Or is this a new fad?

Growing up I was taught that clever brave American patriotic volunteer Minutemen invented skirmishing, terrain cover, guerrilla warfare, sniping, meritocratic/democratic officer selection and used precision rifles while dumb British conscript soldiers led by poncy cowardly nepotistic noble officers wore bright visible red coats and marched in straight lines armed with outdated inaccurate muskets. These claims now strike me as implausible/editorialized, but were there real developments in military thinking/technology that did come out of the war?

It seems like, especially following Trajan when Rome was at the height of its land control, there would have been a vast amount of enemies created in the wake of Roman domination. Was a coalition ever created among mutual enemies from different countries against Rome? How successful were they? If one was never created, why not? Was Rome simply too powerful?

I'm mostly asking about big empires like the Persians, Greeks, Romans or Egyptians who had established religions. Was atheism a school of thought in these cultures and if so which classes of society did it pertain to and how were they treated by society?

I found several threads on how crime was handled for how pre-European-contact people of North America handled crime in their communities but none for Australia or peoples of Oceania.

It seems like a huge waste of time and effort, especially since he didn't even bother cutting through the other "fingers" of the Chalkidiki peninsula. Why cut through one but not the others?

Did he have a particular motive or claim to legitimacy, or was he conquering simply because he could?

I remember a video with B17s in WW2 that didn't carry bombs but had like a triple load of guns and ammo. And it seems like the idea would only get more effective with long range missiles. I get it's not much of an issue these days when our most frequent enemies don't really have a meaningful air defense capability but the story was different in the Cold war and and Vietnam. I picture:

B52 "Wild Weasel Plus": It's much like any other B52 but this one partnered with AWACS, had a few dozen vertical launch tubes for an assortment of Standard, Phoenix and Sparrow missiles. In place of its rear facing quad fifties was a "torpedo room" where the gunner would stuff Stinger missiles into tubes. Out on the wings, in addition to the cruise missiles the existent ones carry it would have a mix of anti radiation missiles. The weight of radars and munitions could not have been more than the bombs it would normally carry. Everyone in the 60s-now thought dog-fighting was over anyhow. Fighters didn't have the range. So what gives?

C130, 747 or something else fat and slow with a "Defense Package": Basically the torpedo room from above. Soldiers carry Stingers on their back. Why not give big vulnerable planes some bite?

I'm looking to read up about the crusades, and I was just wondering if anyone knew of a good book about them. I'm wabting to learn pretty much anything about the crusades from battles/infrastructure to politics at the time so any recommendations would be awesome. Thanks!

From what I know, Austria has been one of European power for hundreds of years, from Habsburg Monarchy era to Austro-Hungarian Empire. That just got me curious, has Austria ever tried to rise as a great power again? If so, how did it go? If no, why?

I went to the national art gallery and saw a statue of washington resigning. The description said he felt there shpuld be no standing armies, only those afriad of losing power over the people would keep yhem or something along those lines. I am also watching sons of liberty. I am not sure how accurate it is but his character in the series also really really inspired me and I would like to read any books he wrote about the revolution. The before, during, and after if possible. Any advice?

I heard a theory that there is contested evidence that the americas were partly populated before the berring strait existed and that small primitive boats were made that followed the coast line. Is there any true evidence suggesting this?

Would they still be around today if they had sided with the Allies?

Was listening to a Hardcore history episode where Dan Carlin said that the soviets had the most extensive spy network in the world before the second world war and I wondered how they were able to pull that off