List of World War II articles
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U.S. navy aircraft on the deck of the USS Enterprise on the first day of the Battle of Midway. The Quantum Gap with China
China has ramped up its investment in developing quantum technologies, but few understand the impacts of losing this modern-day space race.
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The cast of the HBO miniseries "Band Of Brothers." (HBO via Getty Images) The beginning of ‘Band of Brothers’ as a primer on good military leadership
Band of Brothers is a miniseries about the exploits of the soldiers of E Company, 2/506 PIR (Parachute Infantry Regiment) from their initial training until the end of World War II in Europe.
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asan-beach-guam A World War II Marine looks back and wonders: Where’s the America of sharing?
I am now 91 years of age and it has been 70 long, wide years since I returned home on Christmas Eve, 1945.
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748px-L_to_R,_President_Truman,_George_C._Marshall,_Paul_Hoffman,_and_Averell_Harriman_in_the_oval_office_discussing_the..._-_NARA_-_200035 An Auspicious Anniversary for the Marshall Plan
Seventy years after George Marshall’s famous speech built the modern foundation of the transatlantic alliance, Donald Trump seems determined to tear it apart.
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RAF_Fighter_Command_1940_HU104450 1940: Middle-class pilots saved England, and what that meant for British politics
This is an excerpt from my new book, 'Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom.'
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russia parade crop In Pictures: Russia Shows Off Military Might in Massive WWII Victory Parade
Including a new Arctic air defense system.
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WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 22: U.S. President Donald Trump listens during a swearing in ceremony of White House senior staff in the East Room of the White House on January 22, 2017 in Washington, DC. Trump today mocked protesters who gathered for large demonstrations across the U.S. and the world on Saturday to signal discontent with his leadership, but later offered a more conciliatory tone, saying he recognized such marches as a "hallmark of our democracy." (Photo by Andrew Harrer-Pool/Getty Images) Trump’s Pox Americana
The new president has sounded an unprecedented retreat for the United States from its role as a world leader.
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kirsch Reading in the Dark
In the age of Trump, literature can sustain those searching for the courage to resist the politics of division.
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Russland-S¸d, Panzer III, Sch¸tzenpanzer, 23.Pz.Div. Wait a minute, it wasn’t ‘Time’ magazine that invented the term ‘blitzkrieg’?
I’d been taught that “blitzkrieg” was a pseudo-German term invented by the Anglo-American press to describe the emerging Nazi way of war.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) shakes hand with Czech President Milos Zeman on March 29, 2016, in Prague. / AFP / Michal Cizek (Photo credit should read MICHAL CIZEK/AFP/Getty Images) How a Meeting with the Dalai Lama Lost This Holocaust Survivor a Czech State Award
His nephew, a government minister, says the award was rescinded after a meeting with the Dalai Lama.
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GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - SEPTEMBER 10: "Yes" and "No" voters protest as John Prescott and Alistair Darling join the Scottish Labour Battle Bus on Rutherglen main street on September 10, 2014 in Glasgow, Scotland. The three UK party leaders are all campaigning in Scotland today showing their support for a "No" vote in the independence referendum. (Photo by Mark Runnacles/Getty Images) In A Year of Terrible Referendums, We Invite You to Vote on the World’s Very Worst
Now it's your turn to cast a ballot!
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wendell_willkie_testifying_-_may_17_1939 Once Upon a Time, Another Tycoon Stole the GOP
But unlike Donald Trump, Wendell Willkie was a powerful proponent of internationalism and America’s role as a global steward.
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asan-beach-guam A World War II Marine looks back and wonders: Where’s the America of sharing?
Best Defense is in summer reruns. Here is an item that originally ran on February 12, 2016.
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Memorial Day in Arlington National Cemetery 2015 Who pays for war
Here are the thoughts of Larry Kirby, a World War II Marine.
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800px-Oveta_Culp_Hobby_NYWTS Dipping into Gen. Marshall’s final papers: A decent man, not always treated decently
The mailboat the other day brought Volume 7 of the papers of Gen. George C. Marshall.
