| Israel military trains for strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. |
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| Israel carried out a major military exercise earlier this month that American officials say appeared to be a rehearsal for a potential bombing attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Several American officials said the Israeli exercise appeared to be an effort to develop the military’s capacity to carry out long-range strikes and to demonstrate the seriousness with which Israel views Iran’s nuclear program.
More than 100 Israeli F-16 and F-15 fighters participated in the maneuvers. |
Posted at 6/20/2008 by yojimbo
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| Al-Jazeera Spoof |
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| Gotta hear it . . . . |
Posted at 6/18/2008 by Al-Nofi
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| NYMAS Friday talk, June 20th -- "Recruiting Churchills Army: What Went Wrong?" |
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| On Friday, June 20th, NYMAS will host its own Dan David, who will be speaking on "Recruiting Churchills Army: What Went Wrong?"
NYAMS talks are free to the public. They are held at the CUNY Graduate Center, Fifth Avenue at 34th Street, in New York City.
Talks begin at 7:00 and last about two hours. |
Posted at 6/15/2008 by Al-Nofi
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| NYMA lecture, June 13th -- "How Lee Lost & Grant Won the Civil War"
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| On Friday, Juen 13th, NYAMS will host Ed H. Bonekemper, III, who will speak on the subject of his new book, "How Lee Lost & Grant Won the Civil War"
NYMAS Talks, which are free to the public, are held at the CUNY Graduate Center, Fifth Avenue and 34th Street, in Manhattan.
Talks begin at 7:00 pm and last about two hours |
Posted at 6/9/2008 by Al-Nofi
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| InshaAllah |
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| Commentary from an advisor to the new Iraqi army, on the difficulties of getting them combat-ready. Its an interview for the book "Gods Will". Enlightening. |
Posted at 6/7/2008 by kyfho23
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| No Greater Honor: Sergeant First Class Paul Ray Smith winner of the CMH |
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| Over the decades, the Medal of Honor—the highest award for valor—has evolved into the U.S. military equivalent of sainthood. Only eight Medals of Honor have been awarded since the Vietnam War, all posthumously. “You don’t have to die to win it, but it helps,” says Army Colonel Thomas P. Smith. A West Point graduate from the Bronx, Smith has a unique perspective. He was a battalion commander in Iraq when one of his men performed actions that resulted in the Medal of Honor. It was then-Lieutenant Colonel Smith who pushed the paperwork for the award through the Pentagon bureaucracy, a two-year process.
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Posted at 6/3/2008 by yojimbo
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| Current issue of "Guard Times," the official magazine of the New York State Military Forces, is available |
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| This issue of "Guard Times" has a homeland protection focus and makes a strong case for the role of the state defense force in the performance of this mission, in this case the New York Guard. |
Posted at 6/2/2008 by Al-Nofi
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| Airborne laser weapons heating up |
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| Boeing this week said it had completed its first Airborne Laser (ABL) missile laser activation testing on the ground at Edwards Air Force Base.
The ABL system is a infrared, megawatt-class, high-energy Chemical Oxygen Iodine Laser (COIL) installed inside a modified Boeing 747-400F aircraft to detect, track and destroy ballistic missiles as they lift off and head toward the atomosphere. |
Posted at 6/1/2008 by yojimbo
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| NYMAS Friday talk, June 6, "Omar Bradley''s D-Day"
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| On Friday, June 6th, NYMAS will host John Prados, of the National Security Archive, who will be speaking, appropriately, on the subject of "Omar Bradley''s D-Day."
NYMAS talks are free to the public. They are held at the CUNY Graduate Center, Fifth Avenue at 34th Street, in mid-town Manhattan.
