Russia’s Threadbare Air Defenses: For a country that has built its foreign policy on the notion of encirclement, Russia is surprisingly bad at defending itself.

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u/SE_to_NW — 1 month ago

The Ming Dynasty's Eastern Depot (secret police): failure to suppress rebellions in the 1600s?

The Ming's DongChang (Eastern Depot) is well known even today (in TV dramas and fictions) as a secret police force maintaining tight control in a pre-modern context. In the early 1600s, when internal rebellions broke out, this internal security was not able to suppress these rebellions at early stages before they spread. What explains the failure of DongChang in maintaining Ming rule?

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u/SE_to_NW — 1 month ago