At least 160,000 civilians are believed to have perished during the siege, which lasted from June until October. PLA lieutenant colonel Zhang Zhenglu, who documented the siege in his book White Snow, Red Blood, compared it to Hiroshima: "The casualties were about the same. Hiroshima took ...
"It can help shoot those [ballistic missiles] down and protect innocent civilians there; and that includes Americans who are in Israel," she added. As Singh noted, Secretary Austin's decision to deploy a THAAD battery to Israel is in line with a number of steps the DOD has recently take...
The US government embarked on hiring civilians, many librarians, to collect and microfilm documents, publications, and books from overseas, as part intelligence-gathering, but also to preserve this information from destruction. Now, we have security personnel, who just stood there while two extremist...
Examine Equal Employment Opportunity: Require the Department of Defense to report on ways to improve the EEO process for DoD civilians. Enact the Elijah Cummings Federal Employee Anti-Discrimination Act: Strengthen EEO protections and increase accountability for federal employees who are found to be res...
In Ottoman Turkish Efendi was also a common term of respect for civilians, just as in Modern Persian Agha is merely the equivalent of "Mr." The most curious thing here may be that Efendi, which seems so Turkish and Muslim, derives from Greek. In Classical Greek it was αὐθέν...
To kick off their sock company, Socks for the Brave sent 150 pairs of their USA-manufactured socks to the Ironhorse Brigade from Fort Hood, TX, a unit preparing for a nine month deployment. Why socks? Deployed servicemembers spend more hours in their boots than many civilians can even ...
When a young US soldier in Afghanistan witnesses other recruits killing civilians under the direction of a sadistic sergeant, he begins to fear that the men he’s serving with might be the ones to kill him. -The Kill Team (October 25, 2019) ‘The Kill Team’ Movie Released: Based on th...
"Now, should Iran choose to [attack] again with … more ballistic missiles … a THAAD adds capability to Israel's air defenses," Singh said. "It can help shoot those [ballistic missiles] down and protect innocent civilians there; and that includes Americans who are in Israel," she added....
Urban warfare training – a war going on in a civilian neighborhood which implies inevitable suffering and the immoral terrorizing of innocent civilians – should have absolutely NOTHING to do with US ARMY basic training. ONLY for unique incidents such as freeing hostages could it even be ...
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