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I was born in Munich, and my father was stationed in Salzburg. For the first three years of my life, I lived…
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In battle, topography is fate.
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There is something within our biological structure that screams out and says it is morally wrong for the old to outlive the…
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I think the Bush Administration had basically inherited a policy toward Iraq from the Reagan/Bush Administration that saw Iraq as a kind…
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In searching for a rationale to go to war, Bush settled on the notion of Saddam as an incarnation of evil, basically,…
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American audiences tend to underappreciate the British, but 240 years ago they were us: They were the most powerful nation on Earth.…
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The U.S. Army records alone for World War II weigh 17,000 tons, and even the best historians have not done more than…
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Almost everything about American society is affected by World War II: our feelings about race; our feelings about gender and the empowerment…
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Global war is a clash of systems, not just battalions biffing one another in some godforsaken forest.
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The American army between world wars after World War I had virtually disintegrated. It was a very small force, given largely to…
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I think I may try and write something about my pretty extraordinary experience with the 101st in Iraq.
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The spring of 1942 was given over to a very impassioned, strategic debate about where we should first attack in counterpunching against…
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