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Fighting Over Lobsters, Pigs, and Kettles: Here Are the Top 10 Bloodless Wars in Human History

by Jon Guttman and Alex Griffith3/20/20233/20/2023

Iraq War Veterans Refuse To Be Defined By A War They Didn’t Lose

by Sarah Sicard3/17/20233/17/2023

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Why is the Uzi Submachine Gun So Beloved By Special Forces?

by Chris McNab3/17/20233/16/2023

This Dog Sniffed Out Bombs for 5 Years — and is Now Being Honored By Congress

by Claire Barrett3/15/20233/20/2023

Trailblazing Japanese-American Army General Dies at 93

by Zamone Perez3/8/20233/8/2023

A Man, A Medal and What It Takes to Lead

by Todd South3/8/20233/8/2023

World War II’s Desert Victory At El Alamein—In Stamps

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher3/7/20233/7/2023

Few Red Tails Remain: Tuskegee Airman Dies at 96

by Claire Barrett3/2/20233/2/2023

Photo of defused UXO outside a house in Xieng Khouang. Over 30% of the bombs dropped on Laos by the US failed to explode - leaving literally millions of items of ordinance (many of them tiny mine bomblets from cluster bombs) sitting in villages, buried in rice padddies, and scattered over the hillsides. Casualties from UXO are estimated at 12,000 since 1973. A substantial industry in scrap metal has arisen from the abundance of recoverable (but still fused) bombs, both due to its relative lucrativeness (compared with growning rice), and also out of desperation, as thousands of hectares of land has been rendered unfarmable until cleared of UXO. Once defused, much of this war scrap is also put to practical use; cluster bomb casings are used as planters and house stilts, bomb cases for fencing and jettisoned fuel tanks converted into fishing boats.

A Look at the Damage from the ‘Secret’ War in Laos

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher3/2/20233/2/2023

They Say He Burned Down the Reichstag. But Was He Drugged Into Confessing?

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher3/1/20233/2/2023