According to a 2008 paper called the Two Faces of Death, vaccination and antibiotics completely changed mortality statistics for US military: Throughout America’s first 145 years of war, far more of the country’s military personnel perished from infectious diseases than from enemy action. This enduring feature of war was finally reversed in World War II, … Continue reading Before Vaccines More American Military Died From Disease Than Enemy Action→
In November of 1944, two Nazi German soldiers were detected while… standing on the side of a road in Maine. The two men, German Erich Gimpel and American defector William Colepaugh, had slipped ashore from a German U-boat that had entered Maine waters. “They just weren’t like normal Mainers in November,” Forni said in 2001. … Continue reading Is it 1944 Again? Police Capture Anti-American Militia Stranded on Road→
Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) in an old interview with Wired explained the basic economics of Russian information systems warfare: If you add up all Russia spent in the Brexit vote, the French presidential elections, and the 2016 American elections, it’s less than the cost of one new F-35 airplane. Less cost, more damage should be … Continue reading Why Russia Favors Attacking American Information Systems→