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Lithuania immediately prior to WW2 had an army 87k men strong in 3 divisions, with 500k men in total having military experience. They also had indigenously designed and produced aircraft. How were they able to do/afford this and why did they nonetheless surrender to the Soviets without a fight?	12
[META] How good are Ospreys books about military history? Are they worth buying?	12
Why and how did the decentralised society of the medieval ages which largely used levies and mercenaries transition to a highly centralised society with standing armies?	12
Why was the loss of the 6th Army at Stalingrad so significant?	12
Why did Bulgaria start the Second Balkan War? In hindsight it seems ridiculous to start a two-front war, let alone a four-front war! Why did they think they stood a fighting chance of winning that?	12
What made the Danish think they could take on the entire German army alone after their allies had abandoned them in the Second Slesvig War? Why not just backpeddle on their efforts to integrate that territory into their kingdom?	11
Did the Italians fight at the Eastern Front? If so, how sizable was their force and what was their combat record?	11
What is a "civilization"?	11
During the Cold War: Did students of economics in Soviet Russia also study Capitalism? Or did American students also study Communism? And if so, how tainted were those courses with propaganda?	11
For most of their history both Italy and Germany were split into various independent republics and monarchies. Yet when unification finally came in the latter half of the 1800s, Germany became a federal state, while Italy became a unitary state. Why?	11

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