Trumping medieval cruelty?
New research sheds light on the historical use of waterboarding and its re-emergence at the highest levels of Trump’s administration.
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Imperial Stormtroopers: crack troops or crap troops?
Mediaeval Historian Rory Cox considers the Empire’s conscription standards The faceless body armour undoubtedly lent the Stormtroopers an aura of menace and combat capability. But recruiting troops for a generation…