Thousands of Marines wait off shore. — the Pentagon awarded a multimillion-dollar contract to build U.S. troop facilities for a secret base it maintains deep within Israel’s Negev desert, just 20 miles from Gaza. Code-named Site 512, the base is also a radar facility that monitors ...
To live properly in war, the individual eliminates all such things as potential danger. Then a thing is only bad when it is bad. It is neither bad before nor after. Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imaginat...
US Marines had to fight for hours before securing the airport, after which Kuwait was declared secure. After four days of fighting, Iraqi forces were expelled from Kuwait. As part of a scorched earth policy, they set fire to nearly 700 oil wells and placed land mines around the wells to ...
Italian Republic (1989-Present) Wheeled Tank Destroyer – ~493 Built The concept of a fast tank destroyer for the Italian Army was conceived during the Cold War in order to replace some vehicles then in Italian service, such as the then obsolete M47 Patton. Such a vehicle was also meant ...
s plan to hold fire until the landing beaches were full. As soon as the Marines pushed inland to a line of enemy bunkers, they came under devastating machine gun and artillery fire which cut down many of the men. By the end of the day, the Marines reached the west coast of the ...
he encounters the harsh realities of war and its devastating impact on human lives, leading him to question the meaning of existence and search for a higher purpose.The Burmese Harpoffers a profound meditation on the nature of war, compassion, and redemption, ultimately emerging as a poignant pl...
Americas. This ranged from generals to secretaries, to embassy staff, and many others. Over two years, all of them were given sentences from life in prison to hard labor, to death, or sometimes they were acquitted of all charges. This event would become known as the Federation War Trials...
Like Brothers, The Pacific draws many of its details from firsthand accounts, here using memoirs by former marines as source material. However, while the earlier HBO show focuses on one company of paratroopers in the Western Front, this series takes a wider view of the Pacific theater, ...
Waugh was born in Bastrop, Texas on December 1, 1929. He was bitten by the bug to join the military during World War II. In 1945, he met a pair of Marines who had just returned to Texas from fighting in theSouth Pacific. So, at the age of 15, he decided to enlist. Somehow, he...
With this militaristic history of bombing failing as obviously as it has, why has diplomacy never taken hold? Leaving aside the long, bad history between the two countries leading up to the takeover of the U.S. embassy in Tehran in 1979, the biggest impediment to full and complete ...