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Once the routes were determined, a protractor was used to determine the azimuth or compass direction of each leg of the route. There is a difference between a magnetic azimuth from a compass and a grid azimuth on the map, but in Vietnam the difference was so small that there was no ...
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The engineering of the network that has been able to be reduced in metaphors has expanded as an achievement of engineering–“beyond anything a modern military has ever faced,” per the chair of Urban Warfare Studies, at West Point’s Modern War Institute, making the conflict far more than a...
As more information flows about global battlefields are routed and monitored from decommissioned Air Force stations in bases no longer charged with flying missions, the expanded intelligence-gathering function of drones leaves many watching large flat-screen monitors, removed from battlefields–or the ...
Likewise, global reconstructions may overlook a similar decoupling between population growth and the national demand for agricultural land in countries that have gone through similar socio-economic changes, e.g., Japan, the Republic of Korea (a.k.a. South-Korea) and Vietnam. The discrepancy in ...
at Dyess Air Force Base in Abilene and flight training across the skies of the King Ranch by naval aviator cadets at Kingsville Naval Air Station, men and women of the Lone Star State trained or helped train countless more at the state’s major military bases for the war in Vietnam. (...
even the inscription of names of those killed in the event at the site itself on a granite plaque, evocative of the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial, oddly strips them of individuality–unlike how the reflecting stone surface of the Vietnam War Memorial designed by Maya Lin invites viewers to touc...
While one might rightly wonder why the army, navy, and marines are based so widely over an “empire of bases,” the cost to the government is no doubt not only expressed in the cost of running the bases that are outposts of Americana where one would think oneself to be geographically re...
and even helicopter landing pads that were military materiel from Vietnam were to be expanded to a continuous wall by the man who, Ayn Rand style, promised he was master architect and builder of a border security system, in hopes to get the costly concrete wall he imagined would be perfect...