Demilitarized Zones In The World
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in defence economics, International law, laws of war, war and peace
B-29 AIR RAID BOMBING IN TOKYO FILM NARRATED BY RONALD REAGAN “TARGET TOKYO”
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
And so it begins: UK Government mulls emergency measures that would enable networks to switch off your electricity without warning or compensation
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White Defeat in the Russian Civil War
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The Red versus White struggle was decided on the battlefield, but the outcome of civil wars also depends on the contenders’ ability, through politics and propaganda, to convince people to fight for them (or at least not to raise arms against them). In this field, governance, the Whites were a spectacular failure. Consequently, no matter how successful their main military thrusts were, when the tide turned and advances morphed into retreats, the Whites had nothing to fall back on. Hence the precipitous collapse of the AFSR, the North-West Army, and Kolchak’s Russian Army.
This is not to say that the Whites did not try to compete with the Bolsheviks on the political plane—however much their background in the Russian military tended to incline them to regard “politics” as a dirty word (a feeling amplified by the disasters of 1917). Both Kolchak and Denikin actually elaborated political programs in 1919 that…
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The Red Army of the Russian Civil War
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The supreme achievement of the Soviet government in the civil-wars years: the creation of the Red Army. Much of the credit for this has, rightly, been apportioned to war commissar L. D. Trotsky.
The foregoing account of the 1919 campaigns concentrated on the White advances because the Reds tended not to make grand strategic decisions in that year. Rather, they reacted to the probings of their opponents and took advantage when the latter collapsed. That, however, is not to downplay the supreme achievement of the Soviet government in the civil-wars years: the creation of the Red Army. Much of the credit for this has, rightly, been apportioned to war commissar L. D. Trotsky.
The Red Army was born out of the disintegration of the Imperial Russian Army, which the Bolsheviks had done so much to foster (regarding the army as a nest of real and potential counterrevolutionaries). Prior to October…
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Global warming may have started before industrial revolution, study says
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Coral reef [image credit: Toby Hudson / Wikipedia]
We can’t have effects preceding causes, so something seems to be amiss with the ‘human-caused warming’ dogma, if this study is correct.
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Studies of coral reefs in the Paracel Islands suggest that the South China Sea started warming up in 1825, at the start of the industrial revolution, according to a study by Chinese scientists.
That was the year the world’s first railway began operating in England and most ocean-going ships still used wind power, says The South China Morning Post.
Man-made carbon dioxide emissions could not fully explain such an early rise in the warming trend, they said in a peer-reviewed paper published in Quaternary Sciences on Friday.
The Paracel coral record “will fill in some important gaps in global high resolution marine environment records and help us better understand the history of environmental change in tropical…
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PETA Says Animals Are Offended – Are We Getting Dumber?
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in liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Charles Ponzi: Natural Born Swindler
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in economic history, economics of crime, financial economics, law and economics
Creepy footage Surfaces from @BernieSanders 1980s Public Access Show
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4 TIMES Men and Women Faced Off in Tennis @aniobrien @HJoyceGender
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in discrimination, gender, labour economics, sports economics Tags: evolutionary biology, sex discrimination, Tennis
Ancient Rome’s Road System: The Rise and Fall of Rome
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in economic history, transport economics Tags: Roman empire
Legal Systems Very Different From Ours. David Friedman, Keith Knight, & Patrick MacFarlane
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in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, development economics, economic history, economics of crime, history of economic thought, law and economics, property rights
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