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Check out Afghanistan/Iraq war animations by a very talented Brazilian cartoonist, Carloss Latuff at: Wars of the World: Afghanistan & Iraq War Cartoons

Argentina Name: Argentine Nation to the Heroic Valour in Combat Cross Type: Cross Eligibility: Armed Forces Total awarded: 18 Australia Name: Victoria Cross Type: Military Decoration Eligibility: Armed Forces Total awarded: 1 Read the rest at: Wars of the World: Top Military...

You call Merkevas a tank? that's the biggest sh*t I have ever heard. Type99 is much better anytime. Better luck next time dude.

United States M1A2 Abrams Type: Main Battle Tank Status: Inservice Manufacturer: General Dynamics Crew Members: 4 Engine: Muti-fuel turbine engine Read the rest at: Wars of the World: Best Tanks In The World - A Brief Comparison

Hats off to Mark Mazzetti of the New York Times for reporting that it was after CIA Director Leon Panetta’s holdover lieutenants finally told him that, under President Bush, they had farmed out assassinations to their Blackwater subsidiary, that he abruptly stopped the project and told Congress...

In the 1980s and early 1990s, a series of scientific papers published by Soviet scientists and Western scientists (including "rock star" scientists Dr. Carl Sagan, host of the PBS "Cosmos" TV series, and Nobel Prize winner Paul Crutzen) laid out the dire consequences on global climate of a major...

United Kingdom Military Active Personnel: 208,000 Reserves: Around 200,000 Budget: US$ 65.1 billion Percent of GDP: 2.2 Army Active Personnel: Around 110,000 Tanks: 393 Nuclear Weapons: 185 Read the rest at: Wars of the World: Military Comparison - UK, France And Germany

News reports from Pakistan indicate that refugees from the Swat Valley, scene of recent fighting between government troops and Taliban insurgents, have started returning to their homes. Some 2 million people are thought to have fled the fighting, which began this spring when the Pakistani...

Author: Zeeshan Rahat Kureshi This article was also published in "The Palestine Telegraph". The British Empire once ruled over more than a quarter of the world’s population. At its zenith, in the early twentieth century, it included over 20 percent of world’s land area and ruled more...

Good debate. Yes the price tags were old and that's why I have removed them. If someone can come up with current prices I will be thankful. And yes someone suggested correctly that SU 30 should have been there rather than SU 27. Hence SU 30 MKI has been added: Wars of the World: Best Fighter...

The media often report overseas developments, but don’t always explore their underlying causes, which, in many cases, conveniently lets the U.S. government off the hook. The recent internecine violence in Somalia provides a classic example. The U.S. media have focused to date almost...

At a time of severe global and economic crisis, America is even more dependent than in the past on its traditional open-door policy towards foreigners and their intellectual capital. During the height of the Cold War, artists and intellectuals from across the globe flocked to the United States...

On Wednesday 13 February 2008 the newly elected Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd, publicly said “Sorry” for the Stolen generations, the 19th -20th century policy of forcible removal of as many as 0.1 million Australian Aboriginal children from their mothers. PM Rudd’s speech was...

F/A 22 Raptor Country: United States Manufaturer: Lockheed Martin Cost: US$ 137.5 million Status: In service Features: Fifth generation aircraft, stealth technology, ground attack, electronic warfare and signals intelligence Read the rest at: Wars of the World: Best Fighter Jets In...

I've never met Dov Yermiya, a Jewish Israeli peace activist who is now 94 years old. But I read of course the book he published in 1983 in which he wrote with anguish about the torture and other gross mistreatment of civilians he witnessed directly during Israel's invasion of Lebanon the year...

It's been a rocky month for peace, democracy and an end to U.S. global bullying. In Honduras the perpetrators of the end-of-June military coup remain in power. They are buoyed by Washington's "it's-unconstitutional-but-we-need-to-compromise-with-these-legitimate-leaders" wink-and-nod stance...

Hindutva's production of culture and nation is often marked by savagery. On 23 August 2008, Lakshmanananda Saraswati, Orissa's Hindu nationalist icon, was murdered with four disciples in Jalespeta in Kandhamal district. State authorities alleged the attackers to be Maoists (and a group has...

Barton Gellman of the Washington Post has now joined feature writers from Time in aping Cheney’s hagiographer in chief, Stephen Hayes of The Weekly Standard. They all choose to dote on Cheney’s loyalty to his former chief of staff, Irv Lewis “Scooter” Libby, while ignoring reasons why Cheney...

Neoconservatives are great observers of war and warriors, though they are sometimes not in complete agreement about the numbering of the conflicts that they send other people's sons and daughters to fight. Norman Podhoretz, the patriarch of the neocons, believes that the Cold War was World War...

It would be nice to celebrate the recent withdrawal of the remaining British troops from Iraq as the end of the UK's direct involvement in the military occupation there. But such festivities would unfortunately be premature. The killing last Sunday in Baghdad's Green Zone of two armed...