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I constantly hear that the Russian Imperial Army of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was outdated, poorly organized, and poorly led. How exactly was is outdated, how was it poorly led, what was the obsolete equipment it used, and what more modern equipment were other nations using?
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At the siege of Jadotville a force of at least several thousand Katangese troops failed to inflict a single KIA in the defending force of ~150 Irishmen over a five day siege despite their use of their heavy weapons and an airplane. How is that possible?
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What was the American occupation and pacification campaign in The Philippines like from a moral standpoint, and how did it compare to similar actions from other imperialist countries at the time?
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Why did Coalition forces so easily outmatch the ostensibly sophisticated and experienced Iraqi military in the First Gulf War?
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In North America the United States fought a series of "Indian Wars" to clear the continent of indigenous peoples ahead of white settlers. Were there equivalent struggles in South and Central America?
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Are there any records of cavalry being used effectively between the outbreak of WW1 in 1914 and the end of WW2 in 1945?
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Can the Soviet Union be understood as a projection of Russian political power hidden by a tricky name, or was it an authentically multi-ethnic state?
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A Soviet infantryman named Alexander Bodna said "We were still learning how to fight from the Germans right up until Stalingrad. But after Stalingrad we had nothing to learn." What exactly were they learning?
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