In the final days of the Pacific War and in the face of imminent defeat, Japanese troops blew up the headquarters of Unit 731 in order to destroy evidence of the research done there. As part of the cover-up, Ishii ordered 150 remaining subjects killed.1,2 In 1945 during the month-long...
The 1960s brought another set of challenges. The Cold War began that decade, and Cuba became the face of America's closest communist threat. Vietnam, a war that many protested, began with troops arriving in the country as early as 1965. From the 1970s to the 1980s, the U.S. struggle...
diplomacy remains the first option but we can’t exclude any action.” Canada, Guyana and Colombia refused to criticize the head of the OAS’ musings about an invasion of Venezuela.Alongside the head of the OAS, US President Donald Trump has publically discussed invading Venezuela. To the best...
Brig. Gen. Laura Yeager became the first woman to lead any U.S. Army infantry when Maj. Gen. Mark Malanka retired from the California National Guard's 40th Infantry Division on June 29, 2019. The division was led by men since its inception in 1917. Yeager was promoted in 2016 to brig...
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro mobilizes 5,600 troops after Britain sends warship to Guyana amid territorial dispute A.L. Lee – UPI Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro ordered the mobilization of more than 5,600 troops in response to the deployment of a British warship to the coast of Guyana...
The biggest declines occurred in Guyana 86 kb/d and Norway 85 kb/d. This chart also projects world production out to December 2023. It uses the February 2022 STEO report along with the International Energy Statistics to make the projection. (Red markers). It projects that world crude ...
In Guyana, kites are flown at Easter, an activity in which all ethnic and religious groups participate. Kites are generally not flown at any other time of year. Kites start appearing in the sky in the weeks leading up to Easter and school children are taken to parks for the activity. It...
The floating hospital is nearly as large as an aircraft carrier, and it has equipment that rivals some large hospitals on land. The Navy deployed the USNSComfortto the Persian Gulf near the beginning of the war in Iraq, to provide care to U.S. troops and Iraqi civilians wounded in the ...
That the president cared more about the interests of big business than those of ordinary Americans seemedmanifestin Cleveland’s handling of thePullman Strikein 1894. Cleveland sent federal troops toChicagoto quell violence atGeorge M. Pullman’s railroad car facility, despite the objections of Illin...