The story of the Jabidah Massacre. In the 60s, precisely 1968, the Philippines were exercising their claims to the Malaysian territory of Sabah which was a vast land that formed a part of the newly created Malaysia and was interpreted by the Philippine Government as rightfully theirs. They had drawn up plans to destabilize the […]
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The 2nd Gulf of Tonkin Incident – Did it happen?
People talk a lot about the horrors of Vietnam. The constant state of fear was common among all soldiers stationed there in the 60s and 70s. One can only imagine the feeling of hearing the trees speak Vietnamese, or falling into a snake pit, or running into any other booby traps. But this begs the […]
Pyke Ice Ships that (Almost) Won the War
When a government is at war, they’ve got to pull out all the stops. And sometimes, that means listening to ideas that would ordinarily seem totally insane. Or, in the case of Lord Mountbatten during the Second World War, an actual mad scientist. This is how gigantic Pyke aircraft carriers made of ice won the […]
Juan Pujol – Britain’s Master Spy
Playing Both Sides From The Start Juan Pujol, the man who would later become Agent GARBO, was born in 1912 to a liberal family in Barcelona. He was conscripted into a cavalry unit when he turned 18 but quickly discovered that a soldier’s life was not for him. When the Spanish Civil War broke out […]
The First Air-cushion Vehicle – Levkov’s Hovercraft
If you look up “first hovercraft” online, the top results state that the first viable hovercrafts were developed by British inventor Christopher Cockerell in the 50s and 60s. Unless you look hard, you won’t see the name of a Soviet inventor: Vladimir Levkov. This bright spark invented a working hovercraft in the early 1930s, and […]
Grigory Kulik – The Worst General Ever
Ever look at someone in an authority position and think: how did someone so useless get so much power on Earth? It’s a story as old as time, but they probably have connections. The more powerful their friends, the more they can get away with, and when you’re mates with the Bolshevik Tsar Joseph Stalin, […]