Gen. Jim Dubik told the publication Army Times, the Stinger is a weapon with the potential to be "a game changer," giving soldiers on the ground the ability to contest the airspace, and hinder the enemy's ability to conduct operations [source: Gould and Altman]. The weapon's ...
U.S. Army The Patriot system launches missiles from the M901 launching station. The stations include up to four launch canisters that can hold four different PAC-3 missiles, depending on the type. The launchers are about the size of a tractor-trailer rig. Each get its power from the ...
Khufu's interior is no less impressive than its façade. Intended as a tomb for the king and his queen, its primary purpose seems to be housing their bodies and storing the goods they need for the afterlife. Compact shafts and dark passageways weave serpentine paths through chambers and dea...
NMAM’s aim is to “reflect upon the sacrifices made by members of the United States Armed Forces and to show appreciation for such service.” Instead of a single day celebrating their service, the month of May is an ideal time to show our appreciation to those dedicated to military life....
When someone loses a limb due to injury or disease, the rich functionality once offered by that limb is lost as well. Anupper extremityamputation, involving the loss of all or part of an arm, might mean the loss of the ability to perform job skills or normal activities of daily living....
to consolidate those gains. In a December 2012 interview with McKinsey’s Andrew Erdmann, General McMaster talks about how the US Army has evolved, how war itself has—or hasn’t—changed, what we have learned from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and what the Army must do to prepare ...
THE CLAUSEWITZ DELUSION: HOW THE AMERICAN ARMY SCREWED UP THE WARS IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN (A WAY FORWARD)What will the U.S. military take away from its painful experience in Iraq and Afghanistan? Will it learn the appropriate lessons or will it return to dysfunctional thinking that has cost...
Going to the movies was the worst: the crowds, the dark, the whispering. “I would constantly be scanning for who was going to come stab me from behind,” says Robert Soliz, a 31-year-old former Army Specialist from San Joaquin, California. He was discharged in 2005 after serving in ...
“stupidity” at the time). Maybe it had to do with dropping out of school in the 8thgrade to support his widowed mother, the turmoil of joining the army underaged, earning his GED, and somehow working his way into the middle class to support a family of six in an 800 square foot ...
Money means nothing during a world war because governments will proceed to crank up the printing press to fund their army, thereby causing inflation. Sometimes there's hyperinflation, as in the case with Germany post World War One. After World War One, the German Mark fell from 4.2 marks to...