Thank you Professor Gregory Aldrete for producing this informative historical course.

As a student of history, I have learnt a lot from this course. Aspects of this course that I found interesting / enjoyable / memorable include (not in any order):

1. Operation Market Garden - 1944: Allied forces was "almost there" save for the last bridge!
2. Tannenberg - 1914: Russia beaten by much smaller sized Germany.
3. Isandlwana: 25,000 Zulus Undetected - 1879, due to poor positioning and reconnaissance.
4. Crimea: Charge of the Light Brigade - 1854. Poor / unclear orders by the British! Somehow before going through these lectures I thought the "Charge of the Light Brigade" was an American story, but I was wrong (it was at Crimea (British vs Russian)).
5. Napoleon Retreats in the Snow - 1812. I didn't know that Napoleon and his troops actually DID reach Moscow! But the Russians behaved differently from the French's expectations.
6. Genghis Khan's general Subotai's victories at Kalka River - 1223. Excellent application of "divide and conquer" strategy, utilising the Mongolian troops' speed advantage.
7. Fourth Crusade: Byzantium Betrayed - 1204. Destruction of Constantinople by the Crusaders, who was driven to do this primarily by the huge debts they incurred at Venice.
8. And lastly, wonderful insights from Professor Aldrete in the final lecture (Lecture 24) summarising the 23 or 24 case studies presented in this course.

If you enjoy history and/or military history and learning lessons from them, you will enjoy this course.