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Nuclear weapons and arms control
Arms dealers - weapons, guns, military trade
3D Printing - weapons, guns, military uses
Yugoslavia and War in the 1990’s - Bosnia, Balkans
History of Europe - 17th century
Fascism - rise of fascist nationalism - current events and history in Europe, WWII
France - history, wars, WWI, WWII
USA history - the American Revolution
History of the USA - the Civil War
History of France - Napoleon and the French Revolution
A collection of articles about Crimes against Humanity in 19th Century Europe - Concentration Camps, WWII
a collection of articles and videos for travelers heading to Japan
a collection of articles and videos about Israel, Jordan, Palestinians and the West Bank
A collection of articles questioning whether or not - the lessons of WWI been forgotten? History of Wars (WWI, WWII)
A collection of articles about Nicaragua
a collection of articles and videos about Central and Eastern Europe
Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control
A collection of articles about El Salvador
A collection of articles about the European Union - D-Day Normandy - History of WWII
A collection of articles about the European Union - History of Wars (WWI, WWII)
A collection of articles and videos looking at arms control
articles and videos looking at drones, ai and military applications
2017: articles and videos looking at the US decision to recognize Jerusale as the capital of Israel (instead of Tel Aviv), and the political implications of this decision
The Balkans, or the Balkan Peninsula, is a geographic area in Eastern and Southeastern Europe with various and disputed borders. The region takes its name ...
Understanding the Cuba Missile crisis

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Article

Why the Pentagon wants to build thousands of easily replaceable, AI-enabled drones

Ukraine’s drone innovations have changed how the US is planning for a war with China. (2024)


Article

NATO and European defense: Europe is caught between Putin and Trump

Russian aggression and American wavering reveal how ill-equipped Europe is | Leaders (2024)


Article

The global arms bazaar. Meet the world’s new arms dealers 

Geopolitics in the war in Ukraine are changing where the world buys its arms. Where to buy drones, fighters and tanks on the cheap | International (2023)


Article

Why China fears Starlink. China in space

And why it wants to build its own satellite constellation in low-Earth orbit | China (2023)


Article

How Ukrainians modify civilian drones for military use

Drones and 3d printing: In the fight against Russian invaders, ingenuity pays | Science & technology (2023)


Article

Misconceptions About the Civil War | Mental Floss

The Civil War remains one of the most important chapters in American history. But the conflict itself was more complex than North vs. South. (2021)


Article

Starlink’s performance in Ukraine has ignited a new space race | The Economist

Never mind the moon; look to low-Earth orbit | Leaders (2023)


Article

The Pentagon's probably drooling over the Age of Empires 4 launch

It's all fun and games until we find out that all the fun and games could one day be used to train the machines to destroy us. Microsoft, a comp... (2021)


Article

Killer Drone Autonomously 'Hunted Down' a Human Target, UN Experts Say

A “lethal” weaponized drone “hunted down” and “remotely engaged” human targets without its handlers’ say-so during a conflict in Libya last year, a... (2021)


Article

Lessons learned — and forgotten — from the horrific epidemics of the U.S. Civil War

Important public health lessons from the Civil War became mainstream 20th century practices. Then many of them fell by the wayside. (2021)


Article

Microsoft gets contract worth up to $22 billion to outfit US Army with 120,000 AR headsets – TechCrunch

The killer use case for AR/VR might just be warfare. Today, Microsoft announced that it has received a contract to outfit the United States Army wi... (2021)


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Article

The Bomb Didn’t Beat Japan … Stalin Did

Have 70 years of nuclear policy been based on a lie? The U.S. use of nuclear weapons against Japan during World War II has long been a subject o... (2020)


Article

Why remote war is bad war - MIT Technology Review

Technology makes fighting war easier and more palatable—but it dangerously changes the nature of the fight, argues a US Marine veteran. "The lus... (2019)


Article

An Atomic Anniversary in the City the Bomb Spared - CityLab

At the end of World War II, Kokura, Japan, escaped nuclear destruction not once, but twice. Every August, the modern city’s residents mark the anni... (2019)


Article

What if Montcalm had won? - The Globe and Mail

New France was not the Golden Age nationalist myth-makers made it out to be (2009)


Article

America Was 20 Minutes Away From Being French

How French hubris determined the fate of North America. “Go there at dawn. The Plains of Abraham are located in what is now downtown Quebec C... (2016)


Article

Visiting Omaha Beach Before D-Day's 75th Anniversary - The Atlantic

Nothing Prepares You for Visiting Omaha Beach The grief at the Normandy American Cemetery feels world-historical... (2019)


