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...fanatically anti-Western (and antiCommunist) Moslem Brotherhood, and his agents supplied black market weapons bought with Saudi money. Often the young King drove out for secret, late-night meetings with chosen leaders on lonely roads outside Amman. Hussein picked Zerka for his showdown because a crack Bedouin regiment was stationed there and the Moslem Brotherhood was strong in the town...
...Government employee came up to the Capitol and issued an ultimatum to the House and Senate." Against that ultimatum, the "United States Congress, the greatest legislative body in the world, that stood up to Hitler, that stood up to Mussolini, that stood up to Stalin, stampeded like a regiment dissolving at Waterloo-before a Postmaster General...
...demonstrations, a Syrian armored regiment crossed into Jordan. Fighting broke out among Jordanian army units at Zerka, a post northeast of Amman; three pro-Abu Nuwar officers were reported killed, ten wounded, ten captured. At this point, King Hussein moved to take over the government himself. He summoned his onetime friend, Abu Nuwar, to the palace. Then, as tanks and armored cars of the former Arab Legion rattled through the streets and ringed the palace, the young general was arrested and packed off by car for Syrian exile. Nabulsi and other leading leftist politicians were placed under house arrest...
...blasted eleven weeks' training as "absolutely inadequate." In his own division, said Green, he accepts enlistments only if the enlistees agree to sign up for six months' training-and "we are gaining strength; we are gaining proficiency." One reason for his insistence on adequate training: as a regimental commander on Okinawa in 1945, he had taken on replacements with only six to eight weeks' training. "I lost 2,200 men in my regiment alone . . . Those men died because they were not trained. It was murder...
...midnight in 1862 General Charles C. Gilbert, a Regular Army man, reined in his horse and chewed out a captain of the loth Indiana volunteers who were sprawled along a Kentucky road taking a breather. Why, demanded Gilbert, didn't the captain have the regiment stand at attention as the corps commander rode by? Angrily, the colonel of the regiment replied that his men had been marching night and day for a week in an attempt to beat Bragg's Confederates to Louisville, and he "would not hold a dress parade at midnight for any damned fool living...