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It is worth noting that the archives on Afghanistan/Iraq are not open yet.Under the 20yr rule 2001/2002 documents will be available in 2022: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/our-role/transparency/20-year-rule/Inevitably, then, most
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Isn't it about time that Anglosphere historians stopped re-telling the history of the Second World War from the anglophone perspective?We need to get into the German archives and start telling
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A thread on S.L.A. Marshall & the Ratio of Fire.Marshall is controversial.His central claim is that only 25% of soldiers in the line fired their weapons.Several military historians have disputed
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The M1 Garand's design history had significant impact on the structure of post-SWW small arms discussions.A thread on Colonel René Studler, American attitudes towards small arms & one of the
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People who haven't studied guns tend to assume that the evolution of small arms towards an assault rifle was in someway inevitable.I'm here to say that this doesn't follow.In this
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So I said that I'd pick up the story of Brigadier Barlow in a subsequent thread.Alongside Colonel René Studler of the US Ordnance Corps, Brigader Barlow was instrumental in the
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A thread on the Armament Design Establishment (SA).If we're going to talk post-war small arms & NATO small arms and ammunition standardisation then we also have to talk about the
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Before I write on engineers we must do some conceptual ground clearing.This is important because my gun threads have led to several questions that have a whiff of determinism about
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A thread outlining my thoughts on Second World War tactics.For me tactics only makes sense when looked at as a socio-technical system. This thread reflects that way of thinking.Again I'll
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Manufacturing enough small arms to supply British & Commonwealth forces during the SWW was a real challenge. Small Arms Factories sprang up across the country beyond RSAF Enfield.1/Source https://royalarmouries.org/projects-and-associat
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In the last two threads the focus has been more on the tech than the soldier.But what about the man (& in the SWW it was men)?In this thread I
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Ok so we've done machine guns.So how about sub-machine guns? What was the AORG view on this.Here we get into MP40 versus Sten discussions...1/ The important thing to note here
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