It happens again and again. When LBJ sent the first Marine Corps infantry battalions to Da Nang in 1965 to protect the air base it was to appease domestic political pressure. He had to "do...
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Strategy and Operations
It happens again and again. When LBJ sent the first Marine Corps infantry battalions to Da Nang in 1965 to protect the air base it was to appease domestic political pressure. He had to "do...
Neither the U.S. Army Surgeon-General nor his...
Neither the U.S. Army Surgeon-General nor his Medical Department run the U.S. Army -- but the conbat arms gunfighters in positions of high command do. The current policies on force protection go...
Let Medics Be Medics
The use of statistics on morbidity and mortality is quite common in medical publications such as the New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet. Occasionally those data shed light on positive...
That's one of the verities of the profession that...
That's one of the verities of the profession that is repeated again and again when one reads military history. "Tiger tanks, hundreds of 'em ... "
By the way, that JRX at Eglin AFB in '83 turned...
By the way, that JRX at Eglin AFB in '83 turned into the invasion of Grenada. Those of us playing in the FTX war games at Eglin were the reinforcements to be deployed just in case the Cubans had...
Dead Command Nets?
That bothers me. I can't imagine command radio nets not being monitored. I was on a JRX at Eglin AFB in 1983 where a logistics TOC had a remote unit connected to an AN/VRC 46 radio mounted in an...