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War Is Boring
From drones to AKs, high technology to low politics, exploring how and why we fight above, on and below an angry world
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War Is Boring
Mar 28, 2017
Britain’s Bizarre ‘Fleet Shadower’ Showed Up at the Wrong Time
Slow-flying battleship spotters were…
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War Is Boring
Mar 28, 2017
In 1944, a Malfunctioning B-24 Bomber Required Mid-Air Surgery
Pilot Bill Norris survived some close…
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Robert Beckhusen
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War Is Boring
Mar 27, 2017
Lend-Lease Saved Countless Lives — But Probably Didn’t Win the Eastern Front
The Western allies…
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War Is Boring
Mar 27, 2017
France’s Fall Didn’t Make Any Difference to Gun-Maker MAB
It kept right on making pistols for the…
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War Is Boring
Mar 27, 2017
From Nazi Germany to Argentina — A Proposal for the World’s First Small, Supersonic Cruise Missile
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Darien Cavanaugh
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War Is Boring
Mar 26, 2017
Women With Guns Helped Win the Nicaraguan Revolution
The Sandinistas recruited women into combat units…
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Robert Beckhusen
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War Is Boring
Mar 26, 2017
The Mosin-Nagant ‘PU Sniper’ Was the King of 20th Century Sniper Rifles
Quantity has a quality all its…
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War Is Boring
Mar 26, 2017
‘Iron Duke’ Was the United Kingdom’s Super Dreadnought
Britain pumped out battleships like crazy…
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Paul Iddon
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War Is Boring
Mar 25, 2017
Lessons From the Deadliest Chemical War That Didn’t Happen
Britain and Germany were loaded to the…
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War Is Boring
Mar 25, 2017
A Short History of North Korea’s Long Mini-Submarine Spy Campaign
When caught, North Korean agents…
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