The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) operated on the belief that a small, powerful, technologically superior fleet was the the optimum strategy for their Navy. The development of the Japanese navy was groundbreaking and at the same time a huge drain on the resources of the country. In the early part of the 1920s over 30 percent of Japans national budget went to the IJN They launched the world's ...
By 1970 there was increasing political pressure in the U.S.A. to end the Vietnam war peacefully, as well as several other conflicts in the area that the US had a part in. there was however still heavy fighting ongoing throughout the region including Large scale operations and small Special forces operations, the difficult unfamiliar terrain and inhospitable climate made standard tactics unusable ...
On April 2nd, 1982, Argentinian Commandos mounted an invasion of the Falkland Islands following an earlier civilian occupation of South Georgia in March. they outnumbered the nominal defence force of Royal Marines stationed there and soon the Governor had no choice but to surrender. On April 4th, The British Nuclear submarine, Conquerer, was sent to enforce an exclusion zone, followed ...
The Seikosha company opened for business in 1881 and by 1938 it was producing a million watches a year. The company supplied the army in both an official capacity and also as the watch of choice for the japanese man on the street and by association the japanese soldier. The Seiko Nation watch was small, but this reflected Japans lack of natural resources within its borders, this relative lack of material ...
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