GIs
Sometimes it feels like the most terrifying ideas from science fiction are simply fodder for the future of the military – case in point, word reaching us that the US Army wants to strap its next-gen service rifle to the top of robot sentry dogs. The Army envisions attaching its new Sig Sauer XM7 rifle […]
BAMBER BRIDGE, England — In the early 1980s, a Black maintenance worker in northern England noticed what he thought was termite damage in the wooden facade of a bank. “I flippantly said to my colleagues, ‘You’ve got big termites!'” Clinton Smith, now 70, recalls. “And they looked at me with complete dismay and said, ‘No, […]
BAMBER BRIDGE, England — In the early 1980s, a Black maintenance worker in northern England noticed what he thought was termite damage in the wooden facade of a bank. “I flippantly said to my colleagues, ‘You’ve got big termites!'” Clinton Smith, now 70, recalls. “And they looked at me with complete dismay and said, ‘No, […]
The importance of the Black Sea region was made obvious by the invasion of Ukraine, and the area will likely play an important role in postwar reconstruction. In the summer of 2022, all eyes turned to the Black Sea when a Russian blockade paralyzed Ukrainian grain shipments desperately needed by countries all over the globe. […]
Two decades after outlining the need for a greater military presence in Asia, U.S. forces have yet to be redeployed. The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue between Australia, India, Japan and the U.S. was created to form a common front against China’s disruptive activities in East Asia, but the framework has had a rocky history so far. […]
The deadly firefight lasted more than five hours and was one of the most extraordinary to take place during the Second World War, for the simple reason that it happened not just outside Potsdam or Palermo or Paris — but Preston. By the time the shooting stopped, late on the night of June 24, 1943, […]
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