Zeppelins: the beginning of modern warfare
While the Blitz and the Battle of Britain are well documented and constantly appraised, people rarely talk about the 'First Blitz', the Zeppelin bombardment in World War One. But Dr Hugh Hunt, a Cambridge professor of engineering and the presenter of …
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For Ten Minutes, Mario Meets Modern Warfare Yet Again
The latest episode of the gritty and gripping web series Mario Warfare is here, this time focusing on the Smash Club, where Mario has to fight… actually, just watch it. I don't want to spoil too much. If you haven't been following this great series …
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Horrors of chemical warfare in the modern age
On the battlefields of the Somme and Passchendaele, so the story goes, a young gefreiter – or corporal – in the Imperial German Army was so traumatised by his experiences in the Great European War that it changed his views forever. Serving in the …
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Call of Duty games discounted on Xbox Live this week
The Games on Demand versions of Call of Duty 2, Call of Duty 3, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Call of Duty: World at War are available for 25 percent off; Call of Duty Classic, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 are 33 …
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1939 Gumps comic strip predicts modern drone warfare
[high res] Everyone knows about this comic book, which Dick Cheney read as a boy and later used as the basis of his foreign policy during the Bush administration. Here's another comic, from 1939, that predicts modern drone warfare. (Thanks, Randy Regier!).
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