Military/War/Peace

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A displaced woman sits on a bed next to the remnants of her burnt house in Khor Abeche, South Darfur, 2014. UN Photo/Albert Gonzalez Farran, UNAMID
Sahelian Arabs and their Role in the Sudan War
U.S. soldiers walking through rubble in Manila
The Battle for Manila
two German soldiers crouching down, one has his hand in the air holding an explosive device and the other is aiming a gun
Operation Barbarossa
Idi Amin addresses troops during a visit to border regions
Idi Amin's Uganda
An MP looking north from South Korea in the Demilitarized Zone, 2008.
The War That Never Ended: The Legacy of the Korean War
Ruins of Chorrillos after the battle of January 13, 1881. Photograph by Eugene Courret. Glass Plate. National Library of Peru Collection.
The War of the Pacific and the Fate of South America
U.S.S. Arizona on fire after the Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Why Did Japan Attack Pearl Harbor?
people at the League of Nations assembly, 15 November 1920 at the Reformation Hall in Geneva, National Library of Norway
The Versailles Treaty Fight
Three 10th Mountain Division Ski troopers above Camp Hale in the Pando Valley, Colorado in February, 1944.
Skis, Samba, and Smoking Snakes: An Unlikely World War II Partnership
A painting of the Rubicon scene from the mid-nineteenth century: Gustave Boulanger, Jules-César arrivé au Rubicon.
Julius Caesar Crosses the Rubicon
Moskvitch 3 vehicles roll off the assembly line at JSC Moscow Automobile Plant Moskvitch, 2022.
Sanctions on Russia: Impact and Efficacy
people with palestinian flags and people holding flags of Israel
The United States and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, Historical Perspectives
Ferry Derry Corner in Northern Ireland. Text on side of building reads You are now entering Free Derry hands up don't shoot
The Provisional Irish Republican Army
Israeli soldiers stand around their tanks during the Yom Kippur War.
The Yom Kippur War and the OPEC Oil Embargo
Sergeant First Class Major Cleveland points out North Korean position to his machine gun crew, 1950.
Executive Order 9981 and the Integration of the American Military
 SPLM rally in Southern Sudan, 2010. (Image by U.S. Institute of Peace)
Tribal Militias in Sudan
British Fleet Spanish Armada of 1588
1588: the Spanish Armada Still Loses
Ilya Repin's late 19th-century painting, "The Zaporozhian Cossacks Replying to the Sultan"
The Cossacks, Ukraine’s Paradigmatic Warriors
Raising a Flag over the Reichstag by Yevgeny Khaldei (1945).
The Living Ghosts of the Second World War and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
The 114 infantry in Paris, July 14, 1927, Leon Gimpel
November 11, 1918: The End of World War I?
Nigerians use phone booth under a poster against Biafran separatists and their leader, General C. Odumegwu Ojuku. 1967.
“No Victor and No Vanquished” - The Biafran War
The new Terrorism Confinement Center in El Salvador, which opened in February 2023, was built to detain thousands suspected gang members.
Marching Back to the Past: Militarism in El Salvador
The ruins of Cassino, May 1944 - a wrecked Sherman tank and Bailey bridge in the foreground, with Monastery Ridge and Castle Hill
The Nature of World War II
UPA soldiers charge
West Ukraine's War Stories: A New Chapter?