War Tactics Enthusiast Gifts

"I think we're on the cusp of a breakthrough here!"

One More River to Cross. How the Last German got back across the Yser.

"Stop playing around and put it back in you knapsack"

You Are Here - Uncle Sam's Exit Strategy

Putin and Zelensky

'General, please hire large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny.'

Ernesto Valverde Tejedor

'Blimey, boss - that's a bit revolutionary, isn't it?'

"The British are coming. Just sayin'."

"What do you suppose Ken Burns will have to say about all this in 30 years?"

'Steady,...not yet,...hold your positions.'

'This paintball war has really spun out of control.'

Military history

01/08/45

"I said it was time to send in the DRAGOONS!"

"The Chilcot inquiry? No, this is the inquiry into what happened to the Chilcot inquiry."

Mr Punch's Design for A Statue to Miss Nightingale

Afghanistan 2001 and 2021

'I think this is a bit over the top.'

Next Terrifying Military Threats

Brads a Peloponnesian War renactor.

What's in a Terrorist Name?

The Trench-Sealer

Stale Ostrich Egg Throwers

'Where was I on the night of the 7th of August? I was home washing my hair.'

I'm watching "Untold History of the United States" on Netflix. Is it true it was actually the Soviet Union that won World War II? … and is it true Japan was trying to surrender because the USSR had just entered the war against them, but we nuked them anyway just to show Russia who was boss? And is it true Truman single-handedly started the cold war and the arms race by reneging on deals Roosevelt and Churchill had struck with Stalin and then threatening to nuke the USSR? History's interesting no

'Change - yes, but is now really the moment to be discussing change?'

December 17, 1903: We miraculously devise a craft that can transport human beings though the sky. December 18 1903: We figure out how to use said craft to kill people.

"This is a much better war then the war to end all wars."

Another Shooting

Repurposed Porpise: US Navy

The True Reason of War. A Little Frontier Incident in Alsace, July 1914.

On the Brink of War with Russia-British Fleet Despatched

"Damn it! Ask something on the Franco-Prussian War!"

Julen Lopetegui Agote