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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Does war accelerate invention?
War is often said to be the mother of invention. However does the statement actually hold water? Is there statistical evidence suggesting that the rate of inventions increase during wartime periods?
This idea has been a topic of significant…
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Did the Free Syrian Army take a (pictured) toddler hostage?
On Al-hadath News is this picture posted:
Warning: Disturbing image
and claims that the Free Syrian Army posted this picture claiming it is "[their] youngest hostage."
Is it true that the baby was taken hostage and photographed with a gun…
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Did Ukraine set up Russia on the MH17 incident?
Rebels shot several planes of Ukraine in the last days, after they got their hands on that missile system.
Some say that because of this, Ukraine flight control specifically gave directions to the plane to fly within that zone, knowing that the…
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Did the Germans invent Radar first?
The popular view of the Battle of Britain is that one of the critical factors that enabled the British to win it was Watson-Watt's invention of Radar. The History Learning Site, for example, summarises like this:
The radar invented by Robert…
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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 a "KUB-BLA" AI powered "suicide" drone fly into Ukraine?
The Daily Star (a not particularly reputable source) has reported that a so-called AI-based "Suicide Drone" has been spotted in Ukraine. (Please excuse all the click-bait. The website is atrocious).
Ukraine’s Internal Affairs Minister Anton…
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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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Were majority of those killed in the Sabra And Shatila Massacres women, children and the elderly?
This claim appears on The New York Times:
ON the night of Sept. 16, 1982, the Israeli military allowed a right-wing Lebanese militia to enter two Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut. In the ensuing three-day rampage, the militia, linked to the…
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Are there 'friendly' fire restrictions programmed into exported (american) weaponry?
There appeared a claim, probably in context of the turkish-russian incident:
This seems too far off to be true, but it got me wondering whether nations implement precautions to prevent 'friendly' fire who export sophisticated weapons such as…
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Were more than half of the US soldiers who served in Gulf War I on permanent medical disability by 2000?
Doug Westerman of the Centre for Research on Globalization writes in Depleted Uranium – Far Worse Than 9/11:
Just 467 US personnel were wounded in the three-week Persian Gulf War in 1990-1991. Out of 580,400 soldiers who served in Gulf War I,…
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Did Assad use chemical weapons in Syria?
Related to Were chemical weapons being used in the civil war in Syria before 2014?.
While the consensus at the time seemed to be that the government was using chemical weapons (this in particular was the position of the US government), and that…
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Did war in the 20th century murder more than "all previous deaths"?
In the chapter on Statism: Our Condition of the 1983 version of the New Libertarian Manifesto by Samuel Edward Konkin III the following can be found,
In the 20th Century alone, war has murdered more than all previous deaths; taxes and inflation…
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Were 90% of Mariupol's apartment buildings destroyed during 2022 battles?
So I've encountered links to this 2023 Meduza publication on Politics.SE, which states:
In 2022, when the city was the site of a months-long battle between invading Russian forces and the Ukrainian army, 90 percent of Mariupol’s apartment buildings…
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Does Elon Musk's Starlink system play a significant role in the Russian invasion of Ukraine?
The DW article Ukraine is using Elon Musk's Starlink for drone strikes about the use of Starlink to provide internet in Ukraine is suggesting that it is playing a role in, e.g., the way president Zelenskyi is able to make live calls to so many…
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Did Turkey use poison gas against the Kurds in 1937-38?
Baki Tezcan
writes in an LA Times opinion piece:
In the 1920s and ’30s, Kurdish citizens of Turkey were brutally massacred in military responses to rebellions. Those uprisings were also conveniently used by the ruling regime to suppress political…
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