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Tom Austen
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The forces he led or advised attacked the Medina railway and captured Akaba and ultimately Damascus as well. Even after they linked up with the regular forces pushing east out of the Sinai, Lawrence’s irregulars continued to operate as the right wing of the British Army.165
A. R. B. Linderman • Rediscovering Irregular Warfare
Princeton is very polite. And it elicits rage. Until 2020 the policy school was named after avowed racist, and former president of both the university and the United States, Woodrow Wilson. The students who protested the name of the school in the late 2010s called themselves the Black Justice League. The “BJL” posted Wilson’s racist words around
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Jack Scott
@ajdscott
Randolph joined a parachute detachment of the Special Air Service (SAS) formed by Major David Stirling to fight behind enemy lines in the Western Desert.
Andrew Roberts • Churchill: Walking with Destiny
Ulysses S. Grant was the first general in American history to wear four stars as a full general. George Washington wore three as a lieutenant general. And John J. Pershing had worn six as General of the Armies.
Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
The legacy of this quintessential man-behind-the-scenes indeed endures. As Black Jack Pershing’s chief of operations and Dwight Eisenhower’s mentor, Fox Conner left an unmistakable imprint upon his nation’s military history. Were they alive today, Pershing and Eisenhower, as well as George Marshall and George Patton—all titans of 20th-century
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Robert Rogers led his rangers through unimaginable hardships in the wilderness war in North America. A generation later during the Revolution, Nathanael Greene lost virtually every pitched battle he fought, yet he kept coming at Lord Cornwallis and his Redcoats to distract them and create new and better opportunities for his dispersed guerrilla
... See moreJohn Arquilla • Insurgents, Raiders, and Bandits
Johnson’s voting record—a record twenty years long, dating back to his arrival in the House of Representatives in 1937 and continuing up to that very day—was consistent with the accent and the word. During those twenty years, he had never supported civil rights legislation—any civil rights legislation. In Senate and House alike, his record was an
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