Instead, the British Army found itself in an intense fire-fight, suffering casualties as they attempted to counter the production of opium. The UK made the mistake of committing insufficient resources to operate simultaneously in Helmand and southern Iraq. In the words of one senior British ...
The American Forces Network, based at Fort Meade in Maryland, traces its origins to a single Army radio station established in Kodiak, Alaska, to entertain isolated soldiers at the beginning of World War II. IGC selected to deliver radio and television programming to US troops worldwide They do...
In theory, this meant a gifted but shabby-looking general like Ulysses S. Grant — a failure in both earlier civilian and military life — rather than the aristocratic ex-railroad president George McClellan, could successfully lead the Army of the Potomac. We admire the uncouth George Patton ...
Published last year by Simon & Schuster,Wife-- set in the literary world -- follows the faithful wife of a famous New York novelist who decides to leave her husband on the eve of his receiving a major book award. The life-altering decision unearths the many dark secrets of their ...
Phnom Penh was all but deserted when the army of Vietnam, incited by Khmer incursions into the Mekong Delta, overthrew the Reds in early 1979. Loans from the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank helped the city reconstruct, along with investment from such countries as France, Australia...
At the peak of American military involvement in World War I in the fall of 1918, the United States Army and Navy found themselves at war not only with Germany, but also with an invisible foe that would ultimately take more American lives than the conflict itself: influenza [23]. In her ...
The US Government invited the Samoans to be included in a meeting where design ideas were discussed for the new flag; The U.S. Army of Heraldry created the new design with the Samoans feedback in mind. The current American Samoa flag was first adopted as the official flag of the ...
"not one U.S. Army division or Air Force group could be rated ready for combat." General Marshall himself called the postwar force "a hollow shell." In fact, as late as 1949, the U.S. had just 12 battle-ready tanks in Germany. Likewise, the evidence in occupied Japan pointed to A...
Considering his service in the U.S. Army, which was racially segregated during WWII, Thompsonwrote: “Being an American of dark complexion and some 26 years, these questions flash through my mind: ‘Should I sacrifice my life to live half American?’‘Will things be better for...
Militants attacked two military bases housing American troops in Iraq last week. The US has about 2,500 troops in Iraq, where Iranian-backed militants have evolved into the dominant military and political force, and about 900 in Syria, which is also home to Shia militias supported by Iran. ...