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The Hunt: QAnon, ISIS more alike than you might think

How does QAnon radicalize its followers?

On this week’s edition of “The Hunt with WTOP national security correspondent J.J. Green,” Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Counter Extremism Project, said its radicalization process is very similar to way the terror group ISIS does it.


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America 250: Ironclads: When the US Navy entered the Industrial Age

By early 1862, the age of wooden warships was already living on borrowed time. For decades, great fleets had been built of oak and powered by sail, but technology was quietly undermining their survivability. As Sam Cox, Director of the Naval History and Heritage Command, explains, “The problem started in the 1820s with the French development of guns that could fire exploding shells. And that by itself made wooden warships obsolete.” The only reason wood endured was technical limitation. Early shell guns were dangerous, even to their crews. But once reliability improved, timber hulls became liabilities.
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