War and Military Atlas

How Battles Were Fought
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Scored quizzes drawn from the atlas. Pick a topic, a difficulty and a length, and see where you stand.

Commanders

New Commanders, New Turning Points
Commanders Through History · 28 questions
Five questions from this wave's research: Wellington's stand at Waterloo, Zhukov's defense at Kursk, and the Soviet doctrine known as Deep Battle.
Commanders and Their Campaigns
Commanders Through History · 22 questions
Five commanders, five eras: test what this wave's research established about their wars, battles, forces, doctrines and weapons.

Doctrines

New Doctrines: From the Legion to the Insurgency
Doctrines Through History · 5 questions
Five questions on this wave's six new doctrines: Roman legion tactics, the grand battery, the pincer movement, siege warfare, Auftragstaktik and counterinsurgency.
Doctrines That Changed How Battles Were Fought
Doctrines Through History · 5 questions
Five ideas about how to fight, from Sun Tzu's caution against the pincer movement to the twentieth century's most disputed doctrine.
Doctrines Across Five Eras
Doctrines Through History · 5 questions
Five questions on named military doctrines, one from each era this atlas tracks: ancient legion tactics, medieval steppe warfare, modern blitzkrieg and guerrilla war, and Cold War containment.
More Doctrines Across the Eras
Doctrines Through History · 6 questions
Six more military doctrines and strategies, from the ancient pincer movement to Cold War nuclear strategy, matched to their own core claim.
A Third Wave of Doctrines Across the Eras
Doctrines Through History · 6 questions
Six more doctrines from across military history, each credited to its own entity page for the first time.

More Quizzes

Armies and Weapons of the American Wars
5 questions
Five questions on the commanders, armies and weapons of the American Revolutionary War and the American Civil War, drawn from this wave's own research.
Doctrines, Forces and Weapons of War
5 questions
Five new clusters from this wave's research: the Wehrmacht and its Tiger tank and 88, Fabian Rome's war of attrition against Hannibal, Masinissa's Numidian cavalry at Zama, and how Saladin broke the Crusaders at Hattin.
New Wars, New Doctrines
5 questions
Five questions from this wave's newly minted wars and doctrines: the Hundred Years' War through Vietnam, and the strategy entries that bracket them.