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In 1944, the war in South Asia reached a critical
Lieutenant General Bill Slim had a cunning plan to unstitch the Japanese defence of Burma in 1945
Since 1940 Japan had been devoid of civilian politicians as the parties had been dissolved by the militaristic Imperial Rule Assistance Association, led by Lt General Hideki Tojo. Over the intervening
SOE IN BURMA
In 1942, the German war machine was at the height of its power. France, the ‘hereditary enemy’, was defeated and occupied. In the Soviet Union, Army Group South was marching inexorably toward the Cauc
The reconquest of Burma was carried out by the 14th Army and 15th Corps, comprising British, Indian, West and East African troops and indigenous troops, including those of Aung San’s Burma Defence Army, which swapped sides to fight with the Allies
Operation Spider’s Web, in which dozens of Russian bombers were destroyed with drones, shows Ukraine’s aptitude for blue-sky thinking. It marks an inflection point in warfare