This was the first Man Portable Air Defense (MANPAD) system used successfully in combat.
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Book Review: The Pirate World
Angus Konstam recounts the history of maritime outlawry as far back as the second millennium BC
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What We Learned From…Battle of the Chir River
The Germans virtually destroyed the Soviet Fifth Tank Army, primarily using a lone panzer division and despite a local Soviet numerical superiority
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Daily Quiz for March 8, 2019
In April 1204, the armies of the Fourth Crusade sacked this city.
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The Destruction of C Force
In 1941 Japanese invaders conquered Hong Kong in just 17 days—four years of suffering followed for Canadian defenders
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Daily Quiz for March 7, 2019
In 1961, 3,000 Katangese soldiers attack a company of the Irish Army at this African city.
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Book Review: A Lab of One’s Own
The void created by men going off to combat in World War I opened professional doors for women, Patricia Fara explains
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Beech Starship: ‘Little Bighorn With Wings’
Expectations were high when Burt Rutan teamed up with Beech to produce the Starship […]
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Daily Quiz for March 6, 2019
This was the name Nazi Germany assigned to its proposed intercontinental bomber.