If so, are there lessons to be learned from America's Cold War experience? Editor Nikolas K. Gvosdev asked John F. Lehman— former Secretary of the Navy, member of FPRI's Board of Directors, and one of America's leading strategic thinkers and policymakers—for his advice for U.S. ...
As 1918 dawned, a young Assistant Secretary of the Navy, just 36 at the time, was headed overseas, tasked with making sure America’s green and untested troops were ready for action in Europe’s great war. 1918年来临之际,一位36岁的海军助理秘书奉命出使海外,帮助没有战争经验的美国军队做好准...
President Grover Cleveland’s Secretary of the Navy, Hilary Herbert, also a Confederate veteran, followed Jones and remarked that “we build monuments to heroes so that future generations may imitate their example.” In summarizing the significance of this rhetoric and the erection of Confederate m...
but Elizabeth Woodville and Margaret Beaufort also feature as major characters. There’ve been a lot of books in recent years about the royal women of the Wars of the Roses, with more due out next year, but this
Diary of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy under Lincoln and Johnson (review) BOOK REVIEWS Diary of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy under Lincoln and Johnson . Edited by Howard K. Beale. Assisted by Alan W. Brownsword. 3 vols. (New York: W. W. Norton, 1960. $30.00.) in ...
The Shooting of little Willie Hall at Nairobi School In 1920 William Harold Hall, an eleven-year-old boy boarding at Nairobi School, was shot dead in the school dormitory by another pupil. This sorry incident was reported to Viscount Milner, Secretary of State for the... ...
On October 29, 1940, a blindfolded secretary of war Henry Stimson reached his hand into a glass container filled with capsules containing draft lottery numbers, and pulled out the “lucky” number. The previous month, President Franklin Roosevelt had signed the Selective Service Training and Service...
“At the end of the day, the real metric is power.”The question will become relevant as the Navy prepares to roll out its force structure assessment later this year, which service leaders have intimated will likely grow the number of ships it needs to support the National Defense Strategy....
Q7: The first secretary General of common wealth was (a) George Washington (b) Tulma Goldie (c) Arnold smith (d) Joseph Garba Answer: C Q8: Lagos became a crown colony in (a) 1862 (b) 1861 (c) 1841 (d) 1886 Answer: A
The president may or may not have noticed this on Tuesday evening. The White House declined to say earlier in the day whether Biden would be watching the debate. Karine Jean-Pierre, Biden’s press secretary, told reporters that he was “very, very busy.” Lead Art: Preside...