Lessons of History and Lessons of Vietnam DaviD H. Petraeus This article was first published in the Autumn 1986 issue of Parameters. One of the few unequivocally sound lessons of history is that the lessons we should learn are usually learned imperfectly if at all. —Bernard Brodie1 Trying to use the lessons of the past correctly poses two dilemmas. One is the problem of balance: knowing how much to rely on the past as a guide and how much to ignore it. The other is the problem of selection: certain
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After high school‚ Rommel Jr. was thinking of applying to the Zeppelin works at Friederichshafen‚ but his father‚ the ex-artillery officer‚ advised him to go to the army instead. In July‚ 1910‚ Rommel became a cadet with the 124th Wurttemberg Infantry Regiment in the 26th InfantryDivision of the German Imperial Infantry.He served as cadet in the Army until March 1911.Then he attended the prestigious military academy Konigliche Kriegsschule in Danzig and he left the academy in November of
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BATTLE OF MEIKTILA INTRODUCTION 1. Gentlemen‚ I welcome you all in today ’s study period on "Battle of Meiktila" in the context of Burma Campaign. The significance of Burma Campaign in the course of world war II was of equal importance from both Allied and Axis points of view as that of other theatres of war. Burma was turned into the theatre of war during the third year of the world war II. Two major regional powers‚ one Asian ie Japan and another European ie Great Britain fought this
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Storm; to free Kuwait. The book serves as an insight into the organization of the Light Armored Infantry Battalions (LAI) s where the LAV-25 and its variants serve. The vehicle’s combat experience will influence the future utilization of the US military’s largest number of wheeled armored vehicles. The Marines have used the LAV flexibly in its role of reconnaissance‚ mechanized infantry‚ or infantry support. The
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ARAB ISRAEL WAR (06 Oct -– 24 Oct 73) General 1. The war between the Arabs and the Israel which broke out in the Middle East on 6 Oct‚ 1973 is known to the Arabs as the War of Ramadan to the Israelis as the Yom Kippur War and generally to the others in the West as the Oct war. The Arabs tried to regain their territories lost in the earlier wars against Israel. After the defeat of 1956 war Egypt was helped by the Soviet Union and began to rebuild her armed forces from the grd up. Conti for six
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served as a senior staff officer in the infamous Iron Division. Then he was selected for staff job with the Inspectorate of Transport Troops‚ the office responsible for selecting tactical uses of motorized infantry in combat and the use of motor transport. He became an asset in the motorized infantry studies but much to his disappointment‚ he was later assigned to the mundane jobs of construction‚ fuel supply and other technical jobs. Unbeknownst to him then these three experiences would later be
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The swift and relentless Fall of France came as a great shock to the established world of 1940. France‚ in all her glory‚ had always been a European powerhouse‚ the only to rival Britain. The Fall of France was a pivotal loss for the Allied forces as it knows provided Nazi Germany the ability to launch an assault on Britain and provided the Nazis control of the coast of most of the coast of Europe. The Fall of France can be attributed to the effectiveness of Germany tactics‚ specifically Blitzkrieg
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In August of 1990‚ Saddam Hussein‚ the Dictator of Iraq‚ invaded the small neighboring country of Kuwait with goals to acquire profitable oil supplies. By attempting to control over one-fifth of the world’s oil supply‚ Hussein also posed an immediate threat to other powers in the Persian Gulf. George H.W. Bush‚ the American President at the time‚ responded to the tension stating‚ “this will not stand‚” resulting in Operation Desert Storm. SOURCE The causes leading up to Operation Desert Storm
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The opposing forces on D-day were composed of 12 infantry battalions supported by the air fire support and other combat support units from the Joint Task Force South as against the four PDF battalions dispersed into company size units‚ composed of a mixture of military‚ police and paramilitary personnel‚ all over the country. An addition of six (6) more infantry battalions would follow in the course of the operation. Clearly the forces of President Noriega
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Operation Bagration: The “Unknown” D-Day At the Tehran Conference‚ the first World War II conference amongst the Big Three: the Soviet Union‚ the United States‚ and the United Kingdom the final plan to defeat Nazi Germany was agreed upon in unison. As promised at the Tehran Conference at the end of 1943‚ as the United States revealed the date for their Western offense‚ the Red Army began planning a powerful offensive to coincide with it. Operation Bagration‚ the main summer offensive of 1944
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