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Urban Warfare Project Case Study #17: Battle of Shanghai
Liam Collins, Jayson Geroux, John Spencer and Amanda Zhao | 10.28.26
Liam Collins, Jayson Geroux, John Spencer, and Amanda Zhao | 10.28.26 The Battle of Shanghai...
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Ben Blane and Robert G. Rose | 10.26.26
“We are not going to get involved militarily in any way on the Island of Formosa,” announced...
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Michael Carvelli | 10.23.26
Israel’s renewed military presence in southern Lebanon puts an old military problem back in...
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Paweł Witczak | 10.21.26
Mika, Poland, November 15, 2025. Night has already fallen over the Masovian countryside when an...
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Antonio Salinas | 10.16.26
Throughout the sanguine annals of military history, very few truths have endured. However, one...
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Jordan Bower, Nico Martire and James L. Andreasen | 10.14.26
Inside a bunker, a pilot operates a first-person-view drone, unable to see the aircraft directly....
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