Article

Why we should visit Auschwitz-Birkenau // Poland | Wanders Miles

Visit Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland, it's an emotional day seeing this dark chapter in our history but there's many reasons why w... (2019)


Article

The Cost of Courage: The 2 Couples Who Rescued My Family From The Nazis : NPR

Two couples sheltered Uri Berliner's family when the Nazis came to power. One thrived; the other paid a terrible price. (2018)


Article

Armistice Day: November 11, 1918 to November 11, 2018 - Scientific American Blog Network

"The war to end all wars"; that had to be renamed "The First World War"; ended 100 years ago (2018)


Article

Three Reasons to Fear Another ‘Great War’ Today -- Hal Brands, Bloomberg (2018)

Still think globalization will bring peace? They thought that in 1914, too. (2018)


Article

The Woman Who Smashed Codes: The Untold Story of Cryptography Pioneer Elizebeth Friedman – Brain Pickings

How an unsung heroine established a new field of science and helped defeat the Nazis with pencil, paper, and perseverance. (2018)


Article

50 Years After Prague Spring, Lessons on Freedom (and a Broken Spirit) - The New York Times

The invasion of Czechoslovakia did more than shatter the hopes of a country. It laid bare the totalitarian nature of the Communist regime. (2018)


Article

The fallout continues: Nagasaki 2018-08-10 | The Economist

António Guterres, the UN secretary-general, today met survivors of the American A-bomb that (2018)


Article

How El Salvador Became The World’s Most Violent Peacetime Country | HuffPost

The Central American nation registered more homicides in 2015 than in any year during its civil war. (2016)


Article

D-Day: How a British Oceanographer's Invention Decided Normandy's Fate

Deciding when to storm the beach at Normandy was no easy feat, as the slightest variation in the tides could spell disaster for incoming boats. Wit... (2018)


Article

How Geology Influenced The Landing In Normandy On D-Day | Forbes

Geology profoundly influenced the strategy adopted by the Allied forces to invade Nazi-occupied Europe on D-Day. (2018)


Article

The greatest war movie ever – and the ones I can't bear | Film | The Guardian

He groaned at Valkyrie and despaired at Saving Private Ryan. The award-winning historian takes aim at the war films that make him furious – and rev... (2018)


Video

What The Prisoner's Dilemma Reveals About Life, The Universe, and Everything

This is a video about the most famous problem in Game Theory, the Prisoner’s Dilemma. (2024)


Video

Anduril - Can Palmer Luckey Reinvent the U.S. Defense Industry? | WSJ

Military tech startup Anduril Industries is shaking up the U.S. defense industry as it is one of the few privately held technology companies findin... (2023)


Video

Bosnia: The Worst War You Never Learned About

Bosnia: The Worst War You Never Learned About (2023)


Video

Why Were Things So Terrible In the 17th Century - General Crisis Theory

Why Were Things So Terrible In the 17th Century - General Crisis Theory (2023)


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Yalta Conference: Winston Churchill's CRAZY Post-War Plan For Germany

Yalta Conference: Winston Churchill's CRAZY Post-War Plan For Germany (2023)


Video

World War II - Summary on a Map

Let's retrace on a map a summary of the main stages of WWII, from the end of WWI until the beginning of the Cold War. -------- (2023)


Video

World War I - Summary on a Map

Let's retrace on a map a summary of WWI, the so-called "Great War". This video summarises the period since the rise of nationalism in the middle of... (2023)


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Ethiopia, Egypt and water from the Nile: Why This Circle Could Spark Africa’s Biggest War

Ethiopia, Egypt, Sudan and water from the Nile: Why This Circle Could Spark Africa’s Biggest War (2023)


Video

Why didn't Vichy France join the Axis? (Short Animated Documentary)

When France fell to Germany (and Italy if you're feeling generous) it mostly became a client state of Berlin. Despite this France never tried to jo... (2023)


Video

The reason Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in WWII

Japan attacked the U.S Pacific Fleet at its base at Pearl Harbor on the 7th of December 1941, but what led to that decision? Why did the Japanese a... (2023)


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Why is South Tyrol a part of Italy and not Austria? (Short Animated Documentary)

Austria (and Austria-Hungary) used to own South Tyrol which despite being majority German-Speaking is today a part of Italy. So how did this come t... (2023)


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Why didn't Canada join the American Revolution? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why didn't Canada join the American Revolution? (Short Animated Documentary) (2023)


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Why is Cyprus Divided? (Short Animated Documentary)

Cyprus, like many countries, isn't whole. However unlike most nations which are split, it's split into three parts with Cyprus itself holding the s... (2023)


Video

Why didn't the Ottomans conquer Persia?

