As Army officerPaul Yinglingfamously wrote (“A Failure in Generalship”), a private is severely punished for losing a rifle but generals get promoted for losing wars. I doubt this is going to change. Instead, under Trump it appears the firing of generals is another leg of his vengeance to...
Compounding the impact of the cuts is a chronic failure by the Ministry of Defence and the army over the past 20 years to procure some of its most needed equipment - such as armoured vehicles and new communication systems - despite spending billions of pounds. In addition, t...
Halfway across the continent Confederate Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton surrendered his emaciated forces at Vicksburg to Major General Ulysses S Grant which cut the Confederacy in half. Of course Lee had a direct hand in that debacle as well by rejecting all attempts to send significant forc...
United States of America (1944-1945) Flail Tank – 2 Built In 1944, the United States Army began testing British-built flail tanks such as the Crab and Scorpion. Mine flails like these consist of a rotating drum connected to a series of chains suspended from the front of the vehicle. ...
Camp Ellis Army Service Forces Unit Training Center Fort Francis E. Warren Quartermaster Unit Training CenterList of Equipment:The following types of equipment were in use (based on T/O & E 10-297, dated 1 July 1943):Chemical: 1 Alarm, Gas M1 18 Apparatus, Decontaminating, 1½-qt, ...
John Robert Fox (May 18, 1915 – December 26, 1944) was a United States Army first lieutenant who was killed in action after calling in artillery fire on the enemy during World War II. In 1997, he was awarded the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military decoration for valor, for...
The Federal Disaster Response Agency (FEDRA or F.E.D.R.A.), colloquially known as the military or army, is an antagonistic faction featured in The Last of Us and The Last of Us Part II.[6][7] FEDRA was a government agency in the United States, tasked wit
"This was a dangerous and unnecessary escalation which I have condemned in the strongest terms." US planes reportedly downed Iranian drones over northernSyria. The Israel Defence Forces is "poised and prepared for further aggression", IDF spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner told Sky News...
Gallagher and his commanding officer, Lieutenant Jake Portier, then posed for photographs of them standing over the body with some other nearby SEALs. Gallagher then text messaged a friend in California a picture himself holding the dead captive's head by the hair with the explanation "Good ...
4pp. Report: List of New Lieutenant Generals. January 30, 1936. 4pp. Report: Biography of General Ch-en Ming-shu. April 21, 1936. 3pp. Report: Biography of General Wu T'ieh-ch'eng. March 23, 1936. 4pp. Letter: Washington to MilitaryAttache, Peking. Revisionof the "Who's Who" ...