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Bataille navale en mer Noire, les Brûlots sont de retour

Il est amusant de constater qu’à la guerre, rien n’est totalement nouveau, et rien n’est totalement pareil. À la bataille navale de Navarin, le 20 octobre 1827, on avait fait usage de brûlots, de petites embarcations chargées d’explosifs ou de matériaux inflammables et qu’on envoie se promener vers des navires …

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How Wars Don’t End

Ukraine, Russia, and the Lessons of World War I On February 24, 2022, the great Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov and his wife were awakened in their home in Kyiv by the sound of Russian missiles. At first, he could not believe what was happening. “You have to get used psychologically …

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Iran’s Arms Exports Triple

The export of Iranian military products increased threefold in the past year, the country’s defense minister said. In an address to a gathering of Defense Ministry officials on Saturday, Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Ashtiani said the export of products developed by his ministry tripled in the previous Iranian year, which …

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