Фотоальбомы немецких солдат. (Photo albums of German soldiers.) MeFi, Photo albums of German soldiers: “Photo albums of German soldiers. Fully scanned photos from the personal albums of German soldiers from the Second World War and the years preceding it.”
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Photo albums of German soldiers
February 4th, 2008
Tags: germany · history · photography · war · wo2
Anniversary Blockade of St. Petersburg
January 29th, 2008
Enlish Russia, WW2 Like Reconstruction: “A few days ago an anniversary for the blockade of St. Petersburg city during the World War 2. For more than two years the city was in the tight circle of German troops. The front line was already in the suburbs and the downtown was bombed constantly. People suffered from [...]
Tags: russia · st. petersburg · ussr · war · wo2
Emoticons during wartime
December 5th, 2007
New Yorker, Emoticons during wartime: :-w Our current leader speaks with forked tongue.
Wired: How Technology Almost Lost the War
December 3rd, 2007
“Timers from washing machines and dryers, like these for sale at a parts store in Baghdad’s Rasheed Street district, are used by insurgents to detonate improvised explosive devices.” Noah Shachtman, How Technology Almost Lost the War: In Iraq, the Critical Networks Are Social — Not Electronic: “(…) The Defense Department wasn’t blind to the power [...]
Tags: afghanistan · iraq · networks · usa · war
Jeremy Scahill – Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army
August 1st, 2007
There are 48,000 ‘security contractors’ in Iraq, working for private companies growing rich on the back of US policy. But can it be a good thing to have so many mercenaries operating without any democratic control? An extract from Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army, by Jeremy Scahill.
Tags: afghanistan · blackwater · iraq · politics · usa · war
Battlefield Extraction Assist Robot
June 10th, 2007
BBC: “The US military is developing a robot with a teddy bear-style head to help carry injured soldiers away from the battlefield.” (via) Zie ook Robot Magazine.
World’s Biggest Tanks
March 6th, 2007
Dark Rosted Blend: “It all started in the Fourteenth Century. We have a record of a “pre-tank” machine, called “Fighting Unicorn”.”
Frontline: News War
February 14th, 2007
Frontline: “In a four-hour special, News War, FRONTLINE examines the political, cultural, legal, and economic forces challenging the news media today and how the press has reacted in turn.” Part 1: Secrets, Sources & Spin.