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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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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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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 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 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)


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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)


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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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The Woman Who Smashed Codes: The Untold Story of Cryptography Pioneer Elizebeth Friedman – Brain Pickings

How an unsung heroine established a new field of science and helped defeat the Nazis with pencil, paper, and perseverance. (2018)


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How El Salvador Became The World’s Most Violent Peacetime Country | HuffPost

The Central American nation registered more homicides in 2015 than in any year during its civil war. (2016)


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The greatest war movie ever – and the ones I can't bear | Film | The Guardian

He groaned at Valkyrie and despaired at Saving Private Ryan. The award-winning historian takes aim at the war films that make him furious – and rev... (2018)


Article

Get Ready for the Silicon Military - Harvard

As the global defense industry embraces digital technology, it is creating a new type of warfare with different winners and losers... (2018)


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Google Is Helping the Pentagon Build AI for Drones | Gizmodo

Google has partnered with the United States Department of Defense to help the agency develop artificial intelligence for analyzing drone footage, a... (2018)


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Colombia’s Civil Conflict | Council on Foreign Relations

The Colombian government and FARC rebels have signed a historic peace agreement that charts a path to sustainable peace after decades of civil war. (2018)


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The legacies of 1917 – Eurozine

What does the Bolshevik revolution, whose 100th anniversary falls this week, mean for Russia? Historian Orlando Figes speaks to the editor of Euroz... (2017)


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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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 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)


Video

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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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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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

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

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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