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Article

The global arms bazaar. Meet the world’s new arms dealers 

Geopolitics in the war in Ukraine are changing where the world buys its arms. Where to buy drones, fighters and tanks on the cheap | International (2023)


Article

Why China fears Starlink. China in space

And why it wants to build its own satellite constellation in low-Earth orbit | China (2023)


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How Ukrainians modify civilian drones for military use

Drones and 3d printing: In the fight against Russian invaders, ingenuity pays | Science & technology (2023)


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Starlink’s performance in Ukraine has ignited a new space race | The Economist

Never mind the moon; look to low-Earth orbit | Leaders (2023)


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An Atomic Anniversary in the City the Bomb Spared - CityLab

At the end of World War II, Kokura, Japan, escaped nuclear destruction not once, but twice. Every August, the modern city’s residents mark the anni... (2019)


Article

The Long Way Round: The Plane that Accidentally Circumnavigated the World

The morning of 6th January 1942 was going to be a cold one. Not that this was unusual for New York, mused the night-shift air controller at LaGuard... (2018)


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Mutually assured detection - Military applications - The Economist

Better anti-submarine warfare will mean fewer places for subs to hide "ON JULY 20th 1960, a missile popped out of an apparently empty Atlantic o... (2018)


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Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Long Term Health Effects | K=1 Project

many survivors feared that nothing would grow on the decimated earth. By the time spring of 1946 arrived, the citizens of Hiroshima were surprised ... (2018)


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Why Kashmir is erupting again - The Economist explains

TODAY marks the 48th consecutive day of protests in Jammu & Kashmir, India’s only Muslim-majority state. Young Kashmiri men have been on the street... (2018)


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What is Nigeria’s “third conflict”? - The Economist explains

LAST week armed men attacked a community in Enugu, a state in Nigeria’s south-east. Local press reported that they kidnapped two villagers and that... (2018)


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Why Japan and Russia never formally ended the second world war - The Economist explains

VLADIMIR PUTIN, Russia's president, will make his first official visit to Japan on December 15th, where he will join Shinzo Abe in the hot springs ... (2018)


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Slaughterbots: Military robots are getting smaller and more capable - The Economist

Miniature robotics ON NOVEMBER 12th a video called “Slaughterbots” was uploaded to YouTube. Slaughterbots” is fiction. The question Dr Russel... (2018)


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Why Namibian chiefs are taking Germany to court - The Economist explains

IN 1904 the Herero people of modern-day Namibia rose up against German colonists, who had seized and settled much of their land. The response of th... (2018)


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Why Colombia’s peace deal is taking so long to implement - The Economist explains

COLOMBIA’S 52-year civil war killed 220,000 people and displaced 7m more. But on August 24th last year, after four years of painstaking negotiation... (2018)


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Why is Okinawa blocking plans to build an American military base? - The Economist explains

ON FRIDAY the assembly of Okinawa, Japan’s southernmost territory, is set to approve a new lawsuit to block construction of an American military ba... (2018)


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Is Japan’s army ready for battle? - The Economist explains

JAPAN’S latest white paper on defence pulls few punches. “Destabilising factors” in the region are “becoming more tangible and acute”, it warns. No... (2018)


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What the Yugoslav war-crimes tribunal achieved - The Economist explains

THE International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), which was established by the United Nations Security Council in 1993, closes ... (2018)


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Why Turkey’s troops are in Syria again - The Economist explains

ON January 20th Turkey launched a military operation (optimistically dubbed “Olive Branch”) in Syria's north-western enclave of Afrin. It started w... (2018)


Article

The Berlin Wall has now been down longer than it was up - The Economist

28 years, two months and 27 days TO MILLIONS the Berlin Wall—which as of today has been down for longer than it was up—was above all a symbol. I... (2018)


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Witch trials in the context of the Reformation - A dark era | The Economist

LAST year, as Europe marked the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, thousands of words were penned by people trying to figure out that grim era w... (2018)


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Daughters of WWII refugees are more likely to have mental illness - Axios

A new study raises the possibility that the trauma of war can be inherited. (2017)


Article

The Pentagon's probably drooling over the Age of Empires 4 launch

It's all fun and games until we find out that all the fun and games could one day be used to train the machines to destroy us. Microsoft, a comp... (2021)


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Why the Pentagon wants to build thousands of easily replaceable, AI-enabled drones

Ukraine’s drone innovations have changed how the US is planning for a war with China. (2024)


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Killer Drone Autonomously 'Hunted Down' a Human Target, UN Experts Say

A “lethal” weaponized drone “hunted down” and “remotely engaged” human targets without its handlers’ say-so during a conflict in Libya last year, a... (2021)


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Lessons learned — and forgotten — from the horrific epidemics of the U.S. Civil War

Important public health lessons from the Civil War became mainstream 20th century practices. Then many of them fell by the wayside. (2021)


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Microsoft gets contract worth up to $22 billion to outfit US Army with 120,000 AR headsets – TechCrunch

The killer use case for AR/VR might just be warfare. Today, Microsoft announced that it has received a contract to outfit the United States Army wi... (2021)


