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“A general dissolution of principles and manners will surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued, but when once they lose their virtue, then will they be ready to surrender their liberties to the fi...
Army Sniper School at the Sembach Army Annex in Germany. Photo courtesy Department of Defense Defense Visual Information Center The skill snipers are most known for is their marksmanship. The ability to hit targets as far as a 1,000 yards away (10 football fields!) is not something that...
The problem with this reasoning is that peace is made with enemies who have been either comprehensively routed (e.g. post-WWII Germany and Japan) or disillusioned with the use of violence: not with those who remain wedded to conflict and war. And unlike President Anwar Sadat who truly sought...
When Czar Nicholas was dethroned in 1917, Lenin was in exile in Switzerland for playing a part in some previous anti-czar plots. When he heard of the uprising, Lenin cut a deal with Germany. If the Germans could transport him home, he would get Russia to back out of World War I. The...
Although the next Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev unmasked some of Stalin’s crimes and brought about a degree of relaxation, Lysenko managed to enamor him to his unscientific views and did not lose his grip on Soviet biology and agriculture until after Khrushchev had lost his power. The best...
(Zieger, 44) He failed to identify the secret treaties that were entered between the Allies during the war and Germany’s unwillingness to concede anything from a war they did not lose. When it was apparent that a “peace without victory” would be unattainable all that was left was a ...
Kent Germany, an associate professor of history at the University of South Carolina and a fellow at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, notes that Johnson wore his Silver Star pin on his suit for much of his political career. “In his presidential portrait and many of the images ...