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Vor 12 Stunden · That’s the thing Hollywood most often gets wrong about war when they cast grown men to portray America’s finest killers. Look at a Marine infantry platoon, so many of whose members joined at ...
Vor 2 Tagen · Rick Atkinson — the nation’s finest military historian, living or dead — has written of the 291,557 American lives lost in World War II combat: “Each death is as unique as a snowflake or a ...
Vor 5 Tagen · These military conflicts have created millions of refugees, consumed trillions of dollars and claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. In the face of such conflicts, here are some of the best war quotes to help you find some solace. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
Vor einem Tag · One of the earliest and most prophetic warnings came from German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, the architect of Germany‘s unification. Shortly before his death in 1898, he observed: "One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans." 2. His words would prove eerily prescient. The spark that ignited the ...
Vor 4 Tagen · A Times investigation uncovered a brutal campaign enacted by U.S.-backed forces during the war in Afghanistan.
Vor 17 Stunden · In parallel, he was working on two other articles related to the same topic: thoughts about war and death (2) and transience (3). This was in the midst of the First World War. Freud lived in Vienna, and the Habsburg Empire was engaged in a full-blown war with Russia, Britain and France.
Vor 17 Stunden · About 10 years ago, as the war in Afghanistan was slowly, painfully winding down, I walked through Arlington National Cemetery with a fellow Marine veteran and a relative of mine visiting from Ireland. We passed row after row of pristine white tombs, the dead of all the just wars and unjust wars that made and remade this country, and my relative told us he found it quite moving; he hadn’t ...
