While some scholars have taken this as evidence that the statistics are unreliable, the consistency of the pattern indicates that the Byzantine army, like the Roman army, deliberately preferred standardized numbers. Such standardization offered great advantages in mustering, deploying, and paying a ...
Martin asked, "Why can't they just move all these command posts and ammo dumps further back from the front line and get them out of range?" "You still gotta get that ammunition to the guns, which are closer to the front," Hodges replied. "So, now you've increased the distance that...
Recounting how she came into her third marriage, to artist and musician Steve Bakunas, Lavin said she initially had no interest in another romance: "I didn't think I was very good at relationships. And I found out that it takes work, and I'm willing to do the work, and so is he. ...
Amazonian tribes have used soldier ants to close wounds, breaking off the bodies and leaving the heads in place.Eciton burchellii are blind and can't see what's ahead of them, but they move together in such great numbers that they easily kill the non-army ants, insects, and other small...
This is the way the young soldier who would become Chief Rabbi of Haifa Shear Yashuv Cohen describes, in his book "Between War and Peace", his time as a very badly injured prisoner of war and the first Israeli army chaplain in a British and UN approved Jordanian prisoner of war camp, ...
That was common knowledge throughout the army. When I worked in division headquarters, I saw staff officers working 14 hour days. That hasn’t changed. I still see comments of young officers afraid to go home until the boss leaves. That hasn’t changed. And we’re concerned about ...
Israeli Officer, 2 Palestinian Militants Killed in Shootout More JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian gunmen opened fire on Israeli troops near a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank Wednesday, killing an Israeli army officer, the Israeli military said. Palestinian officials said that troops killed th...
"These precision airstrikes support Somali partners' ongoing efforts to reduce al-Shabab safe havens, degrade the terrorists' infrastructure, and destroy terrorist equipment," AFRICOM said without giving the casualty numbers. The U.S. army said the first airstrike occurred in the vicinity of Gandar...
The Philippines and United States say their activities are for defence purposes only. "There's nothing provocative about training to defend from a nation's sovereign territory," Major General Joseph Ryan, commanding general of the U.S Army's 25th Infantry Division, told rep...
The only specific funding lines broken out for the FY21 Defender Pacific exercise is home station training; it’s unclear if those numbers are included in the total cost. The Army is requesting $150,000 for home stationing training devoted specifically for Defender Pacific and is also asking ...