Tag: War Tactics
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From Treasury Vault to the Manhattan Project
The U.S. War Department borrowed 14,000 tons of government silver in its drive to make the world’s first atomic bomb
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‘You don’t brag about wiping out 60‑70,000 people’: the men who dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
This summer will mark 80 years since the attacks stunned the world. Today, every one of the crew members who carried out the bombings is dead. Here, one of the last writers to interview them reopens his files
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The Iraq War: Amnesia, Phobia, and Learning
The conflict offers valuable lessons on how to fight insurgents, win over civilians, and otherwise stabilize foreign lands.
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Why a Democrat Who Opposed the Iraq War Backs Intervening in Syria
With both Republicans and Democrats split over the prospect, a liberal supporter of American action against the Assad regime says the current situation is neither Iraq nor Rwanda.
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The Surge Fallacy
Having misunderstood the Iraq War, U.S. Republicans are taking a dangerously hawkish turn on foreign policy.