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YOM KIPPUR — THE FIRST WAR FOUGHT WITH SATELLITES

In October 1973, the Yom Kippur War erupted with shocking violence. On the ground, it was a brutal, intimate conflict of tanks burning in the Sinai, infantry clawing up the basalt slopes of the Golan Heights, and aircrews flying into dense curtains of surface to air missiles. Soldiers fought at close quarters, often blind, guided […]

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THE FIRST DRONE WAR: OPERATION APHRODITE AND THE BIRTH OF REMOTE KILLING

By the summer of 1944, the Second World War had entered a paradoxical phase. The Allies were winning, Normandy had been breached, Paris was within reach, and German defeat was no longer a question of if, but when. Yet some of Nazi Germany’s most dangerous military assets remained stubbornly intact. Reinforced U-boat pens along the

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