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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)

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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The Soviet Red Army Developed Floating Recon Vehicles That Were Used Around the World

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As Afghanistan Collapsed, China’s Xi Jinping Visited a Museum

The ‘Parsley Massacre’ Shows How Quickly a Genocide Can Unfold

Overall view before the congress of joined French national assembly deputies and French senators at the Chateau de Versailles near Paris

Five Treaties that Helped Shape the Modern World

Revealed: President Kennedy Had a Secret Nuclear Fallout Bunker in South Florida

The Falklands War was More Important Than You Think

The Battleship Era Sank Along With HMS Prince of Wales

Dissecting The Myths and Realities of The Battle of Dunkirk

How America Prevented the Fall of South Vietnam in 1972

Nothing Can Keep up With The SR-71 Blackbird

As Bad As These Military Defeats Were, America Got Back On Its Feet

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Vladimir Putin: The Real Lessons of the 75th Anniversary of World War II

Third Rome Rising: The Ideologues Calling for a New Russian Empire

Why Didn't Mao Invade Taiwan?

What If Hitler Never Invaded Russia During World War II?

The Coming Demographic Collapse of China

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