International Militaries

Trident Conference

The Trident Conference Gen. George C. Marshall's victories during and after

With North Africa liberated and plans for Operation Husky, the invasion of Sicily, on track, the question confronting the United States and Great Britain was: What’s next? That was the …

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Covering Fire

The Year in Special Operations: 2013-2014 I Photos

Special operators as well as industry leaders from around the globe received their copies of The Year in Special Operations: 2013-2014 at the 2013 Special Operations Forces Industry Conference (SOFIC). …

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Wernberg 1945

Book Review – The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 By Rick Atkinson; Henry Holt and Co.; 896 pages; Volume Three of The Liberation Trilogy

The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 by Rick Atkinson, is the third volume in his Liberation Trilogy. Begun in 2002 with the release of An …

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German R-type minesweepers operating near the coast of occupied France.  Bundesarchiv photo

The Granville Raid

By the beginning of 1945, the German occupation of the British Channel Islands was well into its fifth year. The Allied liberation of France, that previous summer, had left them …

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Lewis and Clark Expedition

The Girandoni Air Rifle A weapon ahead of its time?

The alpine region of Tyrol, a borderland between Italians and Germans, has long bred skillful hunters and tough mountain warriors. Around 1778, a Tyrolean master gunsmith, Bartolomeo Girandoni (1729-1799), invented …

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Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor

When Telford Taylor and U.S. Army G-2 Gained Access to Ultra The British let in the rabble

In the early years of the war, knowledge of Ultra – British decoded German cypher traffic encrypted by the Enigma machine – was limited to only the most senior American …

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Col. Robert M. Taradash, commander, Task Force Protector (left), Col. Robert A. Sinkler, commander, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Rock Island District (middle), and Lt. Gen. Thomas P. Bostick, USACE commanding general and chief engineer, tour the detainee housing unit at the Detention Facility in Parwan (DFIP), in the Parwan province of Afghanistan, on June 6, 2012, to determine current and future infrastructure requirements. Bostick serves as the senior military officer overseeing most civil works infrastructure and military construction in the United States, but USACE also has a key role in support of overseas contingency operations, including those in Afghanistan. Photo by Faiza Evans

Army Corps of Engineers Overseas Contingency Operations The Army Corps of Engineers helps to build host-nation capacity

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is a global component of the Defense Department, providing civil works and engineering support to the nation’s nine combatant commands (COCOMs) and to …

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Katyn Massacre

The Katyn Massacre: The Pot Calling the Kettle Black

In 1939, Nazi Germany and its then-ally the Soviet Union divided conquered Poland between them per the terms of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Some senior members of the Polish government and …

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A United Arab Emirates F-16 Block 60 "Desert Falcon" conducts a training mission during a multinational exercise, Dec. 9, 2009. The UAE's F-16s are arguably the most advanced Vipers in the world, and many of the aircraft's features, such as its AESA radar and advanced sensors, are likely to find their way to other F-16 fleets as upgrades. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Michael B. Keller

Worldwide Aerospace Upgrade Programs Uncertainty boosts the world market for aircraft/system modernization.

During a media availability in Hawaii on Nov. 12, 2012, then-Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta was asked for his thoughts on the threat of sequestration to U.S. defense and …

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Project Terminated

Book Review – Project Terminated: Famous Military Aircraft Cancellations of the Cold War and What Might Have Been By Erik Simonsen; Foreward by Walter J. Boyne; Crecy Publishing; Hardcover; 160 pages

Two huge, sleek, breathtaking Avro CF-105 Arrow interceptors are on the prowl over the western United States. One is a visitor from north of the border where the futuristic fighter …

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