Talks beign at 7:00 and usually last about two hours. |
Posted at 5/31/2008 by Al-Nofi
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| NYMAS Friday Talk, May 30, "The Forgotten Cavalier
George Goring: The English Civil War (1642 - 1646)" |
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| On Friday, May 30th, NYMAS will host Prof. Florene Memegalos, of Hunter College, who will speak about "The Forgotten Cavalier
George Goring: The English Civil War (1642 - 1646)"
NYMAS talks are free to the public. They are held at the CUNY Graduate Center, at Fifth Avenue and 34th Street in Manhattan. Talks begin at 7:00 and last about two hours. |
5/26/2008 by Al-Nofi
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| "Wartime naval legend HMS Exeter found off Java" |
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| Over 66 years after they went down off Java, the wrecks of the heavy cruiser HMS Exeter an done of her escorting destroyers have been found. |
5/19/2008 by Al-Nofi
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| NYMAS Friday talk, May 23 – “From Bucharest to the Baltic: German Air Operations on the Eastern Front, 1916-1917” |
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| On Friday evening, May 23, NYMAS will host Prof. Richard L. DiNardo, of the U.S.M.C. Command & Staff College, a veteran NYMAS member. Prof. DiNardo''s talk is titled, “From Bucharest to the Baltic: German Air Operations on the Eastern Front, 1916-1917”
NYMAS talks are free to the public. They are held at the CUNY Graduate Center, at Fifth Avenue and 34th Street in Manhattan.
Talks begin at 7:00 and last about two hours.
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5/18/2008 by Al-Nofi
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| NYMAS Friday talk, May 16 -- "Gouverneur Kemble Warren: The Final Casualty of the Civil War" |
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| On Friday, May 9th, NYMAS will host Frank Varney, of William Paterson University of New Jersey, who will speak on "Gouverneur Kemble Warren: The Final Casualty of the Civil War"
NYMAS talks are free to the public. They are held at the CUNY Graduate Center, Fifth Avenue at 34th Street, New York City
Talks begin at 7:00 p.m., and last about two hours. |
5/10/2008 by Al-Nofi
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| News video of Chinese Sub base in China Sea |
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| This is a fox news video of a new Chinese Sub base inside a man made cave and includes outside docks for possible Chinese Carriers |
5/6/2008 by William Amos
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| NYMAS lecture, Friday May 9 -- "The Perils of Peace: America''s Struggle for Survival After Yorktown" |
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| On Friday, May 9th, NYMAS will host noted historian and author Thomas Fleming, who will speak on "The Perils of Peace: America''s Struggle for Survival After Yorktown"
NYMAS talks are free to the public. They are held at the CUNY Graduate Center, Fifth Avenue at 34th Street, New York City
Talks begin at 7:00 p.m., and last about two hours. |
5/4/2008 by Al-Nofi
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| 1 Great Marine |
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| This Marine ragives a rap version of his view on the GWOT...
which sent shivers through the body, and a tear down the cheek of this hammer swinging, whiskey drinking, rock & rolling redneck.
Salute |
5/1/2008 by PlatypusMaximus
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| "The Patton of Counterinsurgency" |
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| Writting in the Weekly Standard, Frederick W. and Kimberly Kagan tag General Raymond Odierno with the moniker "Patton of Counterinsurgency" |
4/23/2008 by jimbomo
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| NYMAS Talk, April 18, "Rebellion in the Ranks:
Mutinies of the American Revolution" |
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| On Friday, April 18th, NYMAS will host autrhor John A. Nagy, a member of the American Revolution Round Table of Philadelphia, who will speak on "Rebellion in the Ranks: Mutinies of the American Revolution"
NYMAS talks are free to the public. They are held at the CUNY Graduate Center, Fifth Avenue at 34th Street, New York City
Talks begin at 7:00 p.m., and last about two hours. Afterwards, all and sundry usually decamp to a local eatery to wine and dine the speaker. |
4/17/2008 by Al-Nofi
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| BASRA ''RISING'' WAS TEHRAN''S OP |
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| From NY Post: Iran''s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) tried to seize control of Iraq''s second-largest city using local Shiite militias as a Trojan horse.
