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,...
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...
Our government and leaders can no longer imagine a time of peace. For them the whole world has become a zone of conflict, an irredeemable realm of crusaders jumping from place to place, country to country, even time to time. I say “time to time” because I had a student, an Army in...
with Hamas ideologically, they identify with the suffering of their fellow Muslims, just as Jews in North America identify with their fellow Jews in Israel who were brutally massacred and/or kidnapped on October 7 a little over a year ago from their homes and army bases in the south of ...
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 ...
Italian army finally pushed out of Egypt by Commonwealth troops 6 January 1941 Italy's offensive stalls and the Greek counter-offensive pushes them back to the Albanian border POD (Point Of Divergence) The abysmal performance of the Italian military in North Africa and Greece convinces Ger...
The man replied, “No; rather I indeed come now as captain of the host of the Lord”. How often do we go in to God asking the wrong questions? Who was this “captain of the host of the LORD”? A “host” in the Bible is an unseen army, invisible to the human eye that surroun...
In 1935, Hitler established military conscription for all German men, created an air force, and began to build submarines. The Treaty of Versailles limited Germany to a 100,000-man army, but Hitler`s army soon numbered 600,000. Hitler`s plan to seize all of Europe was set into motion on...
As one of the U.S. Army’s first female pilots, Laura paved the way for women in aviation. Laura first served as a helicopter mechanic on her way to becoming a Blackhawk helicopter pilot. Over the course of her ten-year career, Laura completed tours in Germany and Saudi Arabia, and se...