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ABDA Command meeting with Gen. Wavell

ABDA: The Unsuccessful Band of Brothers World War II 70th Anniversary (March 1942)

“For a house to be in unity, its members must agree. ABDA was never able to agree on strategy until it agreed the Netherlands East Indies was lost.”

– Lt. …

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The FY 2012 Defense Budget The drawdown begun

For all the fiery debates it launched in 2011, the U.S. military’s fiscal year 2012 budget achieved reality in anticlimactic form: part of the 1,200-page Consolidated Appropriations Act, finalized in …

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USN Medal of Honor

“Stolen Valor” Issue Is Agonizing for Everyone

Xavier Alvarez now says he was lying and wishes he hadn’t done it, but he insists he never committed a crime. In July 2007, speaking at a podium as an …

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Interview with Mike Pickup, Product Manager, HESCO Bastion

Mike Pickup is product manager at HESCO Bastion Ltd. During his 18 years of service in the British Army Royal Engineers, he deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan, Poland, Germany, Gibraltar, Falkland …

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Bombardment of Fort Sumter

Civil War Operations Against Charleston, S.C. I Photos U.S. Civil War 150th Anniversary

Charleston, S.C. was ensured a place in Civil War history when the first shots of the war were fired at Fort Sumter on April 12-13, 1861. From that moment the …

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Chiang Kai-shek, Madame Chiang Kai-shek and Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell

Stilwell in China: The Worst Command in the War

“Your leadership, especially under the peculiar conditions and difficulties of your authority and in a desperately critical situation, is a model for our army.”

—Army Chief of Staff Gen. George …

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Cartoonist Bill Mauldin

When Willie and Joe’s Creator Met “Blood and Guts” Patton

By 1945, Stars and Stripes cartoonist Sgt. Bill Mauldin was famous, and his creations, the G.I.s Willie and Joe, were popular with troops throughout the European Theater of Operations – …

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Japanse Navy Type B1 Submarine

Japanese Submarine and Air Attacks on the American Mainland Submarine, aircraft, and balloon bomb attacks caused localized panic but achieved little damage

“Another shell whined over my head and landed in the canyon on the Staniff place which is across the road from us.”

– Lawrence Wheeler, proprietor of Wheeler’s Inn

At …

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FY2013 health

FY 2013 Defense Budget Request: Military Health Care Takes a Hit The budget request outlines higher out-of-pocket health care costs for retired service members

The Department of Defense’s budget proposal for the 2013 fiscal year, while including a 1.7 percent increase in basic pay for military personnel, contains several provisions that will also increase …

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FY 2013 Defense Budget Request Force Structure Changes A first look at cuts in force structure and personnel numbers

For those wondering what the administration’s Strategic Guidance document meant when it discussed a smaller and leaner force structure, the Fiscal Year 2013 Budget Request Overview released today added some …

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