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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Did a Turkish cargo ship get bombed in the Black Sea during the Russian invasion of Ukraine?
In a Discord server, someone pointed out the following article by Russian state news media about a Turkish cargo ship which was reportedly hit by a bomb on the way from Odessa to Romania:
Turkish Cargo Ship in Black Sea Reportedly Hit by 'Bomb' en…
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Was Robert Capa’s famous 1936 war photo “The Falling Soldier” a faked photo?
The photo in question (Death of a Loyalist Militiaman, Córdoba front, Spain (1936)) can be found here at The International Center of Photography and is also attached below.
The question is: The core power of this photo is Robert Capa managed to…
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Does this map show every car bomb explosion in Baghdad since 2003?
My friend shared this with me, from The AsiaN:
A map of every car bomb explosions[sic] in Baghdad since 2003
Is this for real? Is there any evidence for this?
Some other references:
BBC: Baghdad: Mapping the violence
Maps on the Web
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Did von Braun say "The rocket worked perfectly except for landing on the wrong planet"?
A number of sources including Wikipedia state that when the first V-2 hit London, Wernher von Braun apparently said:
The rocket worked perfectly except for landing on the wrong planet.
This sounds entirely too dramatic and rehearsed. It doesn't…
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Did most of the American riflemen in combat during World War II avoid firing at the enemy?
cynical-c:
Only 15 to 20 percent of the American riflemen in combat during World War II would fire at the enemy.
Is this statistic accurate?
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Was 19 the average age of a combat soldier in Vietnam?
The anti-war song 19 by Paul Hardcastle claims that:
In World War II the average age of the combat soldier was 26... In Vietnam he was 19.
Are these figures accurate?
I'm more interested in the claim about Vietnam, but ideally I'd like an answer…
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Have more people been killed by automobiles than by all wars combined?
I read this claim somewhere recently, and a google search shows that it's occasionally made around the web, but was perhaps more common in the 1970's (many of the stories I find online are people reminiscing over old protests).
At first glance it…
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Did ancient Chinese frontline troops decapitate themselves to scare their foes?
From Wikipedia's page on King Goujian of Yue, a king in Ancient China (~500BCE):
King Goujian's army was known for scaring its enemies before battle by forcing its front line, composed of criminals sentenced to death, to commit suicide by…
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Have more US veterans taken their own life in the last six years than died in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Is this claim by Jill Stein accurate?
I'm assuming that she's referring to US veterans, both for the suicide rate and the combined death rate in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Have the rich Arab states accepted almost no Syrian refugees?
According to speisa.com, BBC News, and sources cited by this skeptics post, and many others, "rich Arab gulf states" accept none or almost none Syrian refugees:
The six wealthy Gulf countries - Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait…
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Have 50 million Eastern Orthodox Christians been killed in the 20th century?
Eastern Orthodox Christians claim that there has been a 'Holocaust' of sorts in the latter part of the 19th century and throughout the entire 20th century (and continuing into the 21st century). But unlike the 6 million Jews killed in Nazi Germany,…
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Were American female soldiers in Iraq or Afghanistan more likely to be raped by their fellow soldiers than attacked by the enemy?
BradyBunch12 wrote in a Reddit post with 3.9k upvotes in What's a statistically proven fact that nobody wants to hear?
While deployed in Afghanistan or Iraq, American female soldiers were more likely to be raped by their fellow soldier than…
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Has Obama or any other US President authorized the assassination of US citizens?
In this interview with RT News, Sean Stone -- the son of Oliver Stone and outspoken critic of US anti-Iran sentiment -- claims that President Barack Obama has "assassinated American citizens" (~4:20 mark).
Is this claim true? Is there any proof…
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Have there been only 26 days of peace since 1945?
There are a lot of claims that there have only been 26 days of peace since 1945.
For example: How many days peace has the world had since 1945?
I believe none, because there has always been some form of war at sometime, in some place. No, in total…
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Was an argument over how many telegraph poles Germany needed to deliver cause to WW2?
I was reading a Batman comic where the Joker claimed:
Do you know what triggered the last World War? An argument over how many telegraph poles Germany owed its war debt creditors!
This piqued my interest, and I looked it up to see if there was…
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