Sentences with phrase «as military history»

Mark Felton has written over a dozen books on prisoners of war, Japanese war crimes and Nazi war criminals, and writes regularly for magazines such as Military History Monthly and World War II.

As a military history nerd, I'm reminded of the tanks of World War 2 — the Russians built a standard model (the T - 34) that was good enough, easy to manufacture in huge numbers and easy for draftee farmboys to learn to use (the Americans solved the same problem with the Sherman).

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In addition to the underperformance from the energy sector after U.S. military strikes in the Mideast, big oil stocks like Exxon Mobil and Chevron, which have a longer history than the ETFs, as well as the price of crude oil, have also trailed the market.

There are also awkward gaps in the history it archives, such as the dearth of footage documenting one of the largest massacres of civilian protesters in modern world history — the infamous assault on a Muslim Brotherhood — led sit - in shortly after the military coup of 2013, which killed more than 800 civilians.

, now a professor of military history at Ohio State University, served 26 years in the Army with two tours in Iraq, to include duty as Petraeus» executive officer in 2007.

The event is scheduled for Nov. 11 — Veterans Day — and will focus on celebrating active military as well as the contributions of veterans throughout U.S. history, the Pentagon said in a memo earlier this month.

Editor's note: Most of the historical information in this blog is from the US Army Center of Military History, as are all of the paintings.

BRAGG stunk as a general, but FORT BRAGG is a name that a high place in our more recent military history.

The once - regnant ideal of history — that it features elite males as the main actors in political and military narratives — is now in tatters.

However, as a person with great passion for history and especially military history, I am inclined to correct a lot of the false attacks on the bible.

During the 1960s and»70s, as the nation's military involvement in Vietnam inspired a mood of questioning and cynicism, defenders of U.S. policy seemed to become even more explicit in their efforts to find divine legitimacy in American history.

In the primary history, he is mentioned as a 100 percent Israelite patriot, a prophet who predicted and encouraged the military campaigns by which Jeroboam II recovered much of the lost territory of the Northern Kingdom (2 Kings 14:25).

In this period of history, when militant homosexuals not only reveal their liaisons and lifestyles but actively and articulately promote the homosexual relationship as a morally acceptable alternative to marriage, legislation that would require the military to accept homosexuals would do much more to violate the rights of heterosexual military personnel than it would to promote the rights of homosexuals.

And what does that have to do with the Christian life today, with being a progressive Christian today — when for the first time in polling history the military now supercedes the Church as «the most trusted institution»?

The Air Force acknowledged Monday that it did not enter Kelley's criminal history into the federal database as required by military rules, another way he could have been denied a weapon.

I try to avoid doctors (I'm a military spouse and we don't often get to see the same doctor each time) who stick strictly to the «charts» and seek out doctors who use common sense (as in: what size are parents, parents weight - gain history, infants developmental milestones, siblings growth history, etc).

It's a lot easier to subdue a farmer (threat to his land / farm) than someone having no job / property; which is why military occupation got progressively MORE difficult as history marched on and less and less humans were farming.

It worked for the British, as any military campaign history of north Africa, northern Europe, Italy or Burma will testify.

«Of all the privileges of this office — and there are many — I will miss Air Force One, I will miss Marine One but I can stand before you today and say that there has been no greater privilege, and no greater honour, than serving as the Commander - in - Chief of the greatest military in the history of the world.»

This will go into the history books as the Comey / Cohen attack... they will study it at military schools as a complete abuse of military power.

These could be airwaves, as in public broadcasting, or water or climate, or national history or education or parks, prisons, or the military and its codes, membership and responsibilities.

After the war, this momentous event in the history of modern Greece — popularly known as the No Day — became a national holiday, celebrated annually with impressive military and student parades.

Lord Ashcroft's interest in the Forces and their charities, military history and courage provided the background to the appointment, and he was in a position to bring a completely independent approach as he held no candle for any particular body.

As my colleague Zeeshan Aleem writes, although the Obama administration gave Israel a bigger military aid package than any US president in history, and has vetoed past UN condemnations of settlements, Obama had a «tense and at times outright hostile relationship with the right - wing Netanyahu.»

As the previous section should make clear, Rwanda's history in the region gives it a complex web of overlapping military, economic, social and emotive reasons to continue activities in Eastern Congo.

G.K.C Reddy commented that «Operation Blue Star will go down in history as one of the biggest massacres of unarmed civilians by the organised military force of a nation.»