Why didn't the Ottomans conquer Persia?The Ottoman Empire secured its place as one of the most powerful and large empires throughout its 600 years ... (2023)


Video

Suez Crisis 1956 (All Parts)

In 1956, an international crisis over control of the Suez Canal put Britain and France into direct conflict with President Nasser of Egypt, a proud... (2023)


Video

Why was Turkey Neutral in WW2?

Why was Turkey Neutral in WW2? (2023)


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Why wasn't Thailand Colonized?

Why wasn't Thailand Colonized?As the powers of Europe began to grow and expand throughout the world’s history, colonialism became the forefront of ... (2023)


Video

Napoleon's Great Blunder: Spain and Portugal 1808

In 1808, Napoleon's rivalry with Britain led to an ill-fated intervention in Portugal and Spain, that sparked a nationalist revolt against the Fren... (2023)


Video

The Second Balkan War - Explained in 10 minutes

The Second Balkan War - Explained in 10 minutes (2023)


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The First Balkan War - Explained in 10 minutes

The First Balkan War - Explained in 10 minutes (2023)


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Why Azerbaijan Will Keep Attacking Armenia

Why Azerbaijan Will Keep Attacking Armenia (2022)


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American Civil War from The European Perspective | Animated History

American Civil War from The European Perspective | Animated History (2022)


Video

How Switzerland Became Unconquerable

How Switzerland Became Unconquerable (2022)


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KQED Learn | Discussions: The Gene : An Intimate History and Eugenics

How Can We Avoid the Mistakes of the Past? Eugenics is the idea that people can improve humanity by regulating who is allowed to reproduce and ... (2020)


Video

Why Ukraine is trapped in endless conflict - Vox

The ceasefire is completely ignored. Correction: In a previous version, the Russian Empire at 2:31 did not include Finland and northern Kazakhstan ... (2018)


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Fareed Zakaria: History is not a Hollywood movie - CNN Video

CNN's Fareed Zakaria questions whether progress is inexorable, drawing comparisons between today and the 1920s. (2018)


Video

Turning Point of history: D day Juno Beach

Examines Canada's role on June 6th, 1944 and the advance through Normandy, France. (2018)


Video

D-Day - A Critical Moment In History

The Normandy invasion was the largest seaborne assault in world history and was a pivotal moment in World War 2. This is a brief look back at that ... (2018)


Video

How ski warfare created biathlon

It all started as a military exercise in Norway. We interviewed a sports expert about the truth behind "mind over matter"... (2018)


Video

Ugly history: The 1937 Haitian Massacre - Edward Paulino

TED-Ed Published on Jan 25, 2018 When historians talk about the atrocities of the 20th century, we often think of those that took place during ... (2018)


Podcast

The Re-Militarization of Germany - The Daily | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from The Daily on Spotify. In the decades after World War II and the atrocities of the Holocaust, Germany deliberately under... (2023)


Podcast

What Does Bruce Springsteen's 'Born In The U.S.A.' Really Mean? : NPR

It's not enough to say the Bruce Springsteen hit is misunderstood. Its contrasts — between grim verses and a joyous chorus, damning facts and fierc... (2019)


Podcast

Madeleine Albright on fascism - The Economist asks

AMERICA'S first female secretary of state on how populism can slide into fascism, what Kim Jong Il and Vladimir Putin were like in person, and what... (2018)


Podcast

How is warfare changing? - The Economist

ANNE MCELVOY, our senior editor, spoke to members of the British and German armies to discuss how they are preparing for urban warfare. She visited... (2018)


Podcast

History of Trade policy after WWII (podcast) | The New York Times on Spotify

In announcing new protections on steel and aluminum imports, President Trump said he was acting in the interest of national security. But could the... (2018)


Podcast

The threat to world trade (podcast) | The Economist on Spotify

Our cover this week warns against the damage that will be inflicted by America’s impending tariffs on steel and aluminium. For the first time in de... (2018)


Podcast

North Korea willing to talk about giving up atomic arsenal | The Daily by The New York Times

South Korea says that the North is willing to talk about giving up its atomic arsenal. What happened to the threat of nuclear war? Guest: Mark Land... (2018)


Book

The Daughters of Yalta

"The story of the fascinating and fateful "daughter diplomacy" of Anna Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill, and Kathleen Harriman, three glamorous young wom... (2023)


Book

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin - Kindle

Description: From the bestselling author of On Tyranny, the definitive history of Hitler's and Stalin's wars against the civilians of Europe in Wor... (2018)


Book

Man's Search for Meaning - book by Viktor E. Frankl

Man's Search for Meaning has 231,979 ratings and 12,175 reviews. Frank said: After I read this book, which I finished many, many years ago, I had b... (2018)


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