At 7:24pm on this day in 1980, B Squadron of 22 SAS stormed the Iranian embassy in London, ending a six-day siege. At the time of the assault, there were twenty-one hostages and six terrorists in the embassy.

One hostage and five terrorists were killed. Twenty hostages were rescued, and one terrorist was captured and subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment.

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The telegraph transformed warfare by compressing distance between command and battlefield. ⚡🪖

Orders, intelligence, and logistics moved faster than ever, but speed also created new vulnerabilities: interception, overcentralization, and rushed decisions.

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On this day in 1942, British troops invaded Madagascar. The operation proved the usefulness of tank landing ships (LSTs), which were to be widely used in future invasions. It also featured dummy paratroopers, which were more famously used during the invasion of Normandy in 1944.

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Even in 1930 the US Navy's 'war plan' dealt essentially with defence against the least likely possible threat: a Canadian invasion.

— N.A.M. Rogers, The Price of Victory

(Because, you know, rising authoritarianism and militarism in Germany, Japan, and Italy couldn't possibly affect the U.S. of A., right?)

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Just finished: We Were Soldiers Once... and Young
Ia Drang - The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam

[1991]

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New #openaccess publication!

'The Business of War in the Early Modern Baltic Sea Region, 1530–1765' is edited by Jaakko Björklund, Sebastian Schiavone, Steve Murdoch, and Anu Lahtinen. The volume explores the development of the fiscal-military networks and #military markets over three centuries and offers a holistic overview of the business of #war in #NorthernEurope and the #BalticSea region.

The book is available at: https://doi.org/10.33134/HUP-37

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Conventional narrative: during the 1930s, the UK under PMs Baldwin and Chamberlain got complacent and obsessed with reducing military spending while Germany and Japan built their military machines.

Actual stats: the UK built 1M tons of warships from 1928 to 1941, compared to 700K tons by the U.S. and 600M by Japan (Germany's production was almost too low to register).

(from N.A.M. Rogers, The Price of Victory).

So, pace Churchill's rants, the real moral isn't that the allies weren't prepared for #WW2 (remember that the Spitfire and radar were also pre-war innovations, for example). The moral is that spending a lot of money on weapons — during a global depression, no less — didn't prevent war from happening and didn't make the allied generals and admirals any smarter about how to use those expensive weapons. 🫤

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