In terms of high level military, intelligence and security operations and what are known in western intelligence agencies as «black ops» few events in our history come close to the one that took place in Dapchi a few months ago.

After seven years in military prison for carrying out one of the largest leaks in US history and coming out as a transgender woman, Chelsea Manning is embarking on the next stage in her epic journey: running for a seat in the US Senate in Maryland.

Most of thew times, we see military intervention is to «protect the civilians» or to serve as «help» in the conflict but the history show us military often choose a side (usually, not always rebels) to «protect and help»; remember for example, NATO acted in Libya to help civilians; we know know they only protected the rebels.

David I've read your comments on Jarvis past military history as being irrelevant, but this whole article is daft, the in, y thing in Jarvis favour, is it's unlikely Osborne will be the next Tory leader and May or Boris Johnsons age, means that labour can look at the 2025 election without worrying that Jarvis would be 55 ′ and stills sensible age for leader.

On the night of July 15, Turkey went through the most catastrophic tragedy in its recent history as a result of the attempted military coup.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja vowed never to allow history to repeat itself like during his term as military Head of State...

Osinbajo, who delivered the president's oration at the funeral service, described Adebayo as an officer and a gentleman indeed, saying his military trajectory was in a way a lesson in Nigeria's history.

The gunman who killed 26 people at a small - town Texas church had a history of domestic violence that spanned years before the attack, and was able buy weapons because the Air Force did not submit his criminal history to the FBI as required by military rules.

Simone Askew marched into history yesterday as the first black woman to lead the Long Gray Line at the U.S. Military Academy.

The F - 35 was billed as a fighter jet that could do almost everything the U.S. military desired but has turned out to be one of the greatest boondoggles in recent military purchasing history

As a travel destination, it's a must - see for aviation buffs and for people like me who are simply curious about the history and future of the country's military and civilian aerospace programs.

Jackson was born in Topeka, Kansas, to a military family who could trace their history to a great - grandfather who served as a Confederate cook in the Civil War.

The president agreed that the government should fund both academic and military science, Greenberg said, but Eisenhower also had a history of staying out of science - policy clashes such as the Oppenheimer affair, when the former Manhattan Project director was stripped of his security clearance after voicing ethical concerns over nuclear weapons.

The complex event and its aftermath can also be further illuminated via discussions of larger themes in social and political history, such as balancing national safety and civil rights — comparing reactions to 9/11 with those following the attack on Pearl Harbor, for example — or the grounds for overseas military interventions — such as the recent U.S. engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan as compared with the U.S.'s position on the League of Nations after World War I. «These themes put a light on it,» Brodsky Schur says, giving teachers and even parents a way to integrate such a seemingly unteachable event.

Learn all about the history of the military jacket, when it has been on - trend in fashion, as well as everything you need to know...

This is probably due to their history in the military, as well as their functional use of protecting you when you're outside or in a dirty environment.

Israel's military response - resulting in the deaths of 56 people (3 hostages, 1 Israeli soldier, 7 hijackers, and 45 Ugandan soldiers)- is regarded as one of the more audacious rescue missions in modern history.

It's presented as a propagandistic TV documentary about what went wrong in District 9, where Wikus — a white representative of a black government — went in with heavy military backup to uproot the one group in South African history to be treated worse than blacks were under the previous apartheid regime.

In the fourth episode of History's new military action series Six, an American hostage in Nigeria tells veteran SEAL Team commander Richard «Rip» Taggart (Walton Goggins) that his grandson views the SEALs as superheroes.

Oldman has described Churchill is one of history's indispensable men, and the movie has echoes of Stephen Spielberg's Lincoln, whose subject was just as indispensable to the resolution of America's own great moral and military crisis.

From the Studio: From director Clint Eastwood comes «American Sniper,» starring Bradley Cooper as Chris Kyle, the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history.

Official Synopsis: From director Clint Eastwood comes American Sniper, starring Bradley Cooper as Chris Kyle, the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history.

The Wind and the Lion (1972), the sophomore feature of the film school - trained screenwriter turned director, takes on a romantic tale of rebellion and response, honorable ancient codes and modern military might, and the first stirrings of the United States of America, the modern, maverick young country in a political culture dominated by the history - seeped empires of old Europe, as a world power.

Bradley Cooper stars as the deadliest sniper in American military history.