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The Current Brief 007
Inflatable tanks, false radio traffic, and battlefield illusions. How a small U.S. Army unit helped mislead German forces.
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The Ghost Army: How Artists Helped Deceive Nazi Germany
How the U.S. Army’s Ghost Army used inflatable tanks, fabricated radio traffic, and sonic deception to mislead German forces—and what its wartime record actually shows.
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From RQ-1 to MQ-1: How Retrofitting the Predator Changed Modern Warfare
How the Predator evolved from RQ-1 reconnaissance to the armed MQ-1—and what that transformation reveals about modernization, military operations, and the limits of retrofit claims.
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Operation Eagle Claw: Decision, Abort, and Accountability
Operation Eagle Claw was aborted before the fatal Desert One collision. Six original U.S. records distinguish the mission’s planning, execution and aftermath.
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The Current Brief 004
Able Archer 83: Soviet alerts were real. How close was nuclear war? The records disagree.
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Able Archer 83: What the Nuclear Scare Evidence Actually Shows
What declassified records reveal—and leave unresolved—about NATO’s Able Archer 83 exercise and Soviet fears of nuclear war.
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Paper Balloons, Secret Censorship, and the First Intercontinental Drone Campaign
Cover image: Japanese Fu-Go balloon recovered and reinflated at Moffett Field in 1945. U.S. Army photograph A 37180C (U.S. public domain). Archival source and rights. On May 5, 1945, a group of six civilians gathered near Bly, Oregon, for a picnic. Their encounter with a strange object in the forest would become one of the…
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The Current Brief 002
The Doolittle Raid: How a Military Stunt Reshaped the Pacific War
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The Doolittle Raid: How a Military Stunt Reshaped the Pacific War
Cover image: U.S. Navy photograph 80-G-41197: a B-25 launching from USS Hornet during the Doolittle Raid, April 18, 1942 (U.S. public domain). Source and rights record. Introduction On April 18, 1942, sixteen U.S. Army B-25B Mitchell bombers launched from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet and struck targets across the Japanese homeland. It was the first…
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Fritz Kolbe: The Spy Inside Nazi Germany