AvatarJamie PerryAvatarAvatarRussia removes up to 40% of its tank reserves; “production” is actually modernisation – ISWUkrainska PravdaOpen-source researchers have analysed satellite imagery and concluded that Russia has removed 25 to 40 per cent of its strategic tank reserves, …
AvatarJamie PerryFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoCaptured Weapons in Ukraine Pose Windfall for Iranian Defense Industryjamestown.org - web1983As the second year of the high-tempo, artillery-driven Russian war on Ukraine continues, the battlefield has become a huge cemetery both for Western …
AvatarJamie PerryAvatarAvatarA Ukrainian soldier wondered if the Russians advancing on Bakhmut are on drugs: 'Otherwise, how can they go to certain death?'Insider - Kenneth NiemeyerA Ukrainian soldier fighting in Bakhmut told The New York Times that his unit has sometimes wondered if fighters belonging to Russia's infamous …
AvatarJamie PerryAvatarAvatarHow the search for Iraq's secret weapons fell apartverified_publisherBBC News - By Gordon CoreraBBC News Twenty years after the Iraq war, controversy still rages over whether "weapons of mass destruction" (WMDs) ever existed. How the search for Iraq's secret weapons fell apart
AvatarJamie PerryFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoEastern Front (World War II) - Wikipediawikipedia.org - Contributors to Wikimedia projects"Great Patriotic War" redirects here. For a discussion of the term itself, see Great Patriotic War (term). The Eastern Front[j] was a theatre of World …
One of the most iconic pictures of WW2AvatarJamie PerryFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoThis Happened - February 23: Raising The Flagworldcrunch.com - WorldcrunchOn this day in 1945, the American flag was raised at Iwo Jima to signal the capture of Mount Suribachi, the highest point on the island, by U.S. …
AvatarJamie PerryFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoLittle known story of Black soldiers in Hawaiʻi during World War IIhawaiipublicradio.org - Stephanie HanIn recognition of Black History Month, The Conversation continues to look at the role Black people have played in Hawaiʻi’s history. Hawaiʻi Pacific …
AvatarJamie PerryFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoHow Russia's 35-mile armoured convoy ended in failurebbc.co.uk - By Claire Press and Svitlana LibetThree days into Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a huge 10-mile (15.5km) line of armoured vehicles was spotted by a satellite in the north of the country. The very same morning in Bucha, just outside Kyiv, 67-year-old Volodymyr Scherbynyn was standing outside his local supermarket when more than a …
AvatarJamie PerryFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoUS resistance stiffens at Kasserine Passww2today.com - Martin CherrettRommel in Tunisia speaking with troops riding a captured American-built M3 half-track.In Tunisia the Kasserine Pass remained the centre of contested …
AvatarJamie PerryFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoWho Were the Axis Powers in WWII?worldatlas.com - Kiegan BarronWorld War Two (1939 to 1945) was fought between two military coalitions, the Allies and the Axis. The three main Allied countries were the United …
AvatarJamie PerryFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoA farm boy goes to war... - County 10county10.com - Randy TuckerHe was born near the L ‘Anguille River at the height of the poverty, and desperation of the Great Depression in February 1931. Luther Forrest Tucker …
AvatarJamie PerryFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoHow Did Vietnamese Forces Block U.S. Firepower? With a Hug.historynet.com - Warren WilkinsPitted against the combined arms capabilities of the U.S. military, the light infantry forces of the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army …