The Winter War is a 1989 Finnish war film directed by Pekka Parikka and based on the 1984 novel Talvisota by Antti Tuuri. It ...

Combat has changed in the decades since Finland's Winter War with Russia, but one key lesson still shapes how it thinks about fighting in the Arctic. Dense forests and deep snow force armies onto ...

This episode explains Finland’s “motti” tactic in January 1940—encircling Soviet units into isolated pockets that slowly collapse from hunger, cold, and supply failure while Finnish forces dig in and ...

In December 1939, the Soviet Union launched a large-scale invasion of Finland, expecting a rapid victory that instead turned into a difficult winter campaign. Finnish resistance, harsh weather, and ...