The hoped-for victory was to be achieved as part of a massive Shiite uprising spreading from Baghdad to the south via heartland cities such as Karbala, Kut and al-Amarah. A barrage of rockets and missiles against the "Green Zone" in Baghdad and armed attacks on a dozen police stations and Iraqi army barracks in the Shiite heartland were designed to keep the Maliki government under pressure. |
4/10/2008 by yojimbo
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| Combat Studies Institute |
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| A great site. Lots of good documents. Recommend clicking on the GWOT Oral History Program for some excellent interviews. |
4/2/2008 by Desertmole
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| NYMAS talk, April 4th, "French Military Expertise
and the U.S. Army, 1801-1830" |
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| On Friday, April 4th, NYMAS will host Major Mike Bonura, of the United States Military Academy at West Point, who will be speaking on "French Military Expertise and the U.S. Army, 1801-1830"
NYMAS talks are free to the public. They are held at the CUNY Graduate Center, 34th Street and Fifth Avenue, in Manhattan.
Talks being at 7:00 and last about two hours. |
4/1/2008 by Al-Nofi
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| Why New Iraq Movie "Stop Loss" flopped |
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| Some pretty interesting comments |
3/30/2008 by bugmaster
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| Awesome opener for an air show |
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| Don''t know where this took place, but a high school chum who did 30 years in USAF just passed it on. |
3/28/2008 by Al-Nofi
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| NYMAS talk, March 28, "Kandahar Tour: The Royal Canadian Regiment in Afghanistan, 2007" |
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| On Friday, March 28th, NYMAS will host Lee Windsor, of the Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society, the University of New Brunswick, who will speak on "Kandahar Tour: The Royal Canadian Regiment in Afghanistan, 2007"
NYMAS talks are free to the public. They are held at the CUNY Graduate Center, Fifth Avenue at 34th Street, New York City
Talks begin at 7:00 and last about two hours. |
3/27/2008 by Al-Nofi
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| India''s Missile Revolution |
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| Though India, perhaps is the first country in the world where missiles were used in war (by Tipu Sultan against the British), India woke up to its potential much later. China, in order to ascertain its No. 1 position in Asia, created a strategic black hole for India—Pakistan. It utilized the pathological Pak-hatred against India to its full advantage. |
3/15/2008 by MT Mukherjee
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| NYMAS Lecture, March 7 -- J. F. Dunnigan speaking on "Where Have All the Wars Gone?" |
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| On Friday, March 7th, NYMAS will host StrategyPage''s own James F. Dunnigan, who will be speaking on "Where Have All the Wars Gone?"
NYMAS talks are free to the public. They are held at the CUNY Graduate Center, on Fifth Avenue at 34th Street, in midtown Manhattan.
Talks begin at 7:00 and last about two hours.
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3/2/2008 by Al-Nofi
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| The Man Who Shot Down the Missile |
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| Excerpts of an interview conducted by US News with Captain R.M. Hendrickson of the USS Lake Eerie, which recently shot down an out of control satellite. |
2/28/2008 by Burke G Sheppard
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| NYMAS talk, Feb 29th -- "Line in the Wilderness: The Adaptation of European Military Theory to British North America."
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| On Friday, Feb 29th, NYMAS will host Major Mark Olsen, of the United States Military Academy at West Point, who will be speaking on "Line in the Wilderness: The Adaptation of European Military Theory to British North America."
NYMAS talks are free to the public. They are held at the CUNY Graduate Center, Fifth Avenue at 34th Street, in mid-town Manhattan.
Talks begin at 7:00 p.m. and last about two hours.
