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World War I Centenary To Be Marked by Recreation of Christmas Day Soccer Match
The historic Christmas Day soccer match between British and German troops in 1914 is set to be recreated next year for the centenary of World War I.
Army Lessons Observed…But Not Learned
Genghis Khan allegedly advised his sons that “occupations turn soldiers into jailers.” Whether or not the great Mongol general said these words is hard to...
Plumbing the Quantico Killings
As the military community mourns the tragic loss of three Marines, that same community must be stunned by the violence that occurred at one of its most revered...
A Sea of Troubles: Asia Today Compared to Europe Before World War I
In separate opinion pieces this week, two former Asian foreign ministers likened Asia now to pre-World War I Europe, then strung together by a tangle of imperial...
A Military-Justice Immelman?
In flying, an Immelman is a kind of looping turn, popular during World War I, that sends an aircraft in the opposite direction. Did the U.S. Air Force just pull...
France Built a Decoy Paris to Fool German Bombers During World War I
How do you save Paris from German bombers? By building a life-sized decoy city, of course.
Why Did World War I Just End?
World War I ended over the weekend. Germany made its final reparations-related payment for the Great War on Oct. 3, nearly 92 years after the country's defeat by...
Downton Abbey Returns to America: Writer Julian Fellowes Tells All About the Crawley Family (and World War I)
During the first season of Downton Abbey, the aristocratic Crawley family and their busybody servants endured a succession crisis and the death of a Turkish...
Affording the “Pacific Pivot”
Former governor Mitt Romney’s drumbeat for $2 trillion in additional defense spending, together with President Obama’s Pacific pivot – the reallocation of...
Combat: When Do You Go Back?
The military psychiatrist serves both the service member and the military. The classic decision for a military psychiatrist in the theater of war is how to...
