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  • ...tice]]''. His writings helped shape the political landscape of the United States and Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and continue to be in ...pprenticed to his father. In 1756, he left home and set out for [[London, United Kingdom]] as a journeyman staymaker. This endeavor did not last long, howe
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  • Senator ([[Republican Party (United States)|R-]][[Alabama (U.S. state)]]) '''Jeff Sessions''' (1946-) is the ranking | publisher = United States Senate}}</ref>
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  • ...The Forgotten Soldier | publisher = Potomac Books, Inc.| location = United States|isbn=9781574882865}} 2000 Edition, </ref> ...he Forgotten Soldier | publisher = Potomac Books, Inc. | location = United States |isbn=9781574882865}} 2000 Edition, pp 30</ref>
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  • ...ndicted or even held. [[Seizo Arisue]], the last wartime chief of Japanese Army intelligence, who worked with U.S. occupation forces, recruited him into c | chapter = Chapter 8: The Intelligence that Wasn't: CIA Name Files, the U.S. Army, and Intelligence Gathering in Occupied Japan
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  • | 321 (20 officers, 301 men), plus 255 embarked troops ...n]] between the 16th and 18th. On the 19th, the ship embarked 200 [[United States Marine Corps|Marines]] and 514&nbsp;tons of cargo; and, on the 27th, she sa
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  • .... Johnson]]. He was a key architect of the overt combat role of the United States in the [[Vietnam War]], although he lost confidence in U.S. policy and resi ...returned to the Harvard Business School, teaching from 1940 to joining the Army Air Forces in 1943 as a captain.
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  • ...uch more limited role in the Pacific, primarily in China. [[General of the Army]] [[Douglas MacArthur]] essentially banned the OSS from his [[Southwest Pac | chapter = Chapter 8: The Intelligence that Wasn't: CIA Name Files, the U.S. Army, and Intelligence Gathering in Occupied Japan
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  • ...ll was graduated from West Point in 1904, and eagerly made a career in the Army. Stilwell spent years at West Point teaching French and Spanish, tactics, E Stilwell, already noted for his language skills, became the army's first language officer in China, with service in Beijing (1920-1923), wh
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  • ...n]] contract, sponsored by Mrs. P. A. Peeples; transferred to the [[United States Navy|Navy]] on 1 February 1944; converted by [[Bethlehem Steel Corporation] ...carried General [[Holland Smith|Holland M. "Howlin Mad" Smith]], [[United States Marine Corps|USMC]], and his staff, and [[Secretary of the Navy]] [[James F
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  • ...f the Confederacy]] for descendants of soldiers serving in the Confederate Army. Numerous instances of individuals portrayed in the monuments were also mem ...ement has provoked a variety of responses. For example, the website of the United Daughters of the Confederacy contained the following statement in January,
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  • | nationality = [[United States of America]] '''Melvin Bell''' was a sailor who served in the [[United States Coast Guard]], and was the first Pacific Island sailor in the Coast Guard t
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  • ...olilad County, one hundred miles southeast of San Antonio, Texas, [[United States of America|USA]]. It was the apex of a series of ill-timed events resulting ...ance” on 12 February 1836. Their purpose was to guard against the Mexican army’s advance into the interior of the Texas colonies. The fort covered about
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  • | 395 (62 officers, 333 men), plus embarked troops ...SS-338)]]. While en route, the ships conducted joint exercises, exchanging officers between the ships at various intervals to enable them to each observe the d
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  • ...rs of the [[Department of Defense]] and the senior officials of the United States armed services, but the Department long ago exceeded the space inside the f ...vy and Air Force; and the immediate offices of the [[Chief of Staff of the Army]], [[Chief of Naval Operations]], and Commandant of the Marine Corps.
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  • ...gency'',<ref name = FM3-24>{{citation | publisher = US Department of the Army | url = http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm3-24.pdf}}</ref> he believes the subject is ever-developing and needs mod
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  • ...nation was formed on July 4, 1776, but its government (called "the United States in Congress assembled") operated until 1781 without a written constitution. ...dams]] in Massachusetts and [[Patrick Henry]] in Virginia tried to achieve united opposition to British policies. The colonies, without British permission, f
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  • ...1814, President James Madison proposed conscription of 40,000 men for the army, but the War of 1812 ended before Congress took any action. ...ilies used the substitute provision to select which man should go into the army and which should stay home. There was much evasion and overt resistance to
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  • ...ter for the Study of Intelligence; and consulted with retired intelligence officers who were directly involved. From this information, a retrospective report a ...ile date back to the late 1950s and reflect the rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union for influence throughout the Third World. The growing
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  • ...to the United States and the Republic of Korea. In the case of the United States, the failure to anticipate may well have been the lack of senior government | title = United States Army in the Korean War, Policy and Direction: the First Year
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  • | title = Lucien E. Conein, Lieutenant Colonel, United States Army ...ventional warfare (United States doctrine)|guerrilla role of United States Army Special Forces, he landed behind German lines in Southern France in 1944. H
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