List of Military articles
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S11961 ‘Vietnam’: Tom’s own view
Thus far I’ve held off, because I didn’t want to get in the way of Charles Krohn’s reviews.
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Bad_Santa_2_poster-3 Military reliefs, ousters, and such
I didn’t think I’d be running another one of these roundups so soon, but news keeps popping up about military misdeeds.
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delphi Edgar on Strategy (III): A good strategy rests atop solid philosophical foundations
Political philosophy provides a foundation from which we can imagine and discuss strategy productively.
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Kent_State_massacre ‘Vietnam’ Ep. 8: Trouble at home
This episode is mostly about My Lai and Kent State. I abstain from commenting.
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111201-A-8267F-567 U.S. Army military policemen take a knee during a patrol along a road outside Camp Taji, Iraq, on Dec. 2, 2011. The soldiers are assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division's Headquarters Company, 2nd Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team. The military policemen rolled out before sunrise to patrol roads to ensure the safety of the brigade's convoys traveling through the area from Baghdad. DoD photo by Sgt. Kissta Feldner, U.S. Army. (Released) ‘Taking a knee’: An Army tradition
In the Army, taking a knee is a way of gaining perspective. The rest of us could use some of that.
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800px-F-100C_188TFS_TuyHoa ‘Vietnam’ 7: Demonstrators to the front
While unfit to comment on the wild student riots that dominate much of Episode 7, I think their importance is overplayed — hugely visual, of course, but overplayed.
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TOPSHOT - Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi delivers a national address in Naypyidaw on September 19, 2017. Aung San Suu Kyi said on September 19 she "feels deeply" for the suffering of "all people" caught up in conflict scorching through Rakhine state, her first comments on a crisis that also mentioned Muslims displaced by violence. / AFP PHOTO / Ye Aung THU (Photo credit should read YE AUNG THU/AFP/Getty Images) As Tragedy Unfolds in Myanmar, the People’s Heroine Stokes the Flames of Hatred
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya civilians are trapped in a cycle of violence perpetuated by Myanmar’s military, exacerbated by Islamist militants, and inflamed by Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Ice_Cold_in_Alex_poster War films: A British selection of the best
“The 30 best war films of all time” — selected by someone who clearly loves movies about the Brits in World War II. The parenthetical remarks are mine.
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170428-F-AI758-098 A military therapy dog
Labradors are good at therapy.
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soldierreadinglist The Army reading list: Annoying habits, bad choices and very woolly thinking
This year's summer reading list is breathtakingly mediocre.
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dakto Burns’s ‘Vietnam’ 5: On the brink of Tet
In episode 5, Burns dives into the Tet offensive and wrestles with unrest on the home front.
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NATIONAL HARBOR, MD - SEPhTEMBER 20: Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis (L), shakes hands with Air Force Chief of Staff, Gen. David L. Goldfein before delivering the keynote address at the Air Force Association 2017 Air, Space and Cyber Conference, at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center on September 20, 2017 in National Harbor, Maryland. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) After Trump Speech, Mattis Says North Korea Crisis Still ‘Diplomatic Effort’
A military option is on the table, the defense chief says, but sanctions are main cudgel for reining in Pyongyang for now.
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Hardtack_II_Socorro_test Hey: We are edging closer to nuclear war!
Why is President Harry S. Truman on President Donald Trump’s mind this week?
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Robert_McNamara_at_a_cabinet_meeting,_22_Nov_1967 Burns’s ‘Vietnam’ 4: I think I see the point. Maybe.
T.R. Fehrenbach, in his classic book about the Korean War, says that bombs from the sky aren’t the same as boots on the ground.
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A front view of four nuclear free-fall bombs on a bomb cart. Like I was saying: Tactical nukes are on the table for use against North Korea
Here’s an exchange Defense Secretary James Mattis had with reporters yesterday about tactical nuclear weapons.
