Word: colonel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Randall Wallace (Braveheart), they took a cue from the Titanic playbook and composed a central fictional love story. Two strapping pilots (Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett), friends since boyhood, fall for a hot nurse (Kate Beckinsale). Ultimate sacrifices ensue. Authentic figures such as Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Jon Voight), Lieut. Colonel James H. Doolittle (Alec Baldwin) and heroic black mess attendant Doris "Dorie" Miller (Cuba Gooding Jr.) appear in supporting roles, and the backdrop reaches for historical accuracy--at least until it gets in the way of the main story...
...period of three days. She ordered the rounding up of her most bitter political foes, including Senator Juan Ponce Enrile, an Estrada loyalist and one of the heroes who toppled the Marcos regime, and former Washington ambassador Ernesto Maceda. Senator Gregorio Honasan, an Enrile ally and former army colonel involved in seven botched coup attempts in the late 1980s, refused to surrender along with nine others...
...Just before her 30th birthday, the war broke out. Eager for adventure, Travers signed up as a volunteer for Charles de Gaulle's Resistance army and shipped off to Africa and the Middle East where she joined up with the Legion and became the driver for Colonel Marie-Pierre Koenig. On a trip from Damascus to Beirut, Koenig and Travers became lovers then lived together in Beirut, where they were stationed for several months. "Slowly, in the idyllic setting I would remember fondly all of my life," she writes, "Pierre touched my soul in a way no other...
...million mission to help organize and improve the Colombian military. That has made some professional U.S. soldiers itchy. "The employment of private corporations to provide military assistance, specifically the training of other nations' armies to fight wars, should not be an instrument of U.S. foreign policy," an Army colonel wrote in 1998. "The military profession should remain a monopoly of the state...
...formula: kill as many of the enemy as possible in hopes of breaking their morale. We deployed our vast arsenal, and butchered at least a million of them. We gauged progress by piles of twisted corpses--the grim "body count." Yet the Vietnamese continued to fight. After the war, Colonel Harry G. Summers Jr. crowed to a communist officer, "We won every battle." Replied his analog: "That may be true, but it's irrelevant...