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  The Army and America’s Emergence as a World Power
Army officers negotiated treaties with the Sioux, Cheyenne, and other western tribes and tried to maintain order between the Native Americans and the white prospectors, hunters, ranchers, and farmers flooding into the West.
Army expeditions also explored the newly purchased territory of Alaska and the northwest coast of Greenland.
Prior to the Civil War, two-thirds of the Army’s soldiers were immigrants, and the percentage of foreign-born during the ten years after the Civil War remained at 50 percent or higher.
www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/COS/15-21.htm   (2116 words)

  
 Combined Arms in battle since 1939
In his view, an army's most perishable skills were the ones learned in the hard school of combat itself, where a soldier's imagination, inventiveness, practicality, and common sense were of more value than any amount of school technique learned by rote.
Galvanic called for the 2d Marine Division, under the command of Major General Julian C. Smith, to land at Tarawa, while the Army's 27th Infantry Division landed at Makin atoll to the north and a smaller Marine unit landed at Abemama atoll to the south.
The Marines believed that they could land on a hostile beach and take their objective, but they had not yet proved that it could be done.
www-cgsc.army.mil /carl/resources/csi/Spiller/Spiller.asp   (18930 words)

  
 People's Liberation Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The People's Liberation Army's insignia consists of a round device with a red star bearing the Chinese characters for August 1 (Chinese:八一, Pinyin: bā yī), the date of the 1927 Nanchang Uprising, surrounded by wheat ears and cog wheels.
The People's Liberation Army was founded on August 1, 1927 during the Nanchang Uprising when troops of the Kuomintang (KMT) rebelled under the leadership of Zhu De and Zhou Enlai at the end of the first Kuomintang-Communist alliance, a fallout which developed into the Chinese Civil War.
The People's Republic of China is not a member of the Australia Group, an informal and voluntary arrangement made in 1985 to monitor developments in the proliferation of dual-use chemicals and to coordinate export controls on key dual-use chemicals and equipment with weapons applications.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peoples_Liberation_Army   (5668 words)

  
 Marine Corps News Room: September 2005 Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Part of Butler’s motivation in joining the Marine Corps instead of going straight to college and medical school was the deep sense of responsibility he felt in carrying on his family’s legacy of serving the Corps.
MARINE CORPS AIR STATION BEAUFORT, SC -- Master Sgt. Donald Parrish, the officer-in-charge of explosive ordnance disposal for Marine Wing Support Squadron 273, was awarded the Bronze Star Medal with combat distinguishing device for Valor for his actions in Iraq in a ceremony aboard the Air Station Sept. 14.
MARINE CORPS AIR STATION BEAUFORT, SC (Sept. 30, 2005) -- With the continuing increase in the cost of living today, and the strain placed on natural resources, the Air Station has been doing its part to conserve energy, and was recently awarded for its efforts.
www.marine-corps-news.com /2005/09   (15477 words)

  
 People's Liberation Army Navy - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) is the naval arm of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), the military of the People's Republic of China.
With Soviet assistance, the navy reorganized in 1954 and 1955 into the North Sea Fleet, East Sea Fleet, and South Sea Fleet, and a corps of admirals and other naval officers was established from the ranks of the ground forces.
The People's Liberation Army Navy is divided into three fleets.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/PLAN   (995 words)

  
 FMSO Document - Ground Combat at High Altitude
The Indian army characteristically conducts its acclimatization by having the battalion hike from its road head to the staging area.
Mules were part of the U.S. Army during World War II in Burma and Italy and were a critical element of the Mujahideen supply effort in the Soviet-Afghan war.
The Peruvian army moved its supplies from one small village to the next, using local villagers as porters to carry the supplies eventually to the fighting up on the Condor Cordillera.
fmso.leavenworth.army.mil /documents/groundcombat/groundcombat.htm   (4922 words)

  
 Veteran's Experiences
He describes how: "Two armies stood and faced each other in the hills with another damned winter coming out of Siberia." The two armies were the Chinese, about one million of them along with some North Korean troops, pitted against six American divisions and a small number of allied fighters, sent by the United Nations.
In the American army we received full rations of the same type of food that you have at home except for milk and eggs, which were usually powdered.
Breakfast in Bed: A Marine Veteran of late WWII I arrived in Korea as an Army 2d Lt. and was assigned to 1st Platoon, Heavy Mortar Co., 32d Infantry on line behind the Alligator Jaws.
korea50.army.mil /history/remember/index.shtml   (23443 words)

  
 The Navy in the Cold War Era, 1945-1991
This occurred when the "volunteers" of the Communist Chinese People's Liberation Army emerged from the snow-covered mountains of North Korea in November 1950 and fell upon overextended Army, Marine, and South Korean units.
The X Corps, which included the 1st Marine Division, the Army's 3rd and 7th Infantry Divisions, and three South Korean divisions of the I and II Corps had to fight their way back to the coast in bitter cold and howling winds.
During Desert Storm, Navy and Marine Corps aviation squadrons operated 600 aircraft, roughly a third of the overall coalition air force, and executed approximately one third of the combat sorties.
www.history.navy.mil /wars/coldwar-1.htm   (16112 words)

