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  Major-General Thomas Oppong-Peprah, Chief of Army Staff (COAS), on Friday, ended his nationwide tour of Units under his command with a visit to the Volta Region. It was a day’s operational visit to the 66th Artillery Regiment during which he took the opportunity to learn at first hand their administrative and logistical constraints. The COAS who was in the company of Brigadier General M. A. Amoah, General Officer Commanding, Southern Command, visited the Operation Motherland JFT Headquarters after a briefing by the Commanding Officer of the Regiment, Lt. Col. Edward Sarpong Appiah. Th...

Holding the Line at Smolensk: The Red Army's Bloody Attempt To Stop the Nazi Juggernaut In Smolensk during the summer of 1941, the Soviet Red Army attempted to slow Hitler's Operation Barbarossa. Here's What You Need to Know: The Red Army suffered over 600,000 casualties, including almost 400,000 men taken prisoner. After crushing the first-line Soviet armies in brutal three-week cauldron battles at the border, the steamroller of German Army Group Center continued deeper into Soviet territory during the opening days of Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union, which began on Ju...