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An armed conflict between state actors, typically for a political or economic aim. Use this tag for specific wars.
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Has an encirclement ever succeeded with numerically inferior cavalry?
The Dutch republic was at war with the French republic - and losing. A French cavalry unit captured the fleet intact. … That capture ended the war. It's one of the very few examples in history of cavalry capturing a fleet. …
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Why didn't carrier based fighters support bombers?
Why weren't aircraft carriers used to launch fighter planes to support bombers to targets in Germany?
Because it was very dangerous to do. HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse were sank because t …
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So why were medics ever shot at?
bigger (surrounded by wounded) targets
Ambulances are dream targets: shoot one, get three or four hits
This is such a problem in the Middle East, where some people have very limited views on rules of war …
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How common are historical instances of mercenary armies reversing and attacking their employ...
Being in the business of violent enforcement and premeditated murder (we call that 'war'), they had ways to convince their paymaster rethink his sloppy payment policy. … After the first Punic war they tried to forgo payment, which didn't sit well with the mercenaries. …
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What was the cleanest war ever fought?
The Dutch - Scilly Islands War or The 305-Year War comes to mind. … No propaganda was used - a reason why this war lasted that long; everybody had forgotten it! …
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Has there been a war in which the South conquered the North?
The Romans conquered Gaul, parts of Germany and along the Danube.
The Mongols conquered most of Russia.
Ayutthaya Thais conquered the Lanna kingdom in the north (Chiang Mai)
The Japanese conquered …
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Has there ever been a civilization that had no human enemies?
No. That's wishful thinking.
Humans can be pretty violent, to put it mildly. Population pressure will automatically create violence. Productive sites that are relatively save in isolation are rare. On …
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How did pastoral nomads keep winning battles/wars? When did the tide turn against them for s...
The key factors were high mobility and better weapons. The Huns for example were in the beginning almost exclusively mounted. Hunnic infantry appears much later. They were armed with a very powerful c …
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What examples from history are there of a dictator successfully annexing countries by force ...
The Turkish occupation of Cyprus in 1974 fits your requirements. In 2024, it will be occupied successfully for half a century.
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Did the Prussian army commit atrocities?
I also found some references the Prussian army committed atrocities during the Franco-Prussian war. … I'd like to know if there are examples of atrocities earlier, for example during the Prussian-Austrian war or the Prussian-Danish war.
I'm not looking for genocide, that happened in WW2. …
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Has diplomatic immunity ever been ignored in modern times?
Not exactly a world war causing event, but fairly recent: in 2014 a Russian diplomat, Dmitri Borodin, was arrested for drunk and disorderly conduct, as well as insulting the police in his house in Scheveningen …
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Are rural residents more likely to survive large scale war (> 1 million deaths) than urban r...
It's logical you can't find hard data, because your premises are flawed.
Look at medieval cities. What do you notice? A city wall. That's what separated the sheep from the goats, in this case: cities …
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Has there been a war whose declared goal was a mere land grab without any attempts to ethica...
The Romans never went to war, unless it was justified, at least from the Roman point of view. The other point of view was irrelevant. The justified war concept goes back long before the Romans. …
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Was Japan known to be a potential threat to the USA in the 10 year period prior to 1941
It was their influence that kept America out of the war against Germany. Until the attack on Pearl Harbor.
The America First movement was not aligned with the democrats or the republicans. …
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Was the Wehrmacht a mechanized army?
World War II German Military Weaknesses: Logistics
German Logistics: Could the Germans Support an Advance into the Moscow-Gorki Space in the Summer of 1941? …
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