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...trying to identify their enemy and hunt him down, hoping to achieve the security needed to hold elections in the Sunni triangle. Insurgents, however, their numbers estimated in the hundreds, are intimidating locals, kidnapping and killing local officials, and staging frequent hit-and-run attacks. Regiment commander Lt. Col. Randall P. Newman believes foreign fighters are coming back and forth from Fallujah, mixing with ex-Baathists and local criminals in a combined effort to keep the city unstable. "It's almost like a chess match," says Golf Company executive officer, Lt. Dennis Doyle - one the U.S. and its Iraqi allies...
...fact that least some are carrying on Harvard’s tradition of military service that goes back to President John F. Kennedy ’40, President Theodore Roosevelt, Class 0f 1880 and his son, the World War One aviator Quentin Roosevelt ’41, and Col. Robert Gould Shaw, Class...
...engaging in malicious torture and sexual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners. Yet, in addressing the atrocities, President Bush said curtly: “I think they’ll be taken care of.” His sentiment was similar to that voiced by New York Post editor-in-chief Col Allan, who refused to publish pictures of the abused Iraqi prisoners. Allan reasoned: “If there’s a handful of U.S. soldiers who’ve mistreated prisoners, I don’t think that should be allowed to reflect poorly...
...Fallujah involves the Marines withdrawing from their siege lines around the insurgent-held town and allowing one of Saddam Hussein's top former generals to lead a newly constituted Iraqi military unit to go in and restore calm. The new initiative, announced Thursday by local Marine commander Lt. Col. Brennan Byrne, follows days of negotiation with former Iraqi generals and local politicians. It comes three weeks after the Marines first went in to punish those responsible for killing and mutilating four U.S. private security men, and 10 days after the first attempt at a cease-fire brokered by local leaders...
History, legend and myth all coincide in The Alamo, which depicts two of the most famous battles of the Mexican-American war: the Siege of the Alamo in 1836 and the succeeding Battle of San Jacinto. At the Alamo, under their leaders Col. William Barrett (Patrick Wilson), Davy Crockett (Billy Bob Thornton) and James Bowie (Jason Patric), almost 200 men from all different races and backgrounds fought bravely to the death against the Mexican army, led by General Santa Anna (Emilio Echevarria). While there were no survivors, their fight for Texas inspired General Sam Houston (Dennis Quaid) to lead...