All things considered, the Egyptian military should hope that if an insurrection blows up, it will happen on the Sinai rather than take on an urban character, as it would be easier to isolate and...
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All things considered, the Egyptian military should hope that if an insurrection blows up, it will happen on the Sinai rather than take on an urban character, as it would be easier to isolate and...
Sure, but in the long term, this probably doesn't change the equation that much, since what's likely to happen is that we'll outsource some of our water intensive industries down there, the Kenyans...
I think the real difference would be a larger pool of identities that someone from a more advanced society could choose from, singular, multiple or combined, whether it's political, social, ethnic,...
Could the Syrian strike be a practice run for the Iranian nuclear sites, or at least a demonstration to Tehran that they could be taken out?
Britain long had a string of pearls to tie together it's Empire, though not all necessarily defined by geography as islands.
Gibraltar, Malta, Cyprus, Suez, Aden, Ceylon, Penang, Singapore.
The...
You can't convert all the Jews and Christians immediately, otherwise you have no tax base.
Usually, the only way other religions can co-exist with Islam is if the authorities are anxious not to...
Cameras don't lie, at least not without leaving clues showing manipulation.
Technology just gets cheaper and better, so it's more a question of where society will allow the expectation of privacy.
A better comparison might be the Iranian and French Revolutions.
The MB achieved power without true upheaval, and without an existential crisis that would have allowed them to rule in a state of...
My demographics are probably wrong, but northern Germany, Netherlands, England and Scandinavia just screams Anglo-Saxon. (And Danes, Jutes, Geats etcetera.)
Basically, people more used to...
I'm not an engineer, but I read that crowbar sized rods could take out MBTs. I suppose it depends on guidance and how high the payload delivery platform needs to be. If sub orbital, a vehicle that...
Simply put, you have to convince them it was their own idea.
As for Germany and Japan, besides the fact they were well on the road to Westernization and modernization pre-War, the shock of their...
While current regimes and their immediate successors aren't irrelevant, when it's clear that they seem ineffectual or passively aggressively resistant to the policies you want to have implemented,...
It is possible, but it depends on circumstances, the resistance of natives to imported ideas, and how they perceive the source.
The Vietnamese are quite receptive to new ideas that will improve...