Did you know that more than 40,000 Thai military personnel served in Vietnam?
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Born Out of Desperation? The Coal Torpedo
In the history of covert-ops weaponry, the “coal torpedo” deployed in the American Civil […]
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Daily Quiz for March 17, 2020
This was the world’s first effective Close Air Support ground attack airplane.
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In the Time of Coronavirus, Social Distancing is Better When You Read (Or Reread) the Classics of War
Our best of the best reading material while hunkered down and riding out the pandemic.
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An Alaskan Village Holds the Key to Understanding the 1918 Spanish Flu
In August 1997, a scientist named Johan Hultin from San Francisco traveled to Brevig Mission and, with permission of the town’s elders, excavated the local cemetery to try and unearth a victim of the outbreak buried deep within the frozen tundra.
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Daily Quiz for March 15, 2020
She played Colleen McMurphy on the TV show China Beach.
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Daily Quiz for March 14, 2020
This is the world’s smallest ever piloted airplane.
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Why a Piece of North Carolina is Forever British
When the Battle of the Atlantic neared America’s East Coast, a small group of British sailors came to help — with tragic results.
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Daily Quiz for March 13, 2020
In 1947 Israel’s self-defense force, Haganah, set up the Land and Labor for Palestine in America to do this.