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• Rana is no Gandhi: FBI to court

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 724
  By Arun KumarWashington, Dec 15 (IANS) Pakistan-born Chicago businessman Tahawwur Hussain Rana, accused of complicity in the Mumbai terror attacks, “is no Gandhi”, say US prosecutors questioning his self-portrayal as a man of non-violence.“Ironically, in invoking the name of a man who embodied the principles of ...
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• Korean War Gallery Extra: The Road To Seoul

  
  HistoryNet - From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher — Authority: 432
  After the elegantly executed Inchon landings, the U.S. Marines faced bloodied but unbowed North Korean forces that dug in to protect Kimpo Airfield and South Korea’s former capital.
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• Grand Strategy for Yalies

  
  The Committee of Public Safety — Authority: 491
  I ran across this spring 2009 syllabus for Yale’s grand strategy program . Some highlights: I. INTRODUCTION Core reading: Williamson Murray and Mark Grimsley, ‘Introduction: On Strategy’, in Williamson Murray, MacGregor Knox and Alvin Bernstein, eds., The Making of Strategy: Rulers, States, and War ...
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• NEW-FORMATION REGIMENTS

  
  War and Game — Authority: 134
  The term new-formation (“western-model,” “foreign-model,” or “western-formation”) regiment refers to military units organized in linear formations, utilizing gunpowder weapons and tactics developed in the West. These regiments consisted of eight to ten companies, each ideally numbering 100 (infantry) to ...
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• Why No Poison Gas?

  
  HistoryNet - From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher — Authority: 432
  Hitler didnt use poison gas, but--needless to say--it wasnt because he had doubts about the morality of it all.
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• We Will Not Fight

  
  Great War Fiction — Authority: 116
  Oxford bookshops are closing at an alarming rate. Waterfield’s last month, Borders this week. The upside of Borders going broke was that they had a spectacular sale to get rid of stock. This meant not only that I solved a whole load of Christmas present problems extremely economically; I also bought a bundle of ...
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• Justinians Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe by William Rosen

  
  Strategist's Personal Library — Authority: 125
  Justinians Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe by William Rosen this is one of those attempts to determine the transition point between two eras of history as a title suggests the ancient and medieval. This is done through looking at three different phenomena that took place roughly at the same time ...
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• Warsaw 1944: Polands bid for freedom by Robert Forczyk

  
  Strategist's Personal Library — Authority: 125
  Warsaw 1944: Polands bid for freedom by Robert Forczyk is an Osprey campaign title on this failed attempt of Polands resistance to seize control of Warsaw. Forczyks spends much of his time discussing the run up to the launch as well as the political background in London and Moscow. Both the British and Russians ...
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• Light Horse: A History of Australia’s Mounted Arm – Jean Bou

  
  BookOffers.com.au — Authority: 143
  Light Horse: A History of Australia’s Mounted Arm historian at the Australian War Memorial and a Visiting Fellow with the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University Jean Bou traces the origins and accomplishments of the legendary Light Horse. The mounted soldier is one of the most ...
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• Back to the Cold War: The LABS Maneuver

  
  Behind Blue Lines — Authority: 123
  Put this post into the bin of Cold War military oddities both fascinating and horrifying.The “LABS Maneuver” (LABS standing for “Low Altitude Bombing System”) was a way of lobbing a nuclear or thermonuclear gravity bomb after a low-level run-in to the target. By the late 1950s, high-altitude strategic bombing ...
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• Second Bull Run

  
  TOCWOC - A Civil War Blog — Authority: 115
  Second Bull Run By James W. Durney After the battle of Brawner’s Farm or Groveton, Pope had “bagged” Jackson and all he needed to do was beat him in battle.  Pope possessed unlimited confidence in his ability to do this with his army of 63,000 assembled from multiple independent sources.  Franz Sigel ...
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• #3, Dr. Strangelove (Top 10 Post-Apocalyptic Films)

  
  Britannica Blog — Authority: 536
  Few films were as emblematic of their time as was Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 romp Dr. Strangelove or: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb , a mouthful of a title and a scathing satirical blast of a movie. Something has gone badly wrong at Burpleson Air Force Base: the commanding general, Jack D. ...
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• Planning a Tragedy: Americanization of the War in Vietnam by Larry Berman

  
  Strategist's Personal Library — Authority: 125
  Planning a Tragedy: Americanization of the War in Vietnam by Larry Berman seemed to be a logical book to read considering the recent United States debate over escalation in Afghanistan. Berman using unclassified material as well as correspondence with the players describes the thought process that went into the ...
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• Climate Justice Clips: The Real Conspiracy at Copenhagen

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 665
  This is analogous to the indulgences that the Catholic Church sold in the middle ages. The bishops collected lots of money and the sinners got redemption. Both parties liked that arrangement despite its absurdity. That is exactly whats happening...
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• December 8, 1941: The War with Japan Begins

  
  History Blog — Authority: 116
  December 7, 1941 is the day the attack on Pearl Harbor took place. A day later The United States and Great Britain declared war on Japan. World War two now had its two largest combatants fully engaged. The war would intensify as man’s inhumanity to man scaled new and scientific heights. “Yesterday, December 7, ...
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• Augsburg, Römisches Museum

  
  New at LacusCurtius & Livius — Authority: 418
  Paternus Clementianus The Roman Museum in Augsburg is situated in the historical centre of the city, in the Church of St. Magdalena, which was originally the church of a Dominican monastery. The church was built between 1513 and 1515 and contained the funerary chapels of several important Augsburg families. ...
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• The M1 Garand Rifle

  
  Dummidumbwit's Weblog — Authority: 139
  The M1 Garand Rifle “Just give me the aspirin. I already got a Purple Heart.” Bill Mauldin, Stars and Stripes (1944) M1 Garand The Springfield 1903 rifle reflected the era of high development in rifles operated manually which ended in 1936 with the introduction into the United States ...
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• Disastrous Lessons

  
  Opinion Forum — Authority: 132
  By Jan Barry Lyndon B. Johnson’s decision to escalate U.S. military involvement in Vietnam, despite public statements that he sought no wider war, destroyed his political career. John F. Kennedy’s decision to veto hawkish generals and advisors and wage a secretive, low-key counterinsurgency campaign—which ...
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• At Dawn, Google Slept. Bing Woke.

  
  The Hoosierpundit — Authority: 506
  Google didnt pay any attention to it being Pearl Harbor Day. Bing did .
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• Books I Cant Wait to Read

  
  Letters in Bottles — Authority: 143
  Mao: The Unknown Story The Moviegoer Southern Storm: Shermans March to the Sea Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works The Fabric of the Cosmos Books Im still trying to finish (law school cut in): Wisconsin Votes (fascinating thus far) Lincolns Admiral: The Civil War Campaigns of David Farragut On ...
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