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It's much harder to fight uphill than it is to attack downhill. Fatigue and speed play a huge role when assaulting a position, especially if it's elevated from you. If you lose momentum due to tiredness your chances of gaining an advantage are much less likely. That's why the knight in your first example is way more likely to kill his attacker than vice-versa. It's a lot harder to slice at a guy's feet when he's raining blows down on your head. To use a twist on your medieval example, imagine a group of archers. Will they have an easier time firing down on an approaching enemy from a dug in position or trying to shoot arrows uphill at their opponents who will no doubt already be entrenched? Maintaining the high ground advantage means the enemy will have a harder time trying to reach you.

You're also going to have advanced warning of anything coming your way, a hilltop fortress commands impressive views on the surrounding area whereas if you build your castle in a valley the enemy are going to be able to plunge fire down onto your position, effectively suppressing you and rendering much of your defenses null and void. Remember, just because someone can see you up top doesn't mean they'll have an easy time getting to you.

Check out this article (which I partially stole from) for a slightly more comprehensive answer.

Although certainly co-written, Audie Murphy's "To Hell and Back" ranks as one of the most intense first-person accounts of WWII. Murphy, the most-decorated American soldier ever, was a bona-fide war hero several times over, but the book barely makes any mention of his medals. Instead, it focuses on camaraderie, staying together, facing down fear and terror and simply trying to survive. The book pretty much covers only Murphy's military career so there's almost no "profiling" typical of modern military histories.

Amazon

Open Library

I'm currently reading "Introduction to global military history. 1775 to the present day" by Jeremy Black.

I'm still in the 1830s but the part from 1914 to today is around 200 pages (p.89 to p.292) and includes wars between non-western powers.

Chapter 5 is WW1, Chapter 7 WW2, Chapter 9 on the Cold War, 11 has the Gulf war and 12 includes wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

I don't like it so far tbh, Peter Browning's "Changing nature of Warfare. The development of land warfare from 1792 to 1945" was better while being shorter too. But that one doesn't cover 1945-present and makes it less suited for you I guess.

An op-ed by - Nilesh Kunwar is a retired Indian Army Officer.

Ok. I believe that.

265 Indian fake news sites caught pushing anti-Pakistan propaganda

Regardless, even if true that is not a war within Pakistan. Since American is involved in Syria, would you say there is a war in America? No. That would be dumb.

https://www.amazon.ca/Zbigniew-Brzezinski/dp/046509435X/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=35R7LEUFM1E6S&keywords=the+grand+chessboard&qid=1649369309&sprefix=the+grand+chess%2Caps%2C95&sr=8-1 will help you ✌🏼☮️

Everyone I Don't Like is a Russian Bot: Inspired by the wisdom of Hillary Clinton: A journal for infants, narcissists, and warmongers. Cool book

Everyone I Don't Like is a Russian Bot: Inspired by the wisdom of Hillary Clinton: A journal for infants, narcissists, and warmongers. Cool book actually.

It possibly was. Listen to Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast, and you'll get what I mean. For instance, one of the reasons for the Russian Revolution was the WWI, the infuriated soldiers widened the rows of protesters:

https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZGFuY2FybGluLmNvbS9kY2hoLWZlZWRidXJuZXIueG1s

For radically different perspectives:

• <em>The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston</em> by Sigfried Sassoon: Fiction in form of a memoir.
• <em>Storm of Steel</em> by Ernst Junger: Again, memoir/fiction.

"Technological advances fill the gap of human incompetence by creating tools for us to use to better our ability to combat."

But don't forget the Patriot

It Doesn't Take a Hero : The Autobiography of General H. Norman Schwarzkopf (Jr.) is an interesting account of his growing up as a US Army brat in Iran and Germany and his advancement through leadership posts and ranks to culminate in the Gulf War. Lots of good photographs.

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A friend, one-time US Army Ranger turned Navy Seal commander, Captain Perry served under Schwarzkopf as G2, intelligence chief.

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References:

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Schwarzkopf_Jr.

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https://smile.amazon.com/Doesnt-Take-Hero-Autobiography-Schwarzkopf/dp/0553563386

The Secret Man: An American Warrior's Uncensored Story by Frank "Pha Ma: the Flying Horse" Dux (autobiography; not to be confused by a newer book with the same title, The Secret Man) chronicles his training in Ninjutsu martial arts in California as a youth, his military and special forces training, his working on the side for Director of the CIA, William "Bill" Casey during the Reagan Administration, his experiences in the war between Iran and Iraq in which poison/harmful gas was used by both sides, his early insertion into Grenada to investigate potential bioweapons and the Cuban construction workers turned soldiers, and his work with Russian special forces. He shows lots of photos, including an amazing roundhouse kick through 2 Champagne bottles at very different heights at an exhibition in Paris. Some people tried to discredit him. He wrote that his father came from Israel through Canada.

. Jean-Claude van Damme plays him in the movie, Blood Sport, which focuses on his winning a secret Kumite fight-to-the-death championship.

. An excellent spy and military autobiography!!!

. I originally saw it at a library, read it and loved it, and then ordered 2 used copies on Amazon many years ago.

. Reference:

. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Dux

. https://smile.amazon.com/Secret-Man-American-Warriors-Uncensored/dp/0060391529

If you really want to get into the history of the Loyalist paramilitaries in the modern-day "Troubles" and with that the root causes of the "Troubles" of the 1960's and early '70's, I recommend you read David Boulton's excellent historical and contemporary account, <u>The U.V.F., 1966-73: An Anatomy of Loyalist Rebellion</u>, first published in 1973 or '74, I think. It is an exceedingly interesting book. I first read it in 1982.

David Boulton was not Irish, but an English investigative reporter and journalist who spent several years covering the beginning and early stages of the intercommunal violence in Northern Ireland and personally interviewed many of the key personnel among both Loyalist and Republican paramilitaries.

Doubtless the book is no longer in print, but you ought to be able to get a second-hand paperback copy online from somewhere. Great book and Boulton writes in crystal clear, lucid, succinct prose. He was clearly an excellent journalist and writer.

See, too, Goodreads: <u>The U.V.F., 1966-73: An Anatomy of Loyalist Rebellion</u>.

You might be very interested in this and this.
I used the latter one in my bachelors' thesis a lot.

https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Armies-History-Guerrilla-Warfare-ebook/dp/B007P9M034 - start with this. It's a great book. Not only does it intertwine methods shown on historic examples, but it will also provide you with further sources. Over 800 pages of pure knowledge, no political bias.

Not a documentary, but the first hand accounts in this book go far beyond anything else I've ever read concerning on the ground details: Boys in Zinc - Svetlana Alexievich