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2/24/2008 by Al-Nofi
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| America’s Destruction of the Control Spy Satellite US 193 |
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| Feb. 21, the US military destroyed a defunct and out-of –control spy satellite US 193 with a specially designed SM3 ballistic missile with pin-point accuracy. It was an unprecedented mission for the navy, so extraordinary that the final go ahead to launch the missile was reserved for Defense Secretary Robert Gates rather than a military commander. |
2/23/2008 by MT Mukherjee
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| NYMAS Talk, Feb 22 -- "The 2nd Massachusetts Infantry, 1861-1865: Who Fought and Why" |
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| On Friday, February 22nd, NYMAS will host Major Matt Hardman, of the United States Military Academy at West Point, who will be speaking on "
The 2nd Massachusetts Infantry, 1861-1865: Who Fought and Why."
NYMAS talks are free to the public. They are held at the CUNY Graduate Center, Fifth Avenue between 34th and 35th St, in midtown Manhattan.
Talks begin at 7:00 and normally last about two hours. |
2/19/2008 by Al-Nofi
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| Russia’s Psycho-war against India |
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| Riding on oil, gas and arms export Russia is rising like a phoenix and is trying to build a world order parallel to the one conceived by the USA. In doing so, it has unleashed an intense, carefully calculated and calibrated psycho-war especially against the USA and India. |
2/17/2008 by MT Mukherjee
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| Bluffer''s Guide to Nork Air Defense |
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| Extensive discussion of North Korea''s air defenses, including their layout, weapons, and equipment, accompanied by Google Earth photos of Nork Air Defense emplacements. |
2/16/2008 by Burke G Sheppard
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| India Launches Israeli Spy Satellite Tesar |
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| India’s launch of the Israeli spy satellite, Tesar or Polaris on Jan 21, equipped with synthetic aperture radar which can take pictures of the earth through day and night, cloud and rain 365 days of the year holds special significance at a time when India is striving to build its own aerospace command. The quiet launch of the satellite contains multifaceted significance. The significances can be enlisted as follows:- |
2/16/2008 by MT Mukherjee
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| NYMAS Tale, Feb 15 "Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965" |
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| On Friday, Feb 15th, NYAMS will host Mark Moyar, of the Marine Corps University, who will be speaking on "Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War
1954-1965,"
NYMAS talks are free to the public. They are held at the CUNY Graduate Center, Fifth Avenue between 34th and 35th Streets, in mid-town Manhattan.
Talks begin at 7:00 and last about two hours. |
2/10/2008 by Al-Nofi
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| The Political Planet |
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| A Magazine on Defence Studies, Homeland Security and Strategic Affairs. |
2/9/2008 by MT Mukherjee
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| NYT Editorial on bogus "Charities" raising money by exploiting sympathy for injured veterans |
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| About a dozen "charities" claiming to be helping wounded veterans are actually profit-making scams according to the American Institute of Philanthropy, including "Salute America’s Heroes" and "Help Hospitalized Veterans"
There was a CCN report on these groups in December, online here. |
2/8/2008 by Al-Nofi
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| NYMAS lecture, February 8 -- "Daniel Harvey Hill and the Shaping of Civil War Memory" |
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| On Friday, February 8th, NYMAS will host Major Brit Erslev of the United States Military Academy at West Point, who will be speaking on "Daniel Harvey Hill and the Shaping of Civil War Memory."
NYMAS talks are free to the public. They are held at the CUNY Graduate Center, Fifth Avenue, between 34th & 35th Streets, in mid-town Manhattan.
Talks begin at 7:00 pm and last about two hours.
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2/4/2008 by Al-Nofi
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| Nice video of railgun development (not *just* the shot) |
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| The US Navy''s Electromagnetic Rail Gun that is under development at NSWC Dahlgren in Virginia. This is a prototype to demonstrate the technology of the rail gun for use on the future DDG-1000 class of Navy ships. This clip is from the show FutureWeapons on the Discovery Channel. It aired in April 2007. |
2/2/2008 by teddyruxpin
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| China ''will stop the rain'' for Olympics |
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| I wonder if they are going to turn off all the factories and tell people not to drive to stop all the pollution in the air? |
1/31/2008 by bugmaster
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| Jimmy James of "The Great Escape," dead at 92 “one of the last great links" to World War II |
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| Jimmy James, a British flier in World War II obsessed with escape plots during his five years in German captivity, most prominently the breakout portrayed in the movie “The Great Escape,” died Jan. 18 in Shrewsbury, England. Mr. James, who lived in Ludlow, England, was 92.
