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Spain's flagship went to war with a third of its crew and main guns that had only just returned from a foreign shipyard. warontherocks.com/cascading-fa...
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For decades, Spain's politicians chose stability over hard choices. When war came, they found out what that trade cost. warontherocks.com/cascading-fa...
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Russia figured out that cutting undersea cables hurts NATO countries without firing a single missile. (Members Only)
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