André Geraque Kiffer

livro novo nunca manuseado Drawing on the technical features of having heavier ships rigged with masts and sails, Antonius and Cleopatra's fleet could have sailed into Agmen (column) to a safe distance that left the enemy in doubt as to their battle order, and at the last possible moment formed a large Orbis (yes, a square similar to the tactical terrestrial formation, but without spaces inside) a...

livro novo nunca manuseado The Seven Years' War (1756-1763) was a global conflict between Great Britain and France for global preeminence. Britain, France and Spain fought both in Europe and overseas with armies and fleets, while Prussia sought territorial expansion in Europe and consolidation of its power. Occurred on June 18, 1757, the battle of Kolin was Frederick's first defeat in this war. Pr...

livro novo nunca manuseado In the simulation will be devoted more study to the naval and / or peripheral military problem, being a way of proving the possibility of the Allies victory, albeit partial - because of the uncertainty of the behavior of Germany in France -, in the war, without the need to erode Franco-British ground power in the western trenches.

livro novo nunca manuseado In this simulation of the battle of Pavia we are going to test a hypothesis in which the French would have strategically taken advantage of their situation in interior lines tactically had established in a safe place both in the internal perimeter - in front of the city - and in the external perimeter - the accesses to Pavia (note: as we saw Caesar in our book "Alesia") ...

livro novo nunca manuseado The Seven Years' War (1756-1763) was a conflict between Great Britain and France for global preeminence. Britain, France and Spain fought both in Europe and overseas with armies and fleets, while Prussia sought territorial expansion in Europe and consolidation of its power. At the Battle of Prague, on May 6, 1757, a formidable resistance from the Austrian infantry and ne...

livro novo nunca manuseado A Guerra dos Sete Anos (1756 a 1763) foi um conflito entre a Grã-Bretanha e a França pela preeminência global. Grã-Bretanha, França e Espanha lutaram na Europa e no mundo com forças terrestres e navais, enquanto a Prússia buscava sua expansão territorial na Europa e a consolidação de seu poder. Na batalha de Praga, em 6 de maio de 1757, uma formidável resistência da infa...

livro novo nunca manuseado The Winter War was between the Soviet Union and Finland. It began with the Soviet invasion of Finland on November 30, 1939, three months after the outbreak of World War II, and ended three and a half months later with the Moscow Peace Treaty on March 13, 1940. Despite its superior military power, especially in tanks and aircraft, the Soviet Union suffered severe losses a...

livro novo nunca manuseado The Battle of Tuyutí was the biggest and bloodiest battle of the entire Paraguay War and the South American continent, as it involved more than 55,000 men. It was fought on May 24, 1866, in a swampy, sandy and difficult to move region called Tuyutí, in southwestern Paraguay. Paraguayan historians maintain that poor coordination and a lack of detailed planning turned a ce...

livro novo nunca manuseado Na simulação, no nível estratégico, serão seguidas as ações a seguir: proteger as linhas de comunicação marítimas e terrestres entre as regiões da Confederação de Delos (aliadas de Atenas) à medida que desenvolver nosso poder terrestre, expandir as conquistas territoriais a partir das regiões aliadas desde o início da guerra (Acarnânia e Tessália) ou daquelas que sejam i...

livro novo nunca manuseado The Thirty Years' War from 1618 to 1648 is considered one of the most destructive wars in European history. It is estimated that between 4.5 and 8 million soldiers and civilians died as a direct result, while some areas of Germany suffered population declines of more than 50%, also from starvation and disease. The Battle of Nördlingen, 27 August or 6 September 1634 (Juli...

livro novo nunca manuseado The basis of this strategic simulation will be as it would have been if there had been a Single State Policy in Assyria, as actually occurred following the Sargonon kings. In the end, it is hoped to reach the maximum historical expansion achieved by the Assyrian Empire, keeping it within self-sustaining limits, without letting the historical disappearance occur. We will ...

livro novo nunca manuseado The Battle of Algiers was an urban guerrilla campaign fought by the FLN (Front for the National Liberation of Algeria) against French colonial authorities in Algeria from late 1956 to late 1957, including police, regular soldiers, and veterans of the Indochina War. Failures of the rural insurgency forced the malcontents to find new avenues of action designed to create ma...

livro novo nunca manuseado A Guerra dos Trinta Anos de 1618 a 1648 é considerada uma das guerras mais destrutivas da história europeia. Estima-se que entre 4,5 e 8 milhões de soldados e civis morreram como resultado direto, enquanto algumas áreas da Alemanha sofreram declínios populacionais de mais de 50%, também pela fome e por doenças. A guerra fez parte da luta religiosa alemã que foi iniciada ...

livro novo nunca manuseado In the simulation will be considered the historical operational strategy of Datis, which is to get an involvement on Athens, but preserving a tactical force in Marathon able to maintain the initiative, obtaining a tactical victory. This would be obtained either by the destruction of the Greek army on the spot, or by its retraction under pressure from the Persian cavalry ...

