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Research Last Updated: Nov 18, 2023 - 11:57:39 AM


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Army gets first high-power microwave prototype to counter drone swarms

Epirus has completed initial government acceptance testing of its high-power microwave prototype meant to counter drone swarms, the company said in a Nov. 1 statement.


Nov 3, 2023 - 12:36:41 PM

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U.S. Fighters in the Spanish Civil Wartman2

A review of: Miguel Ferguson, !Brigadistas! An American Anti-Fascist in the Spanish Civil War, ed. Paul Buhle and Fraser Ottanelli, art by Anne Timmons (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2022).


Sep 10, 2023 - 9:34:09 AM

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Why did Mangazeya, Siberia’s wealthiest city, disappear from the map of the Tsardom of Russia?

At the beginning of the 17th century, the English actively strove to infiltrate Siberia. The Tsardom of Russia radically put a stop to it. But, it had to pay for it with the loss of the merchant city Mangazeya, abandoning an important sea trade route through the northern seas for a long time.


Sep 7, 2023 - 10:43:07 AM

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The Soviet remaking of the Pale Jews.

Established in 1791 as the exclusive zone where Jews were allowed to live in the Russian Empire, the Pale of Settlement was a giant ghetto


Sep 7, 2023 - 10:38:00 AM

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Radioactive Tsunamis: Nuclear Torpedo Drones and their Legality in War

Russia and North Korea are both fielding a novel type of naval weapon – nuclear-armed torpedo drones


Sep 5, 2023 - 10:16:06 AM


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