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The Power Of The Cloth Part 2
By G. Paul GarsonIf the phrase “the clothes make the man” is true, then it is equally true that the uniform makes the soldier. Read more
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Reflections on “Sneak Attacks and “Dates of Infamy”
At some point during this magazine’s three-month “shelf life,” the date December 7 will fall. As human society has a penchant for observing the fifth- and 10th-year anniversaries of certain events, this December 7 will be a significant one—the 70th anniversary of the Japanese attack on American military bases in the Pacific that catapulted the United States into World War II and forever changed the course of history. Read more
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The Lusitania Disaster
By Al HemingwayAt 2:10 PM on May 7, 1915, Captain Walther Schwieger, commanding the German submarine U-20, was patrolling off the coast of Ireland, looking for British merchant ships. Read more
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
By Joseph LusterThe 2011 holiday season has been brutal, and as of this writing it’s really only just begun. Sure, it’s easy to sit in the future and reflect calmly on what was yet another ridiculously packed time of year as far as entertainment goes, but those of us living in the present (past?) Read more
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The 1541 Algiers Expedition
By Bruce Ware AllenIn the late summer 1541, 40 warships appeared off the shores of Sardinia, part of a grand armada gathered by Charles the V of Spain, Holy Roman Emperor. Read more
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Confederate Cavalry Leader Turner Ashby
Even in an army not lacking for larger-than-life figures, Confederate cavalry leader Turner Ashby stood out from the crowd. Although not particularly tall—about five feet, 10 inches—there was something about Ashby that commanded attention. Read more
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Following the Cambodian seizure of the USS Mayaguez, faulty intelligence led to the debacle on Koh Tang Island.
By Al HemingwayOn May 12, 1975, an American-registered cargo ship, the SS Mayaguez, was suddenly fired upon by Cambodian gunboats and later seized by Khmer Rouge soldiers who boarded her. Read more
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Rudyard Kipling’s enthusiastic support for World War I cost him his 18-year-old son, John, who died at the Battle of Loos in 1915, living up to his father’s vision.
The doomed young English poet Wilfred Owen achieved posthumous fame for his heartbreaking poems about common soldiers in World War I, but another British writer has seen his reputation sink precipitously as a result of his quite different take on the war. Read more
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A Moment to Celebrate
As I write this editorial, the news is just coming through about the demise of the world’s arch-terrorist, Osama bin Laden. Read more
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Late Fall 2011 Cover
Dear Editor:
I have being reading your magazine for several years and I would like to congratulate you on the fine job you are doing. Read more
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Bob Drury and Tom Clavin’s ‘Last Men Out’
By Al HemingwayOn April 30, 1975, the American-backed government in Saigon, South Vietnam, fell to the Communists. For those who served in what was then our nation’s longest war, it was a time of sadness, bitterness, and anger. Read more
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Battlefield vs. Call of Duty
There is a war being waged. I’m not talking about a real-life struggle in another country, or a virtual facsimile of said war projected from an oversized high-definition television screen. Read more
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Robert E. Lee Wanted to Avoid Repeating the Mistakes of His Father
Robert E. Lee never knew his father, Revolutionary War hero “Light Horse Harry” Lee. True, he saw him a few times, on the infrequent occasions of the elder Lee’s visits to his family at their gloomy mansion, Stratford, in Westmoreland County, Virginia But Light Horse Harry, living up to his nickname, was never anywhere for very long—certainly not in the confining bosom of his family. Read more
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Shooters Rule At E3
By Joseph LusterIf a single word could succinctly sum up this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo—aka E3, which took place from June 7-9—it would be SHOOTERS. Read more
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The Consummate General
As a small child growing up in Missouri, Omar Bradley was taught that honesty and hard work were virtues one should strive for in leading a decent, fulfilling life. Read more
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The Japanese perspective has been added to the brand new USS Arizona Memorial Visitors Center.
On December 7, 2010, a newly renovated and expanded visitors center at Pearl Harbor opened under the auspices of the National Park Service. Read more
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August 2011 Military Games
By Joseph LusterCould SOCOM 4 have been released at a worse time? Probably not. The latest in Sony’s exclusive line of tactical third-person shooters had the misfortune of coming out right around the time of Playstation Network’s notorious shut-down at the hands of hacker community “Anonymous,” rendering its chief feature, online play, utterly useless. Read more
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How the Boston Tea Party Sparked a Revolution
By Al HemingwayOn a wintry night in December 1773, about 70 men, many of whom were disguised as Indians, unceremoniously dumped an estimated 10,000 pounds, the modern equivalent of $1 million, of tea into Boston harbor. Read more
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The Korean Occupation of America
By Joseph LusterWar landing on U.S. soil is one of the ultimate worst case scenarios, and as such it’s perfect for the kind of game developer Kaos Studios has whipped up in Homefront. Read more
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Confederate John C. Pemberton was not a traitor, as some alleged.
One of the unlikeliest—and unluckiest—Confederate leaders was Pennsylvania-born general John C. Pemberton, who “married South,” as the saying went, only to go down in infamy as the man who surrendered Vicksburg to Ulysses S. Read more
