Questions tagged [war]
An organized, armed, and often a prolonged conflict that is carried on between states, nations, or other parties.
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Has the US declared war since WWII?
On the Jan 11, 2020 episode of the podcast Lovett or Leave It, the host Jon Lovett said that the US hasn’t declared war since World War II.
Is this true? People like to attack politicians for voting ...
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Were 1.5 million Algerians mobilized during the Algerian Revolution? [closed]
So I was watching a YouTube video titled Largest Armies in the World 1816 - 2019
In the part between 1954 and 1962 4:38 to 4:52 Algeria did not pop up in the top 10 which I found weird given that ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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How prevalent has psychoactive drug use been in the Syrian civil war?
ARA news - a site with English-language news regarding Syria an the Kurdish-majority regions in particular, has posted this item:
Captagon, The Drug Fuelling the War In Syria
where it says:
Half ...
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Was the first German bombing of London an accident?
A 2002 Telegraph article reports:
The first German bombing of London on the night of Aug 24, 1940, was an accident but sparked a war of attrition that would last for five years.
German ...
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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:
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Were some Russians killed in a fight with American forces in Syria in February 2018?
I just read a question on history stack exchange that linked to this Feb 2018 National Review article:
On the night of February 7, “pro-regime” Syrian forces reportedly launched an assault on a “...
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Does Oman evidence point to an (Iranian) limpet mine?
Following the June explosions on tankers in the Gulf of Oman, Iran was blamed. Limpet mines specific to Iran were given as MO https://www.foxnews.com/world/limpet-mine-oil-tanker-striking-resemblance-...
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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 ...
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Were more Americans fatally shot by March this calendar year than died during DDay as the Washington post claimed?
As above - seems either scary or unlikely? Is this claim accurate?
Washington Post: More Americans were shot to death by March 6 this year than died on D-Day
From the linked article:
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Have heroRATS cleared more than 100,000 mines?
From the Washington Post (emphasis added):
The Belgian organization APOPO has been training its “heroRATS” to find land mines for 20 years, and it says the animals have helped clear more than 100,...
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Was the death rate in Boer War concentration camps the same as in Glasgow?
In a widely reported debate on BBC's Question Time, Conservative politician Jacob Rees-Mogg was accused of "justifying" the British use of concentration camps during the Boer War at the beginning of ...
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Does the US Army move tanks in bulk to Ukraine?
I know the site I am sharing is mostly fake news. For instance their latest claim (excerpt below) is not supported by any link to external source. But still, the claim was really alarming and I am not ...
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Did more Vietnam vets kill themselves after the war?
In his song 'Terrorist' the artist Lowkey asserts:
When more Vietnam vets kill themselves
After the war than died in it?
Is this true?
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Did a group meditation in Delhi (1988-1990) influence the world peace? [closed]
Snippets from the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8SYlV3ihl4 at https://www.unify.org/
The concept of morphic resonance was widely promoted by banning the TEDx talk by Rupert Sheldrake: https:/...
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Was the UK's drive to acquire civilian metals to use in WW2 necessary for the war effort?
This question was asked here recently:
Were World War II scrap drives in the United States truly necessary for the procurement of raw materials?
And it has produced some very solid analysis and ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Did Pakistan military and allies rape 200-400 thousand women during the 1971 war?
A 2016 article from the Indian Express, When raped women and war babies paid the price of a new nation, refers to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 and states:
An official estimate of 200,000 to 400,...
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Did Churchill urge the US to ‘wipe out’ Moscow with an A-bomb
I read the following article:
https://www.icij.org/blog/2014/10/churchill-urged-us-wipe-out-moscow-bomb/
from a seemingly reputable source (although it is a blog post).
The key claim:
Privately, ...
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Is the silence of BBC Radio a key test for UK (submarine) nuclear response?
A comment under a WorldBuilding.SE answer to the question What's the quickest way to tell if most of the people on Earth have disappeared? refers to the BBC Newsbeat article Trident: What are the ...
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Was the bombed Barzah scientific research centre inspected by OPCW in Nov 2017? [closed]
Was the bombed Barzah scientific research centre the same as the " Barzah facility" in this 23 March 2018 OPCW report stating (section 11):
the second round
of inspections at the Barzah and ...
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Was there a chemical attack in Syria in April 2018 and was Bashar al-Assad responsible for it? [closed]
Trump said in a tweet on April 8, 2008:
Many dead, including women and children, in mindless CHEMICAL attack in Syria. Area of atrocity is in lockdown and encircled by Syrian Army, making it ...
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Did Churchill come up with the idea of using civilian vessels to evacuate those trapped at Dunkirk, as portrayed in Darkest Hour?
I just watched the movie, "Darkest Hour", about the first few weeks of Churchill's leadership during WWII.
In it, Churchill is studying the map of Calais and Dunkirk when he seems to come up with the ...
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Did no genocide occur in Kosovo? [closed]
British Member of Parliament Llew Smith filed a motion in 2004 which is being talked about today because one of the MPs who signed in support of it was Jeremy Corbyn, now leader of the opposition of ...
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Was the Browning Automatic Rifle kept from US troops during WWI?
On the History Channel show Modern Marvels: Engineering Disasters 2 (S05E30) there is a segment on the French Chauchat rifle. Dr. Jack Atwater, former director of the US Army Ordnance Museum, makes ...
