military history

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/19/19
  

  75 Years After World War II Theft, a Painting Returns to Italy

  75 years after a German soldier made off with it, the small “Vase of Flowers” by Jan van Huysum returned. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/19/19
  

  U.S. Ship Sunk in World War II by German Sub Is Found Off Maine Coast

  The U.S.S. Eagle PE-56, which lost 49 of 62 crew members, was located by a civilian dive team.

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• 7/21/19
  

  "If ever I felt that I ought to be five priests it was that week:" Chaplains in World War 2

  by John Wukovits

  Though they conducted many rigorous tasks, the chaplains cherished the knowledge that they had comforted dying young men, and subsequently their families, in their final moments.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  7/16/19
  

  Eisenhower's Worst Nightmare

  by William D. Hartung

  When, in his farewell address in 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned of the dangers of the “unwarranted influence” wielded by the “military-industrial complex,” he could never have dreamed of an arms-making corporation of the size and political clout of Lockheed Martin.

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• 7/14/19
  

  The Civil War Battle Decided By A General's Mistakes

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  The battle for Lynchburg, Virginia, a pivotal city in the Civil War, was decided by one general's mistakes.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Beast
  7/9/19
  

  The War Against Endless War Heats Up With Koch-Soros Salvo

  by Ronald Radosh

  The otherwise ideologically opposed billionaires are the latest unlikely pair to find common ground in the idea that American power is the root cause of the world’s problems.

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• SOURCE: Politico Magazine
  7/5/19
  

  How Fake News Could Lead to Real War

  by Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon

  We think of false information as a domestic problem. It’s much more dangerous than that.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  7/9/19
  

  The Riptide of American Militarism

  by William Astore

  As Americans wrestled with the possibility of finding themselves in a second looming world war, what advice did the CFR have for then-President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1940?

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• 7/7/19
  

  Flight Girls: Remembering World War 2's Women Airforce Service Pilots

  by Noelle Salazar 

  "I was stunned by anecdotes of bravery, death and outright misogyny. And I was baffled the subjects of these stories had tried to be heard, but still, seventy-seven years later, for the most part were unknown to the greater public."

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• 7/7/19
  

  The End of Humanitarian Intervention? A Debate at the Oxford Union With Historian David Gibbs and Michael Chertoff

  by David N. Gibbs

  Michael Chertoff -- former Secretary of Homeland Security during the presidency of George W. Bush and coauthor of the USA Patriot Act – defended humanitarian intervention; Gibbs argued against the practice. 

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• 6/30/19
  

  Colin Powell’s Recent “Lincoln Medal” Disregards A Checkered Past

  by Jeffrey J. Matthews

  Powell’s outstanding service as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff notwithstanding, the perpetual lionizing of the general has had the effect of misbalancing the historical record. Despite of—or because of—his popularity and patriotic achievements, Powell has not been held to account for some of his major failings as a public servant.

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• 6/30/19
  

  Presidential War Powers and Bill Clinton's Battles

  by Paul W. Lovinger

  Reviewing the 1999 attack on Yugoslavia and other belligerent acts: a study of arbitrary power and its supremacy over the Constitution in modern times.

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• SOURCE: The National Interest
  6/16/2019
  

  America's M4 Sherman Tank: World War II Wonder Weapon or Blunder Weapon?

  Because of its propensity to catch fire, the Sherman soon gained several nicknames. “Tommycooker” (which was a World War I trench cooker), “Ronsons” (a la the cigarette lighter that were guaranteed in their ads to “Light up the first time, every time!”), and also what the Free Poles called “The Burning Grave.”

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/17/2019
  

  World War II Planes Can Still Fly, but Who Will Keep Them Flying?

  As generations of pilots and mechanics age, will there be enough young people to keep the planes flying?

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian.com
  6/3/19
  

  The Invention That Won World War II

  by David Kindy

  Patented in 1944, the Higgins boat gave the Allies the advantage in amphibious assaults that was vital to victory on D-Day. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/5/19
  

  What D-Day teaches us about the difficulty — and importance — of resistance

  by Sonia Purnell

  For four years, a few French citizens fought a losing battle. Then they won.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  5/29/19
  

  The Making of the Military-Intellectual Complex

  by Daniel Bessner

  Why is U.S. foreign policy dominated by an unelected, often reckless cohort of “the best and the brightest”?

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  6/6/19
  

  Of Crimes and Pardons

  by Rebecca Gordon

  The United States was not always so reluctant to put national leaders on trial for their war crimes. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/6/19
  

  Trump and world leaders remember D-Day

  Dozens of American veterans of D-Day were among other veterans and their families on a stage erected within the semicircular stone memorial at the Normandy American Cemetery.

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• SOURCE: Fox
  6/2/19
  

  Video of the Week: Remembering D-Day 75th Anniversary Special

  June 6, 2019 marks the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings and the beginning of the Battle for Normandy.