/u/bopollo's posts in /r/AskHistorians
How did people and policy-makers react to Eisenhower's "military industrial complex" speech? It seems like it didn't have much of an effect. Why is that?
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British PM Benjamin Disraeli was born Jewish. How did people in Britain and around the world react to this fact?
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During WW2, how would non-combatant aircraft and ships travel safely through the war zones? i.e. commercial/diplomatic flights to/from Switzerland, American diplomatic flights pre-1942, Red Cross, Swedish shipping...
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20 year limit just expired on the start of the First Chechen War - How has history judged Russia's casus belli?
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Is there any link between Jesus' whipping of the money changers in temple, and his trial/execution soon(?) after?
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I've read that the effectiveness of strategic bombing in WW2 was grossly overestimated. If so, how did this effect later air power strategy/policy? Was building all those B-52s/carpet bombing Vietnam/etc partly the result of a misunderstanding/propaganda from the Air Force industrial complex?
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