After the October Revolution of 1917 and the start of the Civil War of 1917–1922 he was conscripted into the Red Army, taking part in the Polish-Soviet War of 1919–1921. In peacetime he quickly rose through the ranks, becoming a regimental commander by 1930. In this position he showed...
Lincoln closely supervised the war effort, including the selection of generals and the naval blockade that shut down the South's trade. As the war progressed, he maneuvered to end slavery, issuing the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863; ordering the Army to protect escaped slaves, encouraging ...
Ashok Raj Sigdel Chief of Army Staff for Nepal RS Sharma Non-Executive Chairperson of the Open Network for Digital Commerce Abdelmadjid Tebboune President of Algeria Manish Kumar Gupta Chief Secretary of Arunachal Pradesh Amrit Mohan Prasad Director General of the Sashastra Seema Bal Aishwarya Bhati...
Fantasy Mission Force[Mi ni te gong dui; AKADragon Attack] (1983)– An anachronistic team of misfits (including Jackie Chan and guys in kilts) fight Amazons and stay at a haunted house while on a quest to rescue Allied generals captured by Japanese Nazis in Canada Fear and Loathing in Las...
Bennett's career was first launched in the late 1940s after serving in the United States Army during World War II. His breakthrough came with the release of his first number one hit, "Because of You," in 1951. From there, his star continued to rise throughout the 1950s and 1960s, ...
By the time of his retirement in 1955, he had reached the rank of lieutenant general. Puller is the most decorated Marine in American history. He is one of two United States servicemen to be awarded five Navy Crosses and one Army Distinguished Service Cross. Puller's six crosses are next ...
His father commanded the Rhodesian Army and his mother, Daphne, wrote a memoir of her difficult childhood in Rhodesia. He has appeared in the US television series, Criminal Minds, as well as the ongoing show Ultimate Force in which he played Colonel Aiden Dempsey for the entirety of its ...
In June 1941, Hitler ordered an invasion of the Soviet Union. By the end of 1941, German forces and the European Axis powers occupied most of Europe and North Africa. These gains were gradually reversed after 1941, and in 1945 the Allied armies defeated the German army. In the final days...
In 1946, he joined the King's African Rifles (KAR) of the British Colonial Army as a cook. He rose to the rank of lieutenant, taking part in British actions against Somali rebels in the Shifta War and then the Mau Mau rebels in Kenya. Uganda gained independence from the United King...
However, his role in the conflict was accompanied by large-scale exactions: thousands of civilians were killed by the Colombian army (see "False positives" scandal) with almost total impunity, according to the United Nations. and millions of people have been victims of forced displacement.In an...