Newsweek

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On October 17, a woman mourns the death of her relative during a funeral for those killed after being struck by ballistic missiles. The weapons were allegedly launched by the Armenian army and hit the second-largest city in Azerbaijan, Ganja. The att

Woodcraft Magazine

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Woodcraft’s 17th annual “Turn for Troops National Turn-a-Thon” brought in more than 13,000 pens to be distributed to U.S. military personnel deployed overseas. This year’s haul means that more than 200,000 pens have been donated to troops throughout

History of War

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“Montgomery has rather fallen out with historians, and I think that is because historians wanted a sensational thing to [sell]… whereas I think early on Montgomery was in the hall of fame. Montgomery wasn’t a very nice chap either, he was his own wor

PC Gamer

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It’s all coming together. An enemy unit has strayed just a little too close to the edge of the plateau on which we’re fighting. I’ve had my war monk lurking just a few spaces away for a few turns, waiting for exactly this kind of opportunity. I mov

The Field

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The Phoney War was a confusing time for the British Army, spent waiting aimlessly in trenches on France’s eastern marches. One theatre of early World War Two that was decidedly active, however, was the Russo-Finish War. In one of history’s great Davi

NPR

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The Il-20 surveillance plane disappeared from radar over the Mediterranean Sea near the Syrian city of Latakia. Russia's defense ministry says it happened amid airstrikes by Israeli warplanes.

NPR

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Former Staff Sgt. Ronald Shurer was given the medal for his life-saving actions in Afghanistan a decade ago. Now a Secret Service agent in Washington, he's been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer.

MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History

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Frederick Griffin was born in Castleblayney, Ireland, in 1889 and came to Canada when he was 23. Within a year he was working for the Toronto Star, where he would rise from library messenger boy and filing clerk to a coveted position as the newspaper

The Atlantic

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Wagner, the elusive private military company, has made its way to Africa—with plenty of willing young Russian volunteers.

Popular Science

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Insurgents have been using armed drones to attack U.S. troops worldwide, so my co-inventor Alex Morrow and I built the DroneDefender to help protect them. It freezes enemy drones in place by disrupting radio- and satellite-control frequencies, but th

NPR

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France's military says it's mourning the men who died during the rescue of two French tourists, an American and a South Korean.

Chicago Tribune

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Among the thousands in that sea of blue on Wednesday, Feb. 13, who showed up from police departments across the country for the funeral of Milwaukee Police Officer Matthew Rittner was an Aurora, Ill., cop who knew first-hand what a hero this man - bu

Wild West

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Captain Frederick Ryder and 30 buffalo soldiers from Troop E of the 10th U.S. Cavalry pressed forward between the bramble and boulders, only to be met by withering fire from the Yaquis’ .30-30 Winchesters. As the battle began, men on both sides sough

How It Works

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The Carthaginian leadership decided to oppose four Roman squadrons off the southwest coast of Sicily rather than wait until they reached North African waters. Two squadrons formed a wedge formation at the front of the fleet while a reserve squadron f

Traces

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The World War I experience of my great-great-uncle is like the story of so many others: thousands of young Australians were killed, wounded or taken prisoner between 19 and 20 July 1916, in the disastrous first Battle of Fromelles. Percy George Bonto

Heritage Railway

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THE Midland Railway-Butterley will be holding a special commemoration in May to mark the centenary of the death of Sapper Alfred Frederick Amos in the First World War, and the venue is trying to locate his relatives. Prior to joining the Royal Engine

Post Magazine

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Eight years on from the surprise attack, the South Korean island's unhealed scars are still visible in the form of shattered houses, broken furniture and burnt tree stumps. In November 2010, residents of Yeonpyeong, an island in the Yellow Sea that l

Beijing Review

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People gather in Buenos Aires on November 26 to pay final respects to soccer icon Diego Maradona. Maradona, regarded as the top footballer of the 1980s and one of the all-time soccer greats, died at the age of 60 of cardiac complications A televised

All About History

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After taking Acre, Richard set out for his next target, Arsuf. To get there, he had to move south along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea and then traverse the Wood of Arsuf, one of the few forested regions in all of the Levant. Saladin knew this an

Retro Gamer

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It’s not exactly a hard mission, but the level looks great and introduces you to a good variety of objective types, tasking you with taking out tough stealth ships, destroying an enemy bridge and even dropping a bomb to clear out some forest for a re

Vietnam

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Eradicating rat infestation on Fire Support Base Maude may have been Charlie Battery’s primary focus in December 1971, but the artillery battery’s parent organization, the 196th Light Infantry Brigade, narrowly avoided everlasting infamy for what cou

Wild West

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On Jan. 14, 1858, in what became known as the Orsini affair, four exiles from the Italian wars of independence threw improvised explosive devices at the French royal carriage as Napoléon III and Empress Eugénie were en route to the Paris Opera. The b

History of War

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A limpet mine, similar to those used during the operation These contain corrosive acid of different strengths for detonating mines. The colour of the ampoule defines the time that the fuse takes to activate. In five degrees temperature, the red ampo

Yachting World

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Olaf Harken who, together with his elder brother Peter, co-founded the famous marine hardware, winch and rope-handling business bearing their name, died on 21 October, aged 80. Olaf Harken was born of Dutch and Swedish parents in Indonesia at the beg

NPR

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The militant group has been waging an insurgency in Nigeria and surrounding countries for a decade, killing tens of thousands of people and displacing about 2.4 million others.

American Survival Guide

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Johnson had big plans to move to Alaska and live off the grid. In his early 20s he suffered a terminal case of wanderlust, and the Great White North was beckoning. Then al-Qaeda flew airplanes into buildings. Johnson scrapped his plans to become a pr

Sunday Independent

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AUSTRALIAN police announced on Friday that two men had been charged with allegedly running a “terrorist network”, which helped locals to travel to Syria to join violent extremist groups. The men, aged 34 and 31, were arrested in the states of Queensl

Military Trader

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The most meaningful items in my collection are the articles I received from the wife of my Great Uncle, James “Pap” Brown. Pap grew up in a North Philadelphia working class neighborhood, married to my Grandmother’s sister and drafted into the U.S. Ar

Futurity

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On Friday morning, January 3, the United States killed Major General Qassim Suleimani, a top Iranian commander, and several Iran-backed militia leaders, with a drone strike to their convoy at Baghdad International Airport. The strike capped a week of

Finest Hour

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Winston Churchill’s embrace of irregular warfare in the Second World War is the focus of this fast-paced adventure drama animated by a carefully selected but motley team of secret warriors who could easily find themselves in one of Alistair MacLean’s