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by Afghanistan has been aptly called the graveyard of empires. It is the theatre where the British Empire and the Czarist Russia played the great game! Czarist Russia pined for a warm water port in the Indian ocean. Control of Afghanistan was the primary means of getting that access to a warm water port in the Indian ocean. After the British and the Soviets, it is the turn of the US to realize that aphorism by learning a practical lesson. After a 20 years’ long occupation of Afghanistan in the name of eliminating terrorism, nation building and promoting democracy, the current US administrat...

Hitler Tried to Assassinate Churchill, FDR, and Stalin in One Place Perhaps no operation was more audacious or had greater consequences to the war’s outcome if it had succeeded than Long Jump. Key Point: The assassination was scheduled to take place in Tehran. In German it was called Operation Rösselsprung, which translates to “Long Jump.” Its goal was to kill or kidnap the Allies’ “Big Three” leaders––Soviet Premier Josef Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill, and American President Franklin D. Roosevelt—when they met in Tehran, Iran, in November 1943. That...

One unnamed official said that while the fire onboard the Kharg was different, it fits the pattern of attacks. 

The walls of Jerusalem were rebuilt during the reign of Sultan Suleiman I, between 1537 and 1541. Photo: Lodo flickr.com It is common to hear the opinion that Israel is the sole democracy in today’s Middle East. Indeed, since the founding of this polity in 1948, the cycle of parliamentary and presidential elections has never been delayed or breached in Israel, whatever the circumstances. On the contrary, each other country in the region has either been an autocracy (for example, Egypt), absolutist monarchy (for instance, Saudi Arabia), a theocracy (Iran) or a republic where coups d’état...

These last-century jets fought ISIS, but not for the Americans.  Here's What You Need to Remember: Although Iran’s American-made airframes are vintage-1960s and 1970s tech, with the right missile arrangement, they could still serve a valuable purpose within the Iranian Air Force. The F-4’s greatest advantage was its speed—Mach 2.5+ in some circumstances, and its thrust. Although not terribly maneuverable, the F-4 could engage and disengage from fights virtually at will by accelerating away from the enemy. The airframe held a number of world records, including top speed, altitude, and ...