It's a known fact that the Brits informed the Americans that the Japanese were planning an attack on Pearl Harbor. They came by this information with...
Bottom line is, they're so light that it would be plain dumb to not use them. They're also constantly being upgraded and I'm sure more than a few...
It wasn't that they had bad coordination, it's that they were tied down in the Atlantic. The Germans had their own problems, they couldn't afford to...
The main reason is that the military spending budget is smaller in peace time. You can't justify spending 70-80% of your GDP on arms development when...
At that point in time it wasn't really his country he was thinking about, more or less his wife and child. As the relatives of a "usurper" they would...
The only weapon that leaves a mushroom cloud is an Atomic bomb, also more importantly other weapons don't cause radiation poisoning, which is...
It's not only bullets you have to worry about on the battlefield. There's shrapnel, ricochet bullets, small arms fire, knifes just to name a few....
You can't really compare their strengths, since they never thought against each other. Also the Spartans weren't invincible, they were eventually...
Which "time" are you talking about? If the men surrendered they were now in enemy hands, there wasn't much their own commander could do. Also it...
The most obvious profit was free labor. As far as who profited the most, I don't think it was one or the other. The South was focused more on...
Well, we also brought back a few viruses ourselves, the most notable of which was the STD named Syphilis. The only thing is, it takes more time to...
Surrendering is usually a double edged sword. It really depends on the situation and the commander of the opposing force, for example the Germans...
If you're talking about the battle of Thermopylae, the numbers, according to historians, is more likely 100,000-250,000 Persians to a few hundred...
First time I heard about him, but I heard a few other stories of diplomats creating fake passports to help Jews escape the Nazi regime. The ones...
They had every right, we are so used to thinking of the United States as one country that we forget that it's the union of a lot of small ones, it...
Yes they ran a series of successful sabotage missions on the plant that was creating the heavy water, which set back production about 6-7 months. The...
The capital wouldn't be in Washington, slavery would have lasted a bit longer, maybe till the early 20th century, other then that, I think pretty...
On 20 February 1944, Norwegian saboteurs bombed a ferry that was carrying heavy water and civilians. This was the culmination point of the Allied...
Vash: I didn't say he wanted them to loose, I just pointed out the fact that this wasn't an alliance that was beneficial to any of them in such a way...
Japan sill fought on for roughly around a week after they dropped the two bombs, they probably would have dragged the war out for quite some time if...
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