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“It is said that when men have made up their mind to die they act and speak like gods.” quote by C.J. Chivers — Download Open image

““It is said that when men have made up their mind to die they act and speak like gods.””

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“The sentence was death. His appeal was rejected. At 7:18 A.M on April 9, 1959, József Tibor Fejes was hanged. He was suspended on…

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“McNamara’s Pentagon was right on one point. The M-14 was not the best all-purpose rifle for what war had become, especially in a tropical…

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“In sum, the United States had armed its foes, indirectly but surely. The war echoed edicts of Mao: “Guerrillas must not depend too much…

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“The rules of war established by pen soldiers do not form the basis of actual operations in the field,” he wrote.”

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“If a rifle could not be trusted, its other characteristics were moot. Being a bayonet holder was not enough.”

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“enough weapons had been shown to enough military officers, and distributed to enough armies and navies, that given time even the most stupid of…

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“Within a very few years the Kalashnikov’s attributes—its mechanical characteristics combined with its unprecedented availability—transformed Stalin’s rifle, conceived as a tool of the state,…

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“The M-16 sure is a marvelous gun, and in a god-awful war it provides some keen fun. The bullet it fires appears too small…

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“By 1944, three years later, the ordeal and the turnabout had both been spectacular. The Soviet Union had lost as many as 20 million…

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“He gave them nicknames, including a series of people he assigned the name Stupid.”

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“Often Soviet soldiers located insurgents only by drawing their fire—the 1956 version of a perilous form of combat patrol, known among soldiers as the…

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