Good choices, but the articles are disappointing

This Wikipedia tour includes many interesting battles from the 20th century that have been selected rather nicely. Unfortunately, the articles themselves are in many cases disappointing and biased toward the American side of the battle. In some cases this American viewpoint is very distracting and severely mars the exposition. Furthermore, the Midway article lists approx. 30 references out of which only one is Japanese. This reference is also dismissed as "a Japanese account, colored by hindsight and sometimes inaccurate". Similarly, the Mogadishu article lists all the American casualties by name -- skipping the Somalian casualties with "there must have been 1,500 to 2,000 Somalis killed and wounded that day".

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