Warfare – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:45:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://brewminate.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cropped-BrewBLogo01-32x32.jpg Warfare – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com 32 32 Arms and Empires: The Trade and Commerce of Weapons in the Ancient World https://brewminate.com/arms-and-empires-the-trade-and-commerce-of-weapons-in-the-ancient-world/ Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:45:03 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=265609 From the furnaces of Noricum to the markets of Alexandria, the trade in weapons bound together the ancient

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]]> History’s Unqualified Leaders and the Catastrophe of Incompetent Military Misrule https://brewminate.com/historys-unqualified-leaders-and-the-catastrophe-of-incompetent-military-misrule/ Mon, 06 Oct 2025 15:06:34 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=264155 The record of Varus, Louis XVI, Nicholas II, and Mussolini demonstrates that the greatest dangers to armies often

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]]> From Sacramentum to Fuhrereid: A History of Military Oaths and Political Allegiance https://brewminate.com/from-sacramentum-to-fuhrereid-a-history-of-military-oaths-and-political-allegiance/ Mon, 29 Sep 2025 14:12:37 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=263740 Whether spoken before the gods of Rome, a medieval lord, a constitutional text, or a dictator, the oath

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]]> The Battle of Waterloo in 1815 and the Literary Response https://brewminate.com/the-battle-of-waterloo-in-1815-and-the-literary-response/ Thu, 18 Sep 2025 21:26:50 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=194627 The history of the Battle of Waterloo, as well as the biographies of the two powerful adversaries who

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]]> Victory in Stone: Art of the Battle of Marathon on the Athenian Acropolis https://brewminate.com/victory-in-stone-art-of-the-battle-of-marathon-on-the-athenian-acropolis/ Thu, 18 Sep 2025 21:17:51 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=207650 They had a keen interest in commemorating the Persian wars. By K.W. ArafatAuthor and Historian To the ancient

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]]> Engines of Empire: The History of Ancient War Chariots https://brewminate.com/engines-of-empire-the-history-of-ancient-war-chariots/ Thu, 18 Sep 2025 14:04:17 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=263085 The war chariot dominated the battlefield, altering the strategies of kings and the fates of empires. Yet its

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]]> From Defense to War: Trump’s Rebranding of the Pentagon and the Shadow It Casts https://brewminate.com/from-defense-to-war-trumps-rebranding-of-the-pentagon-and-the-shadow-it-casts/ Thu, 18 Sep 2025 14:03:39 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=263061 Trump has rebranded America’s military purpose in a way that reflects his own worldview: aggressive, unapologetic, and rooted

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]]> Routiers and the Economy of War: Mercenary Soldiers in the Medieval World https://brewminate.com/routiers-and-the-economy-of-war-mercenary-soldiers-in-the-medieval-world/ Thu, 18 Sep 2025 14:03:03 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=263090 Routiers were indispensable to rulers yet loathed by the people; harbingers of military modernization but reminders of its

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]]> Borders on Edge: NATO Downs Russian Drones and Reinforces Eastern Flank https://brewminate.com/borders-on-edge-nato-downs-russian-drones-and-reinforces-eastern-flank/ Thu, 18 Sep 2025 14:02:32 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=263073 The frontier between NATO and Russia is no longer a line of maps and treaties. It is a

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