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1/31/2008 by Al-Nofi
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| Sic Transit . . . last German WW I veteran dies |
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| The man believed to have been Germany''s last World War I veteran has died peacefully at the age of 107. |
1/28/2008 by Al-Nofi
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| NYMAS lecture, Feb 1st, "The Gorlice-Tarnow Offensive, May 1915" |
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| On Friday, Feb 1st, NYMAS will host Prof. Richard L. DiNardo, of the Marine Corps University, who will speak on "The Gorlice-Tarnow Offensive, May 1915," the Austro-German operation that inflicted a devastating tactical and strategic defeat on Russia in the Carpathians.
NYMAS Talks are free to the public. They are held at the CUNY Graduate Center, Fifth Avenues at 34th Street, in Manhattan.
Talks begin at 7:00 pm and last about two hours. |
1/27/2008 by Al-Nofi
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| A Trip Down Memory Lane |
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| For those nostalgic for the old Soviet Union, there is a new theme park in Lithuania where visitors can go to be beaten and interrogated KGB style. No, we''re not making this up. |
1/25/2008 by Burke G Sheppard
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| Cross Anchors.com |
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| We have a new and growing web site. it is a navy/Boatswain''s Mate web site. steered towards the Pride of the oldest rate in the navy and connecting them back to there Shipmates. |
1/25/2008 by Bm2
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| Next to Last Poilu Dies |
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| French World War I veteran Louis de Cazenave, 110, died over the weekend.
Ther eis only one other French Veteran of the Great War still living.
This BBC page provides an obit plus links to articles on some of the handful of other surviving WW I veterans. |
1/22/2008 by Al-Nofi
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| CIA Says Cyberattacks Blacked Out Cities |
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| The CIA on Friday admitted that cyberattacks have caused at least one power outage affecting multiple cities outside the United States.
"In at least one case, the disruption caused a power outage affecting multiple cities. We do not know who executed these attacks or why, but all involved intrusions through the Internet." |
1/21/2008 by yojimbo
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| F-16.net |
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| F-16.net is an excellent and extensive resource for information about the F-16 fighter. |
1/20/2008 by Burke G Sheppard
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| NYMAS talk, Janaury 25th -- "The Soldier’s Experience of Battle in the Middle Ages"
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| On Friday, January 25th, NYMAS will host Cliff Rogers, of the United States Military Academy at West Point, who will speak on "The Soldier’s Experience of Battle in the Middle Ages"
NYMAS talks are free to the public. They are held at the CUNY Graduate Center, Fifth Avenue between 34th and 35th Streets, diagonally across from the Empire State Building in mid-town Manhattan.
Talks begin at 7:00 pm and usually last two hours.
Following most talks, a contingent often goes out for dinner with the speaker, which provides an opportunity for some interesting conversatoin.
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1/20/2008 by Al-Nofi
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| Save the Royal Navy |
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| Save the Royal Navy is a website dedicated to fighting the decline in the Royal Navy caused by chronic government under-funding and defence cuts. |
1/18/2008 by NavyLookout
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| NYMAS lecture, Jan 18th -- "Rarely Told Stories
from May-June 1940" |
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| On Janaury 18th, NYMAS will host its own Executive Director, Jonathan Epstein, of John Jay College, who will be speaking on "Rarely Told Stories from May-June 1940," on some of the more unusual aspects of the the "Fall of France."
nymas talks are held at the CUNY Graduate Center, Fifth Avenue betwene 34th and 35th Streets, in midtown Manhattan.
Talks begin at 7:00 pm and last about two hours. |
1/14/2008 by Al-Nofi
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