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Iraq is called a war, but for the U.S. it?s really a police action (our official word for the Vietnam involvement). The idea is for the troops to patrol the streets and keep people alive - the civilian population, if possible, but first and foremost themselves. Since there?s no...
From Vietnam we learned the basic rules of the guerrilla game: that the enemy doesn?t wear a uniform, that it might be a woman or child, that the battle line is anywhere - essentially, that there are no rules - which the various insurgencies have updated by killing many more of...
(3 of 4) That tactic keeps a soldier alive for another day, but it doesn?t stop agonies of self-recrimination at night, or for many nights to come. Mary Nguyen, an official of the Veterans? Administration in Dallas, quotes a poem: "Yes, the war is over. And over and...
Earlier this year, a group of Czech advertising execs stumbled upon the Lidice Memorial, on the site of a gruesome WWII war crime. In 1942, the Nazis murdered 340 innocent Lidice residents and razed [an error occurred while processing this directive] their village in retaliation for the assassination of a...
It's not often that a new bird is discovered--worldwide, it happens maybe once a year. Bugun Liocichla, a breed of babbler that scientist types will come to know as Liocichla bugunorum, last week officially became the first bird discovered in India in more than a half-century. Ramana...