An organization authorized by its greater society to use lethal force, usually including use of weapons, in defending its country by combating actual or perceived threats.
Questions tagged [military]
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Are US-sold aircrafts not able to shoot on Israeli targets?
According to this article,
the old U.S. system ... automatically identified all Israeli targets
as a "friend," preventing Turkish fighter jets from firing at them,
even if Turkish pilots were ordered to do so.
and the Turks have to develop…
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Do loopholes in the Great Wall face the China side?
There is a pseudoscientific theory popularized by Russian authors Fomenko and Nosovsky which, among other things, claims that the Great Wall of China had been built by peoples living to the north of it who were more advanced than the Chinese at the…
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Did Seal Team Six fire more rounds in one year than the entire Marine Corps's ammunition allowance?
In season 2, episode 7 of Black Ops, the narrator asserts that
In one year, Seal Team Six fired more rounds than the entire Marine Corps ammunition allowance.
Thats a pretty impressive statistic, but it kind of comes out of the blue and has no…
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Could we buy every homeless person a house with the money spent on the F-35?
I've come across a number of articles that suggest that if we took all the money that we spent on the F-35 jet, every homeless person in the US could have been given a $600,000 home:
With the vast amounts spent so far on the aircraft, the United…
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Is there evidence to support that Area 51 was just a cover-up for a much larger operation?
Area 51 is frequently mystified in popular movies, stories, alien investigations, and sometimes, even the media. If the US really wanted to keep this a secret, why would they allow the media to mystify it so much. Is there any evidence to support…
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Did the military start the "No alcohol after vaccines" meme?
The Travel Doctor (a chain of clinics that does vaccination for travellers) claims
Can I drink alcohol after vaccines?
[Don't drink too much after Japanese Encephalitis vaccine]
The myth about "no alcohol after receiving vaccines" may have begun
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Is the US Army Field Manual 30-31B a forgery?
Wikipedia describes content of the US Army Field Manual 30-31B:
It identifies a strategy of tension involving violent attacks which are then blamed on radical left-wing groups in order to convince allied governments of the need for…
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Can the Taliban detect drone targets with a camcorder?
The New York Times today published an article in which senior Taliban commander Wali ur-Rehman claims the Taliban now uses camcorders to scan cars and other potential drone targets.
Mr. Rehman explained that the camera could somehow detect…
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Does the United States Army pay $1,200 per civilian killed to their family?
In Season 4, Episode 1 of This Is Us, character Cassidy Sharp
is soldier on deployment in Afghanistan who becomes involved with a
drone strike on a suspected bomb-maker.
The after the drone strike it is revealed that eight civilians were
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Has the US killed close to half a million since 9/11?
The Brookings Register reports a half a million people have been killed by the US since 9/11. From A different path: Let’s try nonviolence:
According to the Watson Institute at Brown University, the U.S. has
spent $6 trillion on wars and killed…
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Was the Browning Automatic Rifle kept from US troops during WWI?
On the History Channel show Modern Marvels: Engineering Disasters 2 (S05E30) there is a segment on the French Chauchat rifle. Dr. Jack Atwater, former director of the US Army Ordnance Museum, makes the claim that American soldiers were issued…
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Did a US Navy ship demand that a lighthouse get out of its path, thinking it was another ship?
I've known for some time the joke about the American military ship insisting that another ship moves out of their way just to discover it was a lighthouse. I've always thought it was simply a joke, but today this video appeared in my Facebook feed.…
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Is (or was) there a military service where women are officially addressed as "Mister"?
In Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, a female officer, Lt. Saavik, is frequently addressed as "Mister Saavik". It is claimed that this follows some real-life military (in particular, US Navy) tradition (Source 1, Source 2, Source 3):
In the US Navy…
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Is Netherlands no longer able to start war without permission from Germany?
I stumbled upon this article, dated April 14 2016, titled "Germany Is Taking Over the Dutch Army".
The article says that
Huge portions of the Dutch military are being merged with the German
Army, a process that many want to see rolled out across…
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Did the fallout from American nuclear tests kill hundreds of thousands of American civilians?
A recent paper has been making the social media rounds, that estimates the number of American deaths due to radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons testing to be between 340,000 and 690,000 between 1951 and 1973.
Here is one such article in Quartz:…
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