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Mini Subs, Big Failure: Why Imperial Japan Did Not Succeed in Using Them at Pearl Harbor

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How American Air Power Helped Seal the Fate of Imperial Japan

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Yes, Australia Had Its Own Pearl Harbor (and It Was Worse)

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Why the Cost of Seizing Iwo Jima Actually Saved Lives

An American-Made Greek Tragedy: Coronavirus and the Thucydides Trap

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Why China Is Trying to Copy Japan’s Old Political Plan for Declaring Primacy in Asia

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Neither Side Was Ready For World War II's Bombers War

Zenith Star: America’s 1980s Attempt at Weaponizing Lasers in Space

Here’s How Russia’s Ivan IV Put the Terrible in ‘Ivan the Terrible’

Bad Odds: Twenty-Two Percent of U.S. Submariners Didn’t Return from WWII

Did This American Spy for Nazi Germany?

Hitler Wanted an A-10 Warthog, Instead he Got an Hs129

Hitler Had Plans: What Lay Behind the Infamous Nazi Invasion of Poland?

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What If Hitler Never Invaded Russia During World War II?

The Coming Demographic Collapse of China

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