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.
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Did Turkey neutralize thousands of Syrian Army soldiers?
Operation Spring Shield was a Turkish military operation between from February 27 to March 3rd.
A Turkish news source article, Turkey neutralizes 3,000+ regime elements in Idlib, Syria reported on March 4th:
Turkish forces neutralized 3,136 regime…
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Did the Taliban shoot down a US B-52 Bomber on or around April 10th, 2019?
Sputnik News is reporting that an American B-52 Bomber was shot down by Taliban militants shortly after taking off from "Shawrab Airbase" in Afghanistan in the early morning hours of April 10th, 2019.
Taliban* militants have claimed they shot down…
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Did Air Force personnel tell Trump the F-35 is something "you can't see"?
I know there's a question here which addresses the "it is invisible" claim. What I want to ask here is based on the two of the earliest (and most detailed) claims that Trump made on the topic, according to a Task & Purpose article:
Oct. 3, 2017:…
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Does the Iranian Navy have long-range phased array radar systems?
Iran routinely unveils new defense products. Most of them are alleged to be fake. For instance:
1. Fake stealth jet.
2. Fake development of jet engine
3. Fake development of jet fighter
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and, so on. Why they are fake is easily understandable.…
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When was Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl deployed to Afghanistan?
I have not been able to find a clear answer as to when Bergdahl was delpoyed for a school project. All sources I've found agree that he was deployed sometime during 2009, but many disagree on the month. CNN, Wikipedia, podcast 5 O’Clock Shadow by…
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Did the Roman army have more servants than soldiers?
In one of his essays Joel Spolsky (co-founder of Stack Exchange) wrote:
[...] the Roman army had a ratio of four
servants for every soldier.
Is this true?
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Do European countries maintain Air Force on high alert?
A question asked here recently "Is Switzerland vulnerable to aerial threats outside office hours?" kind of implies that this is something unusual. But is it really something unusual in Europe?
Do other mainland European countries maintain their Air…
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Did NATO bombs cause significant damage to Libya's water systems in 2011?
NATO intervened against Muammar Gaddafi in the 2011 military invention in Libya.
The Great Man-Made River is a major irrigation project to supply fresh water across Libya.
Human Rights Investigations claimed in 2011 that NATO bombed the pipe-making…
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Did two Tomahawk cruise missiles crash in Iran during the 2003 war?
According to a 2009 armscontrol article, 10 US Tomahawk missiles crash en-route during the 2003 war with Iraq, two of these in Iran.
The cite a bunch of sources in their article, but none of those I looked at seems to give the info about the…
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Has the US Air Force studied squid to improve aircraft camouflage?
The Hawaiian bobtail squid is known to have a close relationship with a particular species of bacteria that lives within the squid. The bacteria are naturally bioluminescent, which is hypothesized to benefit the squid through…
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Did 30 U.S. Marines die in a helicopter crash between January 24th and January 27th, 2020?
Social media and some news websites are reporting that there was a helicopter crash in Iraq that killed 30 U.S. Marines over the weekend of 24-27 January 2020.
From Google, found when googling "helicopter crash iraq 2020"
This link goes to a Fox44…
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Do US Navy SEALs select team members by performance vs trust ratings?
In one presentation which has gone viral on Linkedin, author/motivational speaker Simon Sinek claims that US Navy SEALs select candidates for 'SEAL Team 6' by rating them by two characteristics: 'performance' and 'trust'.
He defines performance by…
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Did India conduct a fake military strike across the Western border in 2016?
On 29 September 2016 Indian government claimed that they conducted a 'Surgical Strike' (military operation) across the Western border with Pakistan.
Pakistan military rejected the claim instantaneously.
UN observers rejected the claim.
There…
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Did North Korea shoot two missiles over Japan?
How can I independently verify that a missile was launched by North Korea and that it flew over Japan?
Background:
I live in Japan and this morning Japanese and Western news were full of articles about North Korea having fired a second missile over…
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Does the Middle East Institute partner with Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Saudi Aramco?
This newsbud article claims:
Lister was formerly a visiting fellow at the Brookings Doha Center in
Qatar and is now a senior fellow at the Washington, D.C.-based
Middle East Institute, which describes itself as “an unbiased source of…
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