Have you ever attended a military funeral and didn’t know the meaning of the veteran’s flag draped coffin? There is no way that we can properly thank those who served
“If they catch you at disadvantage, the mines for your life is the word; and so we fight them with our colours nailed to the mast.”
The Pirate, 1821.
For over 4,000 years humanity has used some sort of device to communicate when not within hearing distance like smoke signals, drums, flashing lanterns or lights. Many times they would correspond with vexilloids which were metal or wooden poles with engravings on top. About 2,000 years ago, pieces of colored fabric or material were added to some of these vexilloids as a decoration, so they could be more readily recognized as a symbol, or for sending a signal.
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The decision to suspend Turkey’s participation in the F-35 program in response to its purchase of the Russian S-400 missile defence system came as no surprise, but the United States and the West must continue trying to resolve political differences through dialogue, James Foggo, a retired United States Navy admiral with 39 years of service and a distinguished fellow with the Transatlantic Defence and Security Program at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), tells Kathimerini.
The last post Foggo held from 2017 to 2020 before retiring was commander of the Allied Joint Force Command in Naples and he firmly believes that the Mediterranean is at the epicentre of geopolitical developments.