3 days ago by T. CHRISTOPHER

I wasn’t “surprised” when I came across this. After all, we’ve been fighting in the mountains of Afghanistan and nation-building in Iraq for years, so we’re bound to be a little rusty, but I was particularly intrigued by the scope of the countries involved in the drills. British, Dutch, and French t ...

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57 days ago by RM

Source: Daily Mail Up to 13,500 British troops will protect the London Olympics from a terrorist atrocity, it was revealed today. The figure is 4,000 more than the number who currently serve in Afghanistan and will see bomb disposal experts, specialist sniffer dog handlers, building search teams and ...

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63 days ago by earthlinggb

Bring the boys back home: Because you’re using them. Bring the boys back home: Because you’re abusing them. Bring the boys back home: Because you’re lying to them. Bring the boys back home: Because you’re murdering them. Bring the boys back home: Because you’re poisoning them. Bring the boys back ho ...

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76 days ago by Francesca

Some footage and pics of the troops coming home. R.I.P those that didn’t return with everyone else. Track sang by George Michael

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88 days ago by SG

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95 days ago by James Lorenz

The city of Charleston, South Carolina, had always been a tough objective for an enemy, as Lord Cornwallis had already found in 1776, but the general was eager to try again. Cornwallis had long despised the hit-and-run strategy that Henry Clinton had been employing, and in the fall of 1779 he sold h ...

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105 days ago by Snafu

By September 1943, most of the British troops had moved out of the area and things were becoming slightly more normal. Suddenly there was great excitement with the arrival of American troops. They were mainly from the Southern states of America, especially Virginia, Georgia and Carolina. The first U ...

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130 days ago by Jonas

Helicopter Wars explores the extraordinary personal bravery and intense jeopardy of military missions where helicopter crews risk their own lives to come to the aid of others. Related posts: The Passionate Eye: Battlefield Afghanistan Blood and Dust Surviving the Cut

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132 days ago by James Lorenz

In a council of war, the American generals now worked out a four-way division of the army. The garrisons under General Greene already at forts Washington and Lee would try to continue to hold the lower Hudson. As a second line of defense for this essential waterway, 3,000-4,000 men under General Wil ...

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152 days ago by James Lorenz

CHAPTER THREE __________ THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR Had Americans been really as united and as determined as the stirring phrases of the Declaration of Independence had suggested, their revolution against King George would have quickly ended. After all, they already controlled 99 percent of the country; ...

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