Article

The Bomb Didn’t Beat Japan … Stalin Did

Have 70 years of nuclear policy been based on a lie? The U.S. use of nuclear weapons against Japan during World War II has long been a subject o... (2020)


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Why remote war is bad war - MIT Technology Review

Technology makes fighting war easier and more palatable—but it dangerously changes the nature of the fight, argues a US Marine veteran. "The lus... (2019)


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What if Montcalm had won? - The Globe and Mail

New France was not the Golden Age nationalist myth-makers made it out to be (2009)


Article

America Was 20 Minutes Away From Being French

How French hubris determined the fate of North America. “Go there at dawn. The Plains of Abraham are located in what is now downtown Quebec C... (2016)


Video

What The Prisoner's Dilemma Reveals About Life, The Universe, and Everything

This is a video about the most famous problem in Game Theory, the Prisoner’s Dilemma. (2024)


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Anduril - Can Palmer Luckey Reinvent the U.S. Defense Industry? | WSJ

Military tech startup Anduril Industries is shaking up the U.S. defense industry as it is one of the few privately held technology companies findin... (2023)


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Bosnia: The Worst War You Never Learned About

Bosnia: The Worst War You Never Learned About (2023)


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Why Were Things So Terrible In the 17th Century - General Crisis Theory

Why Were Things So Terrible In the 17th Century - General Crisis Theory (2023)


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Ethiopia, Egypt and water from the Nile: Why This Circle Could Spark Africa’s Biggest War

Ethiopia, Egypt, Sudan and water from the Nile: Why This Circle Could Spark Africa’s Biggest War (2023)


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Why didn't Vichy France join the Axis? (Short Animated Documentary)

When France fell to Germany (and Italy if you're feeling generous) it mostly became a client state of Berlin. Despite this France never tried to jo... (2023)


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The reason Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in WWII

Japan attacked the U.S Pacific Fleet at its base at Pearl Harbor on the 7th of December 1941, but what led to that decision? Why did the Japanese a... (2023)


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Why is South Tyrol a part of Italy and not Austria? (Short Animated Documentary)

Austria (and Austria-Hungary) used to own South Tyrol which despite being majority German-Speaking is today a part of Italy. So how did this come t... (2023)


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Why is Cyprus Divided? (Short Animated Documentary)

Cyprus, like many countries, isn't whole. However unlike most nations which are split, it's split into three parts with Cyprus itself holding the s... (2023)


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Why didn't the Ottomans conquer Persia?

Why didn't the Ottomans conquer Persia?The Ottoman Empire secured its place as one of the most powerful and large empires throughout its 600 years ... (2023)


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Why was Turkey Neutral in WW2?

Why was Turkey Neutral in WW2? (2023)


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Why wasn't Thailand Colonized?

Why wasn't Thailand Colonized?As the powers of Europe began to grow and expand throughout the world’s history, colonialism became the forefront of ... (2023)


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Napoleon's Great Blunder: Spain and Portugal 1808

In 1808, Napoleon's rivalry with Britain led to an ill-fated intervention in Portugal and Spain, that sparked a nationalist revolt against the Fren... (2023)


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The Second Balkan War - Explained in 10 minutes

The Second Balkan War - Explained in 10 minutes (2023)


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The First Balkan War - Explained in 10 minutes

The First Balkan War - Explained in 10 minutes (2023)


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Why Azerbaijan Will Keep Attacking Armenia

Why Azerbaijan Will Keep Attacking Armenia (2022)


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Why Ukraine is trapped in endless conflict - Vox

The ceasefire is completely ignored. Correction: In a previous version, the Russian Empire at 2:31 did not include Finland and northern Kazakhstan ... (2018)


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How ski warfare created biathlon

It all started as a military exercise in Norway. We interviewed a sports expert about the truth behind "mind over matter"... (2018)


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Ugly history: The 1937 Haitian Massacre - Edward Paulino

TED-Ed Published on Jan 25, 2018 When historians talk about the atrocities of the 20th century, we often think of those that took place during ... (2018)


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KQED Learn | Discussions: The Gene : An Intimate History and Eugenics

How Can We Avoid the Mistakes of the Past? Eugenics is the idea that people can improve humanity by regulating who is allowed to reproduce and ... (2020)


Podcast

The threat to world trade (podcast) | The Economist on Spotify

Our cover this week warns against the damage that will be inflicted by America’s impending tariffs on steel and aluminium. For the first time in de... (2018)


Podcast

The Re-Militarization of Germany - The Daily | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from The Daily on Spotify. In the decades after World War II and the atrocities of the Holocaust, Germany deliberately under... (2023)


Podcast

History of Trade policy after WWII (podcast) | The New York Times on Spotify

In announcing new protections on steel and aluminum imports, President Trump said he was acting in the interest of national security. But could the... (2018)


Book

The Daughters of Yalta

"The story of the fascinating and fateful "daughter diplomacy" of Anna Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill, and Kathleen Harriman, three glamorous young wom... (2023)


Book

Man's Search for Meaning - book by Viktor E. Frankl

Man's Search for Meaning has 231,979 ratings and 12,175 reviews. Frank said: After I read this book, which I finished many, many years ago, I had b... (2018)


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