Mankind has been driven towards war since…well, ever, I guess. Conflict History was released recently as an interactive map with all the major military conflicts, showing that, despite the advances our civilization made in the last couple of centuries, war is far from being something of the past. Al Qaeda’s worldwide attacks, showed here by The Economist, made the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan “justifiable”, but , as we can see on CNN‘s and The New York Times visualizations, the cost of that “response” has been high – too high.
Conflict History [Interactive]
Al-Qaeda attacks: Killing in the name of Islam
Home and Away: Iraq and Afghanistan War Casualties [Interactive]
A Year in Iraq and Afghanistan – 2010 edition
American Forces in Afghanistan and Iraq [Interactive]
Today’s video pick:
Max Planck Research Networks Prototype
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