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The Japanese lost nearly 4,700 hundred men, including Korean slave laborers, and just 17 of the islands' defenders were captured. Tarawa, an atoll in the Gilbert Islands chain in the middle of the Pacific near the equator, was viewed as a necessary stepping stone in the war against the Japanese, a critical launch point into the Marshall islands and into Japan's recently accrued defensive perimeter. As critical as the American brass thought of it, the Japanese military knew it to be even more significant. A loss here would punch a massive hole into the defensive line they had established acros...

Fork Union Military Academy Celebrates One-Year Anniversary of Collaborative Relationship with the Academia Militarizada Ignacio Zaragoz in Puebla, Mexico Share Article Fork Union Military Academy today celebrates the one-year anniversary of their Memorandum of Friendship with the Academia Militarizada Ignacio Zaragoza (Ignacio Zaragoza Military Academy) of Puebla, Mexico. The goal of both schools is to establish a formal cadet exchange program, and although plans for that program had to be postponed last spring, the schools are planning virtual events to participate in jointly during the 202...

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Indian armed forces must prepare personnel to shoulder responsibilities at all levels of new unified commands This calls for a major overhaul of our system of professional military education as well as doctrines. Updated: December 16, 2020 9:22:53 am It is disheartening to note Smith’s comment about the ‘utter failure of DSSC to impart a true sense of jointness in its graduates’. (Illustration by C R Sasikumar) The year 2020 will, no doubt, earn the title of annus horribilis on account of the Chinese-origin COVID-19. But for India, it brought a “t...

Frank Sinatra was arguably the most famous Italian-American Catholic of the 20th century. The skinny kid from Hoboken, N.J. — who was born 105 years ago, Dec. 12, 1915 — grew up to become synonymous with the so-called Great American Songbook. That songbook, however, was largely written by Jewish-Americans, including immigrants and children of immigrants. And while the songwriters for the most part expressly tried to leave behind the accents and inflections of the Yiddish-speaking world from whence they came, the songs nonetheless often betrayed the influence of Jewish Eastern Europe in ou...