livro novo nunca manuseado The Battle of Sekigahara took place on October 21, 1600 in what is now Gifu Prefecture on the Japanese island of Honshu at the end of the Sengoku period. This battle was fought by the forces of Tokugawa Ieyasu against a coalition of clans loyal to Toyotomi, under Ishida Mitsunari, several of whom defected before or during the battle, leading to Tokugawa's victory. Howeve...

livro novo nunca manuseado French involvement in the American Revolutionary War from 1775 to 1783 began when France, a hotbed of Enlightenment ideas and a historic rival to the Kingdom of Great Britain, secretly sent supplies to the American Continental Army when it was established in June 1775. It followed an Alliance Treaty in 1778, which led to French remittances of money and material to the Un...

livro novo nunca manuseado The politics of the Republic of Carthage will be played, while the actions of the other contemporary powers will be simulated based on historical assumptions, each seeking to apply its own policy of "Divide et Impera" in a scenario that we can affirm, according to geographer Eratosthenes, as the first world war.

livro novo nunca manuseado In the simulations of these naval battles we will use combined adaptations between the board games War Galley and Flying Colors of GMT Games, thus characterizing well to have been a century of transition between the rowing ships for the sailing ships during the development of the war in the 16th century. During the analysis and simulation of wars, campaigns and battles w...

livro novo nunca manuseado Historiadores ainda argumentam sobre os motivos do boêmio (tcheco) Wallenstein durante a guerra. Alguns o veem como um patriota alemão, outros como um grande mercenário. Ele não possuía o gênio tático de Gustavo Adolfo, porém era um mobilizador e estrategista muito habilidoso. "E se" ele realmente tivesse tido o potencial para ser um "Napoleão" alemão, unindo a Alemanha ...

livro novo nunca manuseado The simulation, trying to test the hypothesis outlined, will be that unlike a forward single advance with a disadvantageous frontal shock to the Spartans, because they did not have a second line, will try to maneuver and approach both Athenian flanks, pushing them towards the center and land ground.

livro novo nunca manuseado In the simulation, at the naval strategic level, in order to guarantee local superiority or to be able to maintain a reserve force (the third line), the Egyptian force would not have been deployed to the north channel, so, too, the Greek navy would be all over. concentrated in the south channel. And at the tactical level, Ariabignes would have well understood his goals, ...

livro novo nunca manuseado The American Civil War, which took place between April 12, 1861 and May 26, 1865, took place in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the former. At the beginning of the war, both sides believed that a major battle would decide the conflict. The Confederacy failed in d...

livro novo nunca manuseado As an outline of the tactical maneuver that will be tested in the simulated battle game of chapter 3, we present the Staunton chess Opening as a model, where we will consider a hypothesis (compared to chess) that employs the battle order 12, Yarmuk's or the reinforced oblique on the attacking flank, which has its best use in an attack which a smaller force (Note: in this...

livro novo nunca manuseado A Guerra Civil Americana, entre 12 de abril de 1861 e 26 de maio de 1865, ocorreu nos Estados Unidos, entre a União ("o Norte") e a Confederação ("o Sul"), que foi formada em 1861 por estados que se separaram daquela. O Plano Anaconda foi uma estratégia delineada pela União para suprimir a Confederação no início da Guerra Civil Americana. Proposto pelo general comandante...

livro novo nunca manuseado In the development of this simulation of a "War in colonial Brazil" I will use an adaptation - expanding the war to all of Brazil - of the board game "França Antártica", by Riachuelo Games, which explores the French colonization in southern Brazil. I will develop the story on four boards, one strategic, based on a map by the French navigator Jean Parmentier, published in...

livro novo nunca manuseado A Batalha do Atlântico foi a mais longa campanha militar contínua na Segunda Guerra Mundial, ocorreu de 1939 até a derrota da Alemanha nazista em 1945, cobrindo uma parte importante da história naval. A Batalha Aérea da Inglaterra foi a primeira grande campanha militar travada inteiramente por forças aéreas. Na Batalha do Atlântico os Aliados gradualmente ganharam vantag...

livro novo nunca manuseado The Egyptian advantage, in the simulation, will be the principle of applied mass concentrated in a limited space and timeframe, tending to surprise the enemy by the violence and speed of lightning. The balance of the Egyptian deployment will be based primarily on deep mutual support within each zone of action of the divisions, provided by the massing of means against lim...

livro novo nunca manuseado The objective of this military strategic simulation will be to see how it would have been possible for Egypt, from 1560 BC - after the expulsion of the Hyksos - to conquer, consolidate and maintain the Levant during the 18th, 19th and 20th Dynasties, until 1070 BC, facing similar objectives, those of the Mitanni and the Hitites. Thus, in this book, the Egyptian Empire wi...

