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Eastern Front of WW1 animated: 1914
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When the US Army uses "enhanced interrogation" on an American soldier
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Britain's Foreign Secretary David Cameron, in Kyiv, promises Ukraine aid for 'as long as it takes'
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Free Companies: The age of mercenary companies
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Ukraine pulls US-provided Abrams tanks from the front lines over Russian drone threats
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Russia's meat grinder soldiers - 50,000 confirmed dead
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China is battening down for the gathering storm over Taiwan
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Mass use of guided bombs driving Russian advances, says Ukraine
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In the years after World War II, neutral, peace-loving Sweden embarked on an ambitious plan – build its own atomic bomb
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Wirecard fugitive Jan Marsalek helped run Russian spy operations across Europe
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Kyiv confirms Ukrainian drones destroyed six Russian planes at air base, as many as three sites blasted
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Finland's response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine has been to move away from policy of self-reliance and embrace the alliance
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Danish military says a missile failure on a navy ship has triggered the closure of airspace and shipping lanes near a major shipping strait off the Danish coast
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Norway to increase number of conscripted soldiers from 9,000 to 13,500 – Russia's attack on Ukraine has given northern European countries an impetus to beef up their militaries
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The Ladoga was the Soviet Union’s plush nuclear-war command vehicle. A drone just blew one up in Eastern Ukraine.
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Some NATO countries ‘don’t understand urgency of stopping Russia,’ says Swedish FM
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A retrospective on the Baltic road to NATO
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Collecting the dead Russia left behind
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The creeping politicization of the US Military
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Israel’s ultra-Orthodox don’t serve in its armed forces. That’s getting harder than ever to justify and threatens Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition.
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Brazil's military leaders told police Jair Bolsonaro involved in a plan to reverse 2022 election result
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Russia awakes to biggest attack on Russian soil since World War II
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Denmark wants to conscript more people for military service – including women, for the first time
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A man who crashed a snowmobile into a parked Black Hawk helicopter is suing the government for $9.5M
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Sweden officially joins NATO, ending decades of post-World War II neutrality
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Ukrainian forces strike Russian troops at Avdiivka coke plant using AASM Hammer guided bombs
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World War II ‘rumor clinics’ helped America battle wild gossip
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Salvage of the century: The lost WWII gold of HMS Edinburgh
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy in bind over how to draft more troops as Russian forces advance
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Germany to investigate Russia’s apparent interception of military talks on Ukraine
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Packages seized by the Royal Navy from a Faroese cargo ship bound for Denmark during the Napoleonic Wars opened – previously hidden away in the National Archives
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Weird Wings: The M-21, an A-12 (SR-71 Blackbird predecessor) modified to launch a drone for recon missions over China in the 60s
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Ukrainian forces withdraw from Avdiivka; megathread for news/updates/discussion of Russian invasion of Ukraine - February 17
There hasn't been a megathread for a while so I wanted to post the latest news as well as a couple other pieces of news from the past week along with a couple articles providing additional...
There hasn't been a megathread for a while so I wanted to post the latest news as well as a couple other pieces of news from the past week along with a couple articles providing additional context.
The latest piece of news is Ukrainian forces withdraw from Avdiivka to avoid encirclement, army chief says. This is very concerning and I hope encourages people to continue urging their politicians to find ways of supporting Ukraine in a larger capacity than they have in recent months.
The other day there was also this article titled Rate of Russian military production worries Europe's war planners. If you don't have time to listen to Perun's hour-long PowerPoint from 4 months ago on the same subject (Russian Defence Production 2023 - Can Russia keep up with equipment attrition in Ukraine?), then The Guardian article is a decent primer.
It also links to a Foreign Affairs article published in January of 2024 going into more detail about Russia's economic expenditures and its uneven footing: Putin’s Unsustainable Spending Spree: How the War in Ukraine Will Overheat the Russian Economy (Archive.is link). This is a particularly interesting article as it details the expenses as a percent of GDP that have recently made the rounds in the news this week, as well as how military spending as spurred growth in some industries, while others also tangentially related are lagging behind despite the government's stimulus. Additionally, Russia is spending the equivalent of billions of dollars on annexed regions of Ukraine. It then details the consequences of this substantially increased spending and increased wages that may be dislocating the civilian economy in favor of maintaining enough supplies for a further extended attritional war.
The Guardian article say that:
New analysis by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) estimates that Russia has lost 3,000 armoured fighting vehicles in the last year and close to 8,800 since the war began.
Unable to produce anywhere near that number of vehicles, Russia has mainly refurbished ageing hardware ...
Russian factories claimed to have delivered 1,500 main battle tanks this year, of which 1,180 to 1,280 had been reactivated from storage, according to IISS. Those numbers, along with reactivated armoured personnel carriers and infantry fighting vehicles, meant Russia would “be able to sustain its assault on Ukraine at current attrition rates for another two to three years, and maybe even longer”, the group said.For reference, the landing ship that was recently destroyed by Ukrainian Unmanned Surface Vessels (Magura V5 sea drones), Caesar Kunikov, could carry 10 main battle tanks and 340 troops or 12 armored personnel carriers and 340 troops. Though it's not clear what role that ship was playing, as trains play a significant role in deploying men and materiel to the frontlines.
Finally, an article I'd meant to post several months ago to just sort of talk about in general terms: What would happen if Russia invaded Finland? I went to a giant war game in London to find out. Has anyone ever participated in war gaming, have a background or took a class on game theory, or enjoyed the history of tabletop gaming that dates back to this war-time activity? Just interested in what people have to say.
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The US Army is slashing thousands of jobs to focus on Russia and China
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French president Emmanuel Macron says sending troops to Ukraine cannot be ruled out
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Hungarian MPs have overwhelmingly ratified Sweden's bid to join NATO in a long-delayed vote which paves the way for the Nordic nation's membership
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Active US Air Force serviceman self-immolates himself in front of the Embassy of Israel
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How Finland survived a 1,000,000+ Soviet invasion (1939-1940)
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Preparing for war, social unrest or a new pandemic? Chinese companies are raising militias like it’s the 1970s.
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