An organized, armed, and often a prolonged conflict that is carried on between states, nations, or other parties.
Questions tagged [war]
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What is the origin of this photo of an unexploded bomb?
The viral image below purports to show three TV screenshots of the same photo of a bomb, with the source of the being attributed to three different sources:
First image: Ukrainian Channel 5. The text translates to "Russia bombs".
Second image:…
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Is any male over 15 years of age considered a combatant if killed by a drone strike?
In the essay "We have always fought" by Kameron Hurley, she makes the following claim:
We don’t kill “fifteen year old boys” but “enemy combatants” (yes, every boy 15 and over killed in drone strikes now is automatically listed as an enemy…
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Did smiling, female Israeli soldiers pose with "We kill Children" placards during Gaza War?
This image is widely shared on social media.
Did they really do that?
The photo seems real because there is what appears to be Hebrew letters in the background and the uniforms look right.
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Did WWII Japanese soldiers engage in cannibalism of their enemies?
This Cracked article claims that Japanese soldiers in WWII would eat prisoners of war.
The article claims that there were a number of documented cases of Japanese soldiers engaging in cannibalism:
The document helped Tanaka uncover over 100…
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Did the British navy fail to take into account the ballistics correction due to Coriolis force during WW1 Falkland Islands battle?
In Natural History magazine article, Neil DeGrasse Tyson claims the following:
The military normally knows all about the Coriolis force and thus introduces the appropriate correction to all missile trajectories. But in 1914, from the annals of…
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Is there reliable evidence that depleted uranium from the 1999 NATO bombing is causing cancer in Serbia?
This year is the 20th anniversary of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia/Serbia. At the moment, Serbian media outlets are focused on claims that depleted uranium in NATO bombs used during the bombardment might be causing an increase in the number of…
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Did Donald Trump express support for the Iraq war?
Donald Trump claimed in the presidential debates (September 26th 2016) that he had always been against the Iraq war. Most others claim he supported it.
Is there documentary evidence of him expressing support for the war in Iraq?
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Did Christians kill thirty to fifty times as many people in political violence as Muslims in the 20th century?
Blog post by US academic Juan Cole (sometimes linked to in twitter)
Twentieth Century Deaths in War and Political Violence by Religion
Total: 102 Million
Killed by Christians of European Heritage [very large slice]
Killed by Muslims [very small…
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Has France ever won a war?
France is commonly made fun of for not having won a war, for instance when they rejoined NATO and the daily mail made fun of them:
Why did the French celebrate their World Cup in 1998 so wildly?
It was their first time they won anything without…
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Do colour-blind people see through certain kinds of camouflage?
I found this claim in Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins. This is the Google Books link to the relevant page.
Nobody knows whether or how this benefits them, but it may be
suggestive that bomber crews in the Second World War liked to…
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Was superglue invented to seal bullet injuries in Vietnam?
I cut myself recently and used superglue to seal the wound. I thought it was normal but when I tell people that act like I'm crazy. Then I tell them this story:
Superglue was invented during the Vietnam war to quickly seal bullet wounds without…
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Do Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian kids?
My Arabian friend showed me a video of a child getting shot. He also gave me some links after a quick search:
The Independent: I watched an Israeli soldier shoot dead my two little girls
Just Read blog: Israeli soldiers kill 1337 Palestinians
I…
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During the Iran-Iraq war, did the Iranians use small children to trip land mines planted by Iraq?
I'm reading one of Paul Theroux's books, which was published in 2006 during the height of the second Gulf War, and there is a passage in it in which the author apparently claims the activity described in the title of this question:
“We were a…
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Did Pakistan lose each and every war it fought with India from 1947 to 1999?
The speaker in this video says that:
The Pakistani army has lost every war it's fought with India from the original war in 1947 until the latest war in 1999 ...
This is a recurring narrative that is found/heard/seen in Indian media and among the…
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Was this Indian from British India the first to strike Berlin during World War I?
This article (since deleted, backup here) came to my eye recently.
The article glosses over the exploits of a citizen of British India who, purportedly, rose from utter obscurity to becoming an ace flier. A quote of some of the article is as…
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