We devote the special this time to our occasional series on airpower. We analyse airpower\u2019s coming of age in the context of the military revolution of 1918, when a new kind of combined-arms tactics based on machines, firepower, and infiltration ended trench-war stalemate and restored a war of movement.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
This became the basis of tactics through the rest of the 20th century. The Hundred Days Offensive of 1918 has more in common with the Blitzkrieg operations of 1940 than with either the Battle of the Marne in 1914 or the Battle of the Somme in 1916. Airpower was an increasingly important part of this transformation in war.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Two very different aspects of the Second World War are covered \u2013 in Andrew Chatterton\u2019s report on the latest research on Britain\u2019s secret resistance forces, and in John Sweetman\u2019s analysis of the Fleet Air Arm attacks on the Tirpitz in 1944.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Earlier periods are represented in Edmund West\u2019s article on the Swiss in the Late Middle Ages \u2013 peasant pikemen who evolved into a Renaissance military elite \u2013 and in Patrick Mercer\u2019s latest regiment feature, where his focus is the 9th (East Norfolk) Regiment of Foot in the little-remembered Walcheren Campaign of 1809.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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– Sink the Tirpitz! The fight to destroy Hitler\u2019s battleship
– The Swiss: a late medieval military elite
– Britain\u2019s secret World War II resistance plans: the Auxiliary Units
– The Walcheren Expedition, 1809<\/p>\n