So what I thought I would do in this part of the series is look at a handful of niche digging tools, just to add to the mix ...

The Individual Protection Kit (IPK), or KIP, was a Military Experimental Engineering Establishment (MEXE) design from the ...

You may have noticed that, in all the posts, are pictures of British Army soldiers and equipment involved with field defences ...

Physical barriers (apart from wire and ditches) include concrete blocks, beams, and posts, in addition to various improvised ...

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This is the penultimate part of the field defence series before I close with a summary. I have briefly touched on tube and clamp systems, and various forms of scaffolding, but I thought I would bring ...

In any conflict, materials for field defences will be required. The main questions are how much is sensible to provision in advance, how will its use be organised, and how much can the host nation be ...

Barbed wire is a type of fencing wire constructed with sharp edges or points arranged at intervals along the strands. It typically consists of two or more strands of steel wire twisted together, with ...