livro novo nunca manuseado During the French and Napoleonic Revolutionary Wars the British Royal Navy established its reputation as one of the most effective fighting institutions in history. The Navy not only played a key role in defeating France, but periodically opposed, usually with notable success, against its allies, Holland, Spain and Denmark, then establishing a maritime supremacy that wou...

livro novo nunca manuseado The biggest pitched battle in Brazilian territory took place on February 20, 1827, about 13 km east of the current city of Rosário do Sul. Alvear (commander of the platine republican army) disguised his movements in order to make Barbacena (commander of the Brazilian imperial army) believe that he was chasing the rear of a retreating army, when in fact all his troops wer...

livro novo nunca manuseado Accepting that, in operational strategic terms, the Persian army needed to have reestablished contact with the bulk of the Macedonian army, particularly by the approaches cited above, it will be considered whether it would have been possible for the Persians, being strategically offensive, to have been, mainly by unfavorable terrain, tactically defensive. As a result, in...

livro novo nunca manuseado The Thirty Years' War from 1618 to 1648 is considered one of the most destructive wars in European history. It is estimated that between 4.5 and 8 million soldiers and civilians died as a direct result, while some areas of Germany suffered population declines of more than 50%, also from hunger and disease. The war was part of the German religious struggle that was starte...

livro novo nunca manuseado The Battle of Dien Bien Phu, in the Indochina War, took place between French Union troops and Viet Minh forces between March 13 and May 7, 1954. Originally, Dien Bien Phu was to be a base for mobile units capable of deploying throughout the Lai Chau district with American M24 Chaffee light tanks from the Northwest Operational Group. In the simulation through the Legion W...

livro novo nunca manuseado A Guerra Civil Americana, entre 12 de abril de 1861 e 26 de maio de 1865, ocorreu nos Estados Unidos, entre a União ("o Norte") e a Confederação ("o Sul"), que foi formada em 1861 por estados que se separaram daquela. No início da guerra ambos os lados acreditavam que uma grande batalha decidiria o conflito. A Confederação foi infeliz em elaborar uma estratégia geral par...

livro novo nunca manuseado Since 2010 I have published the following series of simulations: I. Historical Simulation of the Wars of the First Empires II. Historical Simulation of the Wars in Classical Greece III. Historical Simulation of the Roman Wars IV. Historical Simulation of Wars in the Medieval Age V. Historical Simulation of Wars in the Modern Age (1453 to 1774) VI. Historical Simulation o...

livro novo nunca manuseado In the simulation of the battle of Ayn Jalut, because of the anchorage of the Mamluk device on higher ground, unfavorable to the Mongol maneuver, Ketbugha will not follow Baydar with the main battle line, waiting in the valley and / or hills. Baydar and the vanguard will be instrumental in our (Mongol) device, and should avoid being destroyed, but advancing and displacin...

livro novo nunca manuseado A batalha de Monte Castello marcou a presença da Força Expedicionária Brasileira (FEB) na Segunda Guerra Mundial. Ela arrastou-se por três meses, de 24 de novembro de 1944 a 21 de fevereiro de 1945, e está inserida na 2ª fase da Operação de Rompimento da Linha Gótica (no setor de responsabilidade do IV Corpo do V exército norte-americano), na Campanha da Itália. Consider...

livro novo nunca manuseado In the simulation it will be considered the hypothesis of what might have been the final tactical result if the Argive left wing had been reinforced by exploring a technique similar to the oblique order (Battle of Leuctra, 371 BC). However, going a little further, it will also be considered how the confrontation would have occurred between a massive Argive device, with t...

livro novo nunca manuseado The Battle of Lissa or Battle of Vis (Croatian: Bitka kod Visa) took place on 20 July 1866 in the Adriatic Sea near the Dalmatian island of Vis (Lissa in Italian) and was a significant victory for a fleet of the Austrian Empire over a numerically superior Italian. One of the main reasons for this poor performance was the internal rivalry between the commanders of the Ita...

livro novo nunca manuseado In the scenario of the wargame that will be used, broadly speaking, the plan of the German naval campaign for the year 1916 would have as its main objective to attract and destroy fractions of the British Grand Fleet, by combining the maximum means available in concentrated actions - which were historically attempted but not coordinated throughout 1916 - relying on the m...

livro novo nunca manuseado It took place between February 24 and 27, 1991, with its main phase at Kuwait International Airport. However, much of the fighting actually took place on the airport access routes. Iraqi forces were unable to utilize the advantage that could have been gained through the use of urban warfare - fighting in cities or towns - which could have caused significant casualties to...

livro novo nunca manuseado The War of the Spanish Succession, fought from July 1701 to September 1714, and triggered by the November 1700 death of Charles II of Spain, was a conflict for control of the Spanish Empire between his heirs, Philip of Anjou - grandson of the French king. Louis XIV - and Archduke Charles of Austria. On July 11, 1708 the battle was fought near the town of Oudenaarde (in t...