Sublime

The fleet consisted of 259 ships, including 39 battleships and heavy cruisers, manned by 63,000 officers, sailors, and marines, with an annual budget of $144 million—roughly 20 percent of all federal expenditures.11 The British Admiralty ranked it third in the world (behind Great Britain and Germany), but the numbers concealed the antiquated design

In the air it was a similar mismatch. Kesselring’s forces possessed seven all-weather airfields in Tunisia plus nearby support bases in Sicily and Sardinia. By contrast, Allied aircraft operated from crude dirt fields at such a distance from the front that they could rarely stay more than ten minutes over the battlefield. German pilots and the

Airborne – In the military, this word is normally used to describe parachute troops and missions.

In 2004, US Army chief of staff Peter Schoomaker said, “I’ve thought for years the Army needed to transform its personnel system.”29 The Wardynski team published more than a half dozen monographs in their Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) series that took apart the HR system brick by brick and urged the army to transform “from an almost feudal