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A French officer, Colonel Ardant du Picq, more than most, perceived that the high rates of fire and long range of modern weapons meant that close-order battle was no longer possible: Ancient combat was fought in groups close together, within a small space, in open ground, in full view of one another, without the deafening […]

A Korean musketeer during the Imjin War, 1592 – 1598. Sengoku Jidai: Shadow of the Shogun Collector’s Edition Korea is not known as a military power, and most historians will be surprised to learn that this small country, dwarfed by China and Japan, developed one of the most effective musket-based armies of the seventeenth-century world. […]