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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)
THE International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), which was established by the United Nations Security Council in 1993, closes ... (2018)
ON January 20th Turkey launched a military operation (optimistically dubbed “Olive Branch”) in Syria's north-western enclave of Afrin. It started w... (2018)
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)
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)
Finland shares an 833-mile border with an aggressive and unpredictable neighbor. That proximity led to a major conflict during World War II—the hor... (2017)
ALONG the road from the port city of Hodeida to Sana’a, Yemen’s capital, rugged mountains rise sharply from a coastal plain, then level off, giving... (2017)
Index to villages and settlements. Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington. Available also through the Library of Congress Web... (2017)
“It may be a little irksome at first, but you’ll soon get used to it.” "The vast majority of people watching this newsreel in Britain at the tim... (2017)
A new study raises the possibility that the trauma of war can be inherited. (2017)
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)
And why it wants to build its own satellite constellation in low-Earth orbit | China (2023)
Drones and 3d printing: In the fight against Russian invaders, ingenuity pays | Science & technology (2023)
Never mind the moon; look to low-Earth orbit | Leaders (2023)
Experts worry about East Asia and the Middle East (2021)
To stop it, the nuclear powers need to act (2021)
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)
Still think globalization will bring peace? They thought that in 1914, too. (2018)
The invasion of Czechoslovakia did more than shatter the hopes of a country. It laid bare the totalitarian nature of the Communist regime. (2018)
The Manhattan Project, the program that developed the first nuclear weapons during World War II, worked out of three purpose-built cities in Tennes... (2018)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Miniature robotics ON NOVEMBER 12th a video called “Slaughterbots” was uploaded to YouTube. Slaughterbots” is fiction. The question Dr Russel... (2018)
LAST month the emirate of Abu Dhabi held the International Defence Exhibition and Conference (IDEX), the Middle East's largest arms fair. The four-... (2018)
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)
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)
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)
This is a video about the most famous problem in Game Theory, the Prisoner’s Dilemma. (2024)
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)
Bosnia: The Worst War You Never Learned About (2023)
Why Were Things So Terrible In the 17th Century - General Crisis Theory (2023)
Yalta Conference: Winston Churchill's CRAZY Post-War Plan For Germany (2023)
Let's retrace on a map a summary of the main stages of WWII, from the end of WWI until the beginning of the Cold War. -------- (2023)
Let's retrace on a map a summary of WWI, the so-called "Great War". This video summarises the period since the rise of nationalism in the middle of... (2023)
Ethiopia, Egypt, Sudan and water from the Nile: Why This Circle Could Spark Africa’s Biggest War (2023)
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)
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)
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)
Why didn't Canada join the American Revolution? (Short Animated Documentary) (2023)
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)
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)
In 1956, an international crisis over control of the Suez Canal put Britain and France into direct conflict with President Nasser of Egypt, a proud... (2023)
Why was Turkey Neutral in WW2? (2023)
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)
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)
The Second Balkan War - Explained in 10 minutes (2023)
The First Balkan War - Explained in 10 minutes (2023)
Why Azerbaijan Will Keep Attacking Armenia (2022)
American Civil War from The European Perspective | Animated History (2022)
How Switzerland Became Unconquerable (2022)
The ceasefire is completely ignored. Correction: In a previous version, the Russian Empire at 2:31 did not include Finland and northern Kazakhstan ... (2018)
Examines Canada's role on June 6th, 1944 and the advance through Normandy, France. (2018)
It all started as a military exercise in Norway. We interviewed a sports expert about the truth behind "mind over matter"... (2018)
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)
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)
CNN's Fareed Zakaria questions whether progress is inexorable, drawing comparisons between today and the 1920s. (2018)
AMERICA'S first female secretary of state on how populism can slide into fascism, what Kim Jong Il and Vladimir Putin were like in person, and what... (2018)
ANNE MCELVOY, our senior editor, spoke to members of the British and German armies to discuss how they are preparing for urban warfare. She visited... (2018)
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)
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)
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)
South Korea says that the North is willing to talk about giving up its atomic arsenal. What happened to the threat of nuclear war? Guest: Mark Land... (2018)
"The story of the fascinating and fateful "daughter diplomacy" of Anna Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill, and Kathleen Harriman, three glamorous young wom... (2023)
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)