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Which secret societies is JFK denouncing in this speech? [closed]
I have a few friends who are strong believers of the existence of illuminati/nwo threats, and I occasionally am shown a video or two that is supposed to provide evidence of such.
Whether such a group ...
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Did the North Korean Navy sink the heavy cruiser U.S.S. Chicago by torpedo boat in 1950?
I am from an Eastern bloc nation. In my childhood I was taught that the North Korean Navy sunk the U.S. Navy heavy cruiser U.S.S. Chicago by torpedo boat in 1950. The teaching was such:
On June ...
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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 ...
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Chinese behind the 2003 NY blackout
"[There are many people in the defense community who believe that] the Chinese communist party was behind the 2003 shutdown of the New York city electrical grid." (Joshua Philipp, interview)
Is ...
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Did the US (ab)use the “deconfliction channel” with Russia to shoot the Syrian Su-22 plane? [closed]
I just read this piece of news:
... the American plane took off from a carrier (George HW Bush), flew over all of Russia's radar and missile sites in western Syria, shot down the Syrian Su-22 in ...
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Is it true that every McDonald's branch had a bunker in case of war? [closed]
About 10-15 years ago, I heard rumors that in 20 century every branch of McDonald in America had a bunker in case of war with USSR. Bunkers are placed in this way so that they can easily be found by ...
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Can USA's president launch nukes whenever/wherever? [duplicate]
Many people complaining the current (or former) president of USA mention the fact that "he has the ability to launch nukes wherever and whenever he wants", "he has all the launch codes of the nukes", ...
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Does the GRU-43/B “Massive Ordnance Air Blast” weapon cost $US16 million?
I read in the past for the existence of the so called "Mother Of All Bombs" and for some reason I still thought it was a fuel-air or thermobaric bomb. However after the first operational use (here) I ...
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Is “five” removed from military countdowns because it sounds like “fire”?
This question on english.stackexchange.com asks if a word with multiple meanings could be misunderstood and result in death. This answer says:
The word 'five' is generally omitted from countdowns ...
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Did Kim Jong-un order the partial evacuation of Pyongyang in North Korea? [closed]
Pravda.ru reported on April 12, 2017 that Pyongyang was being partially evacuated in fear of large-scale war with the USA:
North Koreaт (sic) leader Kim Jong-un ordered 25 percent of Pyongyang ...
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Did Syria use chemical weapons (in the recent April 2017 ordeal with 30+ civilian casualties)? [duplicate]
My Apple News Feed blew up regarding the missile strike on the Syrian airbase in response to the "Chemical Weapon Attack" - which I put in quotes because while all the major news outlets in my news ...
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Did the Syrian government use chemical weapons in Khan Shaykhun? [closed]
Since April 4th 2017, reports have been released about a chemical attack that is supposed to have occurred in a Syrian town called Khan Shaykhun.
According to the BBC, "[t]he UK's foreign secretary, ...
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Is there any evidence that soldiers turned traitor due to Chinese “brainwashing”?
The Wikipedia article on brainwashing states:
Hunter and those who picked up the Chinese term used it to explain
why, during the Korean War (1950-1953), some American prisoners of war
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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 ...
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Do gun homicides and suicides kill more Americans than war?
In a 2015 column in the New York Times by Nicholas Kristof, the following two claims are made:
More Americans die in gun homicides and suicides every six months than have died in the last 25 years in ...
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Did US forces use tens of thousands of Japanese women as sex slaves after the WWII?
Alternet.org said in a report:
Examples are not hard to find. Before and during WWII, the Japanese enslaved as many as 200,000 "comfort" women, and after the defeat of the Japanese, the United ...
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Are there up to 100,000 people in Eastern Aleppo as of December 2016?
I'm seeing a lot of people talk about 100,000 left and remaining in eastern Aleppo,
EXCLUSIVE: UN in talks to evacuate 100,000 from east Aleppo
A United Nations source speaking to Middle East Eye ...
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Does this photo depict the Sabra and Shatila massacre?
The wikipedia entry about The Sabra and Shatila massacre contains an assertion with this dead link:
The Sabra and Shatila massacre (warning: offensive)
Bodies of victims of the massacre in the ...
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Did the Quran make an impressive prediction about a Roman Victory? [duplicate]
The Quran makes a prediction about the military successes of the Byzantines (i.e. the Romans). Here are two translations used by references below of Quran 30:2-4:
The Byzantines have been defeated- ...
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Were 900,000 US troops injured in Iraq and Afghanistan?
According to the IB Times, 900,000 troops have been injured in the wars in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. They claim there have been that many troops treated at Veterans hospitals through December ...
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Were many Ukrainian and Polish women raped by Soviet soldiers during the WWII?
This[1] site claims:
It's not that the idea of rape as a weapon of war is implausible. Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian, Polish and most of all German women were raped by Red Army soldiers as ...
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Were 700000 Arab Palestinians forced out of their homes by Zionists?
Foreign policy says:
In the course of the war that ensued, Israel implemented a policy of
ethnic cleansing. 700,000 Arab Palestinians were either forced from
their homes or fled out of fear of ...
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Did Russia warn the people of besieged East Aleppo that “If you do not leave these areas urgently, you will be annihilated”?
Stephen O'Brien, head of the Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) claimed that leaflets are being dropped on eastern Aleppo by Syrian and Russian aircraft, warning residents:
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