Christos military and intelligence corner

Finland was part of the Russian Empire in the period 1809-1917. In December 1917 the Finnish declaration of independence led to a civil war ...

The Allied invasion of Western Europe in WWII was codenamed ‘Overlord’. The Germans learned of this through their spy in the British embas...

The Luftwaffe was one of the most interesting aspects of the German war machine. Built from the ground up in the 1930’s it dominated the s...

In war efficient and secure means of communication are vital for any undertaking. Without the ability to communicate quickly with his underl...

Time for some new TICOM reports: D-4   ‘Summary of Relevant Items from the War Diary of OKL/Gen. Nafue. 3 Abt., June 1944 to April 19...

The Luftwaffe was supposed to be a ‘tactical’ airforce that failed to invest resources in ‘strategic’ aircraft that could have won the war...

One of the high level British cryptosystems exploited by the Germans in WWII was the Interdepartmental Cypher. This was a 4-figure codebook ...

In the period 1941-43 the main theatre of war between British and German military forces was North Africa. There British forces had to fig...