Nations that revel in the conduct of war for its own sake seldom survive.
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Daily Quiz for April 30, 2015
This event signaled the start of the 1917 Russian Civil War.
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‘Nazi Attack on America’ Coming to PBS
‘Nazi Attack on America,’ a compelling new NOVA/National Geographic special, tells the story of U-166, the only enemy sub sunk in the Gulf of Mexico during WWII.
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Behind the Lines: Olmsted at War
During the Civil War, Frederick Law Olmsted left landscape design behind to help create the U.S. Sanitary Commission
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War List: Armageddon’s Dubious Arsenal
Some of the most controversial nuclear weapons programs of the 20th century
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Laws of War: NATO, an Evolving Alliance
Though the treaty hasn’t been altered in its six decades, the strategic stance of NATO has evolved with the times
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Artists at War: George Bellows’s War Series
An American artist’s interpretation of reported German atrocities against Belgians in World War I
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Why Germany’s Kriegsmarine Lost the Battle of the Atlantic
Without improvements in technological and tactical effectiveness, its U-boats were quite literally sunk
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Lessons of the Vendée
Peasants launch a bloody counterrevolution in one corner of France in 1793