Why was the Iran-Iraq War important? Why did the February Revolution fail? Why was the French Revolution considered a social revolution? Why did the Russian Revolution of 1917 fail? Why did Persia become an empire under Cyrus the Great? Why was totalitarianism important in the Russian Revolution...
Why is Jordan in the Syrian Civil War? Why did the Palestine Israeli Conflict start? Why did the Libyan Civil War happen? Why did the First Sudan Civil War happen? Why did the Ethiopian Civil War happen? Why was the Syrian Civil War so long?
Taiwan is a part of China. It was seized by Japan in 1895 and returned to Chinese control in 1945, at the end of World War II, as agreed by Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and China. In 1949, having lost in the Chinese Civil War, Chiang Kai-shek and his followers ...
The same rules held in the Gulf War, the Iraq War, and the Soviet and American wars in Afghanistan. They held for conflicts involving nuclear powers elsewhere (apart from some minor skirmishing). And they are holding now in Ukraine.HOW THIS ENDSRussia’s plan A was to conquer Ukraine ...
So I thought basically that in this conversation, we’ll just take each of the lessons in turn and discuss them and comment on them. But first, Glenn, perhaps you might want to start us off by telling us something about Stoltenberg as he was your former prime m...
More than three million people from 41 countries have been sent to fight a war in Iraq that was controversial before it even started. But, just because this war was controversial doesn’t mean it wasn’t filled with remarkable stories of sacrifice and courage. It has, however, stopped many...
In deciding its response, Tehran faced a conundrum: Respond in proportion and trigger an all-out war — Soleimani, after all, was a combination of the CIA director, the commanding general of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), and a State Department special envoy — that would have cert...
to Ken Burns's popular series on the Civil War, to the uses of film and media in understanding the Vietnam conflict, Why We Fought offers a balanced outlook— one of the book's editors was a combat officer in the United States Marines, the other an antiwar activist—on the conflicts th...
The Vietnam War was a conflict that lasted from 1956-1975 which the United States participated in along with the South Vietnamese who fought against the Communist North Vietnamese. Many Americans strongly disapproved of the war which caused many protests and riots. The war lasted 25 years ...
In Iraq, units tasked with defending Ramadi had a vast numerical advantage over ISIS. But the evidence suggests the mix of forces – police, army and tribal militia – was poorly led, suffering from low morale and in some instances poorly equipped. “In the 11 months since Mosul fell, ...