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2019

Новости за 25.05.2019

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Navy Sailor Sentenced for Attempted Communication of Classified National Defense Information

Navy Sailor Sentenced for Attempted Communication of Classified National Defense Information FBI San Diego Special Agent Davene Butler U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Stephen Kellogg III was sentenced last Friday at a general court-martial to three years of confinement after pleading guilty to charges related to the illegal communication of national defense information. Kellogg …

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DOD: More Military Assets, Additional forces and capabilities to counter Iran “threat”

Department of Defense Briefing on Iran Katie Wheelbarger, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs; Vice Adm. Michael Gilday, Director of the Joint Staff ACTING ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE KATIE WHEELBARGER We wanted to take time today to make sure you understand the decision the secretary has made this morning.  In specific, …

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The Dutchman Who Saved 600 Children From the Nazis

Johan van Hulst Early Life and WWII  from the Jewish virtual library.  In 1942 van Hulst was the director of the Reformed Teacher Training College, a Protestant religious seminary in Amsterdam. The nearby Hollandse Schouwberg theatre was the main clearing site for the Jews living in Amsterdam who had been issued deportation notices by the Nazi …

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“This Hateful Thing”—The Berlin Wall Crisis, August 1961

What should I have done? More than 30,000 people, in fact the best and most qualified people from the [German Democratic Republic], left the country in July. You can easily calculate when the East German economy would have collapsed if we hadn’t done something soon against the mass flight. There were, though, only two kinds …

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The Bells of Balangiga: A Tale of Missed Opportunity

The Philippine-American War, 1899–1902 After its defeat in the Spanish-American War of 1898, Spainceded its longstanding colony of the Philippines to the United States in the Treaty of Paris. On February 4, 1899, just two days before the U.S. Senate ratified the treaty, fighting broke out between American forces and Filipino nationalists led by Emilio …

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Fire and Maneuver: The U.S. Infantry Revolution of 1918

Fire and Maneuver: The U.S. Infantry Revolution of 1918 DAVID SCOTT STIEGHAN Editor’s Note: This article first appeared in the Fall 2018 The greatest revolution in U.S. Infantry tactics and organization occurred in 1918 in preparation for combat on the Western Front during World War I. The U.S. Army and Marine Corps finally transformed from …

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Why WA Antis Should Be Embarrassed by Wenatchee Groin Shooter

Why WA Antis Should Be Embarrassed by Wenatchee Groin Shooter May 24, 2019 By Dave Workman While people are laughing hysterically about the Wenatchee, Wash., felon who is in big trouble with the law after shooting himself in the genitals last month, the case should be embarrassing for Evergreen State anti-gunners whose legislative schemes and …