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Some military quotes survive because they captured a decision made under fire. Others lasted because they explained war, leadership or sacrifice in a sentence short enough to carry across generations. This list favors lines with strong historical sourcing. A few are preserved through later eyewitness accounts, which is noted where necessary. Widely shared quotations with disputed or invented attributions were left out.​ Military Museum: Statue of Sun Tzu, Ancient Weapons special exhibit. (Gary Todd from Xinzheng, China, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons) 1. “Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.” Sun Tzu The heart of The Art of War: victory…
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Most people assume the World War II draft began the day after Pearl Harbor. It didn’t. The United States started conscripting men more than a year before it entered the war, and the rules that governed who got called up changed dramatically once it did. Whether you’d have gone depends heavily on which version of the draft you’re asking about. The First Peacetime Draft in American History On Sept. 16, 1940, with France already fallen and Britain under siege, President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Selective Training and Service Act, commonly called the Burke-Wadsworth Act. It required all men between 21…
One of the things that I believe should be uncontroversial is the idea of making schools terrible targets for would-be mass killers. Armed teachers, hardened schools, armed security- nothing should be off the table in making schools virtual fortresses that can be unwelcoming places for those who want to murder our children. And yeah, I guess that includes pepper spray-wielding drones, as Cam talked about a couple of months back. Then, the drones were set to be tested in a Georgia high school.Now, they’re being deployed elsewhere.How do we combat the scourge of school shootings?…
A Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II crashed Friday morning at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, sending black smoke above the base and igniting a brush fire near the flight line. The pilot ejected before impact and reached a local hospital in stable condition with non-life-threatening injuries. The aircraft went down at approximately 10 a.m. south of Miramar Road near Mitscher Way, according to Times of San Diego. The Marine Corps classified the incident as a Class A mishap but has not announced a cause, identified the pilot or disclosed what the aircraft was doing before the crash…
Retired Army Col. Bruce P. Crandall, who flew an unarmed helicopter through heavy fire into the Ia Drang Valley repeatedly to bring out the wounded, died at his Tempe, Ariz., home on May 31. He was 93. The Congressional Medal of Honor Society announced his death. Crandall received the nation’s highest award for valor for what he did on Nov. 14, 1965, when American and North Vietnamese regular forces met in their first major battle. By the end of that day, then-Maj. Crandall had flown into Landing Zone X-Ray 22 times, going back long after the ground commander had closed…
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Former service members often build second careers using skills they acquired in uniform. Many become airline pilots, defense contractors, consultants, or instructors. Some work overseas. Yet under certain circumstances, providing military-related training or expertise to a foreign military can expose a veteran to federal criminal liability. The legal framework behind those cases is more complicated than a simple prohibition on teaching foreign troops. Instead, it stems from U.S. export-control laws that treat certain military assistance as a regulated export. The State Department regulates the export and temporary import of defense articles and defense services under authority granted by Congress in…
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For a while, gun control was a non-starter at the federal level. President Barack Obama wanted it, but he knew that Congress would never pass it. He did a few executive orders on guns, tried to make it look like we were responsible for the violence in Mexico–and did it by making FFL holders conduct straw sales knowing full well those guns were going to the cartels–but otherwise wasn’t able to do much of anything. Things didn’t stay that way, though, because mass shootings happened and the media convinced America that gun control was needed,…
Federal prosecutors have charged a California technology executive with participating in a years-long scheme to acquire U.S.-made networking, security and encryption equipment and supply it to customers in Iran, including organizations tied to the country’s nuclear and military establishments. The U.S. Department of Justice announced June 3 that Jamshid Ghomi, 63, of Newport Coast, Calif., was arrested and charged with conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or IEEPA. Prosecutors allege Ghomi, a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen plus founder, owner and CEO of Tehran-based Faraz Pardaz Rayaneh Co. Ltd. (FPR), used the company to procure restricted American technology for…
Gun control laws are terrible at preventing crime, and by their very nature they’re almost impossible to proactively enforce by themselves. If a violent felon is carrying a gun concealed underneath his shirt and jacket, for instance, cops aren’t going to know that unless he gives them a pretext to stop and frisk him. Or, as another example, when someone is pulled over for a traffic stop. A 17-year-old was arrested Wednesday after police recovered a loaded ghost gun during a traffic stop, authorities said.Members of the Holyoke Police Narcotics Unit and the DEA Springfield Task…
