war + history
- Machiavelli The Florentine
- The man who taught rulers how to rule.
- 2008-09-17 to bestof, history, politics, profile, story, war by bagoly
- The Black Pharaohs
- An ignored chapter of history tells of a time when kings from deep in Africa conquered ancient Egypt.
- 2008-03-12 to bestof, egypt, history, war by bagoly
- The Water Cure
- Debating torture and counterinsurgency—a century ago.
- 2008-02-19 to bestof, history, torture, war by bagoly
- Old U.S. Allies, Still Hiding in Laos
- Four decades after the Central Intelligence Agency hired thousands of jungle warriors to fight Communists on the western fringes of the Vietnam War, men who say they are veterans of that covert operation are isolated, hungry and periodically hunted by a L
- 2007-12-19 to bestof, history, politics, usa, war by bagoly
- Gary Brecher: Om Der Man!
- Last week in the office somebody was saying, "If only we could get all these terrorists in one place and just drop a daisy cutter on them." I've heard that a million times -- the Great White Wet Dream.
- 2007-08-17 to colonialism, history, islam, jihad, war by soobrosa
- War Nerd - Sikh To Death
- The Sikhs have one of the most amazing military histories on the planet. And they're still living through their Golden Age right now. One of the great last stands in Sikh history happened less than 25 years ago, when 200 Sikh militants holed up in their
- 2007-08-02 to history, war by bagoly
- War Nerd - Om Der Man!
- That's the happy tale I'm telling today: the battle of Omdurman near Khartoum, Sudan in 1885, when it was Faith vs. Maxim Guns, spears vs. long-range artillery. Box score: 20,000 Jihadis dead or captured as against 48 British KIA.
- 2007-08-02 to history, war by bagoly
- How three million Germans died after VE Day
- His best estimate is that some three million Germans died unnecessarily after the official end of hostilities. A million soldiers vanished before they could creep back to the holes that had been their homes.
- 2007-05-02 to bestof, book, history, war by bagoly
- Hitler's Drugged Soldiers
- When it came to fighting their Blitzkrieg, they had no qualms about pumping their soldiers full of drugs and alcohol. Speed was the drug of choice, but many others became addicted to morphine and alcohol.
- 2006-08-04 to alcohol, drugs, history, war by bagoly
- Weapons of Mass Inebriation
- When wine goes to war, it isn't always pretty.
- 2006-05-04 to history, war, wine by bagoly
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