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In the two decades before the United States entered World War II, the military developed war plans for all sorts of potential conflicts, identified by colors, as in War Plan Purple for Russia, Gold for France, Red for Britain, White for another US civi

How Close Did Germanys Navy Get to Threatening Americas Coastline in WWII? Just like during World War I, the Germans wanted to quickly sink as many ships as possible and doom England. However, America manpower and industrial might would once again turn the tide. Heres What You Need To Remember: The Germans wagered that if the U-boats could seriously disrupt Atlantic shipping and also sink American supply ships close to their own shores, the losses would be even more demoralizing. Dönitz comme...

George C. Marshall: Architect of Victory in World War II General George C. Marshall shaped the wartime U.S. Army and advised President Franklin D. Roosevelt throughout World War II. Heres What You Need to Know: Churchill hailed Marshall in 1945 as “the true organizer of victory” and called him “the noblest Roman of them all.” President Franklin D. Roosevelt was disturbed in the autumn of 1938 by the Munich agreement, at which the rights of Czechoslovakia were signed away, and by report...

Support the pentagons forthcoming operations in afghanistan. ana montes was among those to be chosen for the task force. >> on saturday the 22nd of september, ana was going to be briefed on the war plan for "operation enduring freedom," the effort to remove the taliban from afghanistan. if ana montes gained access to information about our war plans, she could give it to the cubans who, in turn, would be happy to trade that information or to simply share that information with our adversaries, pos...

The iranians said that it entered into their air space. well see whether or not any of those old war plans get dusted off and whether the president decides to escalate this because there has been a lot of talk about potential negotiations. but this could change that. yasmin? >> talk us through, hans, why the kind of drone is important to all of this. >> reporter: well, if it actually had offensive capabilities and i dont know what to extent the iranian drones, if it could actually take some sort...

Thing to do under the circumstances. but i also call into question whether or not the generals had not laid out all of the contingency plans for launching a strike against the iranians. without laying out in advance the lald or the calculation of how many people might be killed. ive been through this on multiple occasions. and the generals who present the war plans as such or strike plans are very specific in terms of what kind of missile will be used, where it will be launched against, the targ...

And talk show hosts. you really have to get the experts in the room to tell you whats going on and what the potentially repercussions are. i havent heard a lot of talk about advice from the chairman of the joint chiefs, who has the war plans and contingency operations and what might be done. all ive heard about so far on air is about the competing demands of the war hawks versus the peace-niks within the administration, thats not the way to do a process to develop a strategy for iran. >> robin, ...

What were saying -- >> neil: and theres no manpower yesterday. talk of over 100,000 troops. you think that is the next step? >> i dont. i think -- we have a variety of war plans on the shelf that call for various amounts of forces to be introduced in the region to handle different crises that may arrive. the fact that they came up with this number of 120,000 troops, that was just one plan pulled off the short. >> neil: and what would warrant that? an escalation? >> yeah, the iranians would have ...

Change in syria. so were getting a laboratory, were getting a glimpse, joe, of what the world looks like had the united states abdicates and as were seeing in the middle east, its anything but pretty. its not just that bad people and bad actors come to the fore, but people stop thinking about what this might mean for american interest. we are essentially limiting our influence in a part of the world that still matters, whether its energy or potential for terrorists or nuclear proliferation. a fe...

Certain that we sure israel up that we also provide provisions in this legislation for jordan, who is a key regional allie vitally important as we look at the middle east and what we have seen from the democrats is just obstruction. they have voted against this twice. were going to go with this again on monday, and see if we can again have another tool in the tool box to deal with bad actors. this legislation also has provisions that would hold syria s brutal regime accountable for torture and m...