  
 J9636.HTM
They are movements and/or organizations which are made up of people with a cause or belief, a goal, or a perceived sense of right, many of them very much like you or I. Terrorists represent a dimension of behavior that can be said to be inherent in all of us, if provided the right motivation.
Crusader-Type terrorist organizations and their members usually strive to create a sense of political legitimacy in their actions, often claiming to be soldiers in "people's liberation fronts, or revolutionary Armies." Many have valid, historical grievances which can be empathized with, and sophisticated crusader-type terrorists capitalize on these issues to manipulate the electronic media.
One pattern identified in the study was that although terrorists sometimes kill at the start of an operation to demonstrate their resolve or capability fordestruction, they usually seek to influence attainment of their goal, and generally do not kill on a mass/indiscriminate scale.
das.cs.amedd.army.mil /journal/J9636.HTM   (7657 words)

  
 Results from Form 1 of Page hollywood/comments.htm
Something tells me that a lot of people will change their minds as the war goes on and they see the horrible things these people have had to endure by a leader that is no different from Adolf Hitler.
IF people are gullible enough to follow what the stars say then they are mindless drones who are not capable of putting their own thoughts into action.
The people of Bagdad and throughout the rest of the country do not know what it is to have their own opinion let alone to voice it out loud or to protest against they way they are being treated.
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 PARAMETERS, US Army War College Quarterly - Autumn 2005
Although their aims and methods differ from mainstream reformers or moderate Islamists, even some of the most radical extremists adopt the language of democratic activists when highlighting the authoritarianism, corruption, and incapacity of the regimes in question because it resonates with their target audience.
In this sense, liberalization is an attempt by the ruling power to defuse or preempt social, economic, or political crises to offset popular dissatisfaction with the government.
Nevertheless, it is dangerous to presuppose a linear progression from authoritarianism to liberal democracy in the Middle East.
www.carlisle.army.mil /usawc/Parameters/05autumn/zambelis.htm   (6430 words)

  
 PARAMETERS, US Army War College Quarterly - Winter 2005-06
In all three cases the stronger side relied on conscripted armies that incurred substantial casualties, and in a democracy there is nothing so toxic in weakening domestic political support for limited war as dead and maimed conscripts.
Marine Corps small-war expert Thomas X. Hammes points out that though war against an unconventional enemy “is the only kind of war America has ever lost,” the Defense Department “has largely ignored unconventional warfare.
The Army is in the midst of the most significant restructuring since World War II, as it moves to the Modular Force.
carlisle-www.army.mil /usawc/Parameters/05winter/record.htm   (6260 words)

  
 conservative-insurgent.blog-city.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
He or she is the soldier or marine who has pulled one or more tours of combat duty in Afghanistan or Iraq.
That's all most people need, and in most cases it will mean more than any medals they could have been awarded or were awarded.
In memory of them it is fitting that we who are Marines should commemorate the birthday of our corps by calling to mind the glories of its long and illustrious history.
www.conservative-insurgent.blog-city.com   (2475 words)

  
 Best Of CTS
In 1983 as a LtCol in the Sudanese Army, he led the revolt against the Khartoum regime, and has been fighting against the Islamic fundamentalists for over 16 years.
Sudan has been constantly in a state of civil war since 1983, and the primary opposition to the government's 118,000-man army is the SPLA led by John Garang.
The physical elimination, similar to the ethnic cleansing used in other countries, is a particular problem in the oil producing areas of Sudan where entire village populations are bombed and destroyed.
www.iacsp.com /a8.html   (1914 words)

  
 WHAT
By 2015, the Peoples Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) will probably number approximately seventy modern blue water surface combatants; two to three ballistic-missile armed submarines (SSBN); and twenty to thirty modern attack submarines, perhaps six of them nuclear-powered (SSN) and an impressive auxiliary fleet.
Its Marine Corps, recently expanded from one to two brigades.
The production and development of support vessels such as transport craft and landing ships was also being stepped up for transportation of men and materials in decent numbers to enhance strategic sea lift capabilities assisted by China’s growing mercantile fleet and excellent ship building facilities.
www.indiadefence.com /maritimeclash.htm   (2388 words)

  
 Battlefield2 Combat announced! - Halflife2.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
During registration, members will be able to select to enlist to fight for the Middle East Coalition, the United States Army or Marine Corps, or the Peoples’ Liberation Army.
Players can also join in groups of up to 50 and be assigned into the same unit, which will make it easy for clans or groups at LAN centers to play together.
Among BF2 Combat’s key highlights is the Ranger School; designed and directed by real ex-U.S. Army Rangers, the school will take the Battlefield 2 experience to the next level.
www.halflife2.net /forums/showthread.php?t=86337   (866 words)

  
 Small Wars Center of Excellence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
People’s Republic of China vs. Tibet (1959 to Present)
People’s Republic of China vs. Uighur or Xianjiang (1996 to Present)
Sudan vs. Sudanese Peoples Liberation Army (1983 to Present)
www.smallwars.quantico.usmc.mil /sw_today.asp   (582 words)

  
 Navy League of the United States - Citizens in Support of the Sea Services
The current costs of maintaining and operating the two Castle-class vessels is estimated at $87.7 million over a five-year period.
China’s Peoples Liberation Army Navy plans two additional classes of fast-attack craft, according to sources.
Concerned over the growing number and sophistication of Taiwan’s fast-attack craft force, China continues its program of replacing its own obsolescent force.
www.navyleague.org /sea_power/mar_04_43.php   (892 words)

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