War History
22 Threads
A thread of how the Iraqi army was sneakingly attacked by the US-led coalition during its withdrawal from Kuwait in the Gulf War 1991 and the military strength of the Iraqi army wa...
HOLY HORRORS OF BABUR’S INVASION IN INDIA Religious fanaticism & demolition of places of worship has been a part of Mohamedan History since the advent of the religion itself. Bab...
Mainland #radar. A very short thread. #Falklands #Malvinas 1982 war. Argentina deployed several early warning radars on the mainland during the 1982 war. Mostly Westinghouse AN/TPS...
On this day, exactly nine years ago, I was in Donetsk, Ukraine, witnessing the beginning of Russia's war on Ukraine. Let me share with you what I saw back then. A thread on what Do...
🧵THREAD: On March 24, 1999, NATO began illegally bombing Yugoslavia for 78 days without the approval of the United Nations, dropping more than 28,000 bombs, including depleted uran...
🗡️Vietnam defeated America after a terrible war that lasted for 20 long years (1955-1975). After the victory, a journalist asked the Vietnam president, "How was the victory achieve...
20 years have passed since the US-led invasion of Iraq Back in 2003, Washington pushed India to send troops & help stabilize Iraq After months of debate & diplomacy, 🇮🇳 refused...
Agent of Death or No Green Fingers? NVA & Viet Cong killed around 58,000 US soldiers But careless use of 11 million gallons of Agent Orange has by now likely killed over 400,000...
It's important to not rewrite the dark history of the Iraq war yet this story contains a significant error & major omission about the U.S. military's assaults on Fallujah. cc @ap a...
https://t.co/4mN5KaZz8n yet the officers refused to doubt the integrity of their men... But the confidence was misplaced. The Tungani had been infected with the prevalent disease....
[Srouriyyah conflict with jihadi movement - The Chechen experience] 1) The Chechen experience is similar to the experience of #Afghanistan in terms of the method of infiltration,...
Since Biafra is now justification, and we can use our past pain to express wickedness against anyone. My people in Akwa Ibom suffered heavily from Igbo invaders who slaughtered u...
THREAD Regarding the question "who could stay behind Darya Dugina's death". We need to separate many topics here. 1) Dugina was a devoted and important Nazi propagandist and a par...
Cândido da Fonseca Galvão, also known as Oba II d’Africa (1845-1890) was a Brazilian man who fought in the War of the Triple Alliance (also called the Paraguayan War) and claimed t...
Many wondered: why during the Chechen wars many families opposed the war, while now almost nobody does? Well, one answer is that during the Chechen wars monetary compensations to f...
Despite knowing Japan was about to surrender in 1945, the American ruling class still nuked the ordinary people of Nagasaki & Hiroshima... to demonstrate American power to the Sovi...
Lieutenant Chand Chand recalled, “In Katanga there was fighting. People were being killed. A friend of mine, Major Ajith Singh, was killed. We never found his body.”. One particula...
It was not during the Gulf war, but after Iraq's takeover of Kuwait (which it did in a short, swift move) and much before the West started the Gulf war. During the evacuation, the...
THE WAR ELEPHANT- Elephants are associated with hindus since ancient times. Ramayana and Mahabharat mentions Use of Elephants in war. According to the Ramayan Airawat’s mother was...
Just finished reading Craig Whitlock's The Afghanistan Papers, a book I believe will go down as the definitive account of the war in Afghanistan for generations to come. I'll be sh...
I think we don't talk enough (or at all) about how US bombed Laos 270 Million times, making it the most bombed country ever. There were approximately more than 580,000 bombing mis...
This is what you get for not driving a BTR in Kursk. https://t.co/ERl51G1DyS https://t.co/2lcNpTyfNk
