hitler for their incompetence leading Western and Russian historians to perpetuate this myth.

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The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme, by John Keegan (1976)

John Keegan's 1976 book The Face of Battle examines what it must have been like to be an ordinary soldier at three famous battles, Agincourt, Waterloo and the WW1 Battle of the Somme.

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Bombing Berlin: The Biggest Wartime Raid on Hitler's Capital

The largest Allied raid on Berlin took place on March 18 1945—shortly before Germany's surrender in May 45; some historians argue the raid was designed to justify the massive cost of the conventional bombing campaign in Europe.

The last remaining First World War German A7V tank, Panzerkampfwagen 506, 'Mephisto' and the battle damage it absorbed during the First World War at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.

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Battle of Tannenberg

The WW1 German victory over The Soviet Union (Russian) in the Battle of Tannenberg weakened Russia leading to Russia's eventual defeat in 1918.

The mud encrusted boots of a Royal Australian Navy Sailor after completing the removal of fallen and dangerous trees from Traralgon Creek Road, Koornalla, Victoria.

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Invasion of Poland, Fall 1939

Prior to 1939 Hitler played brinksmanship with the Allies, adding adjacent areas with German-speaking populations to Germany—and in 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union (Russia) invaded and carved up Poland between them.

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Australia's Gallipoli Campaign

On 25th April 1915 the ANZACs landed on the beach at Gallipoli.

An Australian Army soldier stands in front of the Cenotaph in London during the Anzac Day 2022 wreath-laying ceremony.

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Gallipoli Campaign 1915

The battles fought on the beaches of Gallipoli, Turkey, in 1915 brought the new Australian nation together and established the military reputation of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC).

An Australian Government-donated Bushmaster protected mobility vehicle with 'United with Ukraine' and the Ukraine flag painted on its side stands at a European airport after being unloaded from a Royal Australian Air Force C-17A Globemaster III aircraft.

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Why Stalin Starved Ukraine

Putin is following the example of Stalin in systematically setting out to destroy Ukrainian nationalism and even the idea of Ukraine by controlling and rewriting history.

A Soviet T-72 main battle tank on display at the Australian Armour and Artillery Museum in Cairns.

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How the Soviet Union's collapse explains the current Russia-Ukraine tension

Putin claimed that the Soviet Union's collapse was the "greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century "—implying that Ukraine and Russia are one country and should not be separated.