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Before they settled in to form a long defensive cordon, the French units had their hour in the sun of gulf victories. Together with some U.S. paratroop and artillery units, a French regiment with dune-dodging Gazelle helicopter gunships carrying HOT air-to-ground missiles led an attack on a fortified position, code-named Rochambeau, 30 miles inside Iraq. Defenders resisted for some time, but hundreds of them raised white flags as soon as they spied the approach of French tanks. As in a Foreign Legion adventure film of old, the force ended up neutralizing a division of some...
...absolutely convinced you can't," he says. "If there's a question about the moral purpose here, I really urge people to read this report. It's going to have a devastating effect. And there are comparisons between this and what happened when ((Hitler's)) Death's Head Regiment went into Poland. I'm about 200 pages into a 950-page book. It's a history of World War II. And the reason I made reference to the Death's Head Regiment is that it was very clearly spelled out what happened. They came in after the original troops...
...antitank planes belching more than 4,000 cannon rounds a minute would blast away from closer range. The battleships Wisconsin and Missouri might chip in with Tomahawk missiles launched from far out in the gulf. "When you concentrate that kind of firepower, you can kill an entire regiment in less than five minutes," says one American general...
...fact, Hanoi is no longer confident that it can trust its security forces. Not long ago, the Hanoi leaders created a special regiment from people very loyal to them and sent it down to Saigon. That is because they realized that if the people in the south rose up, the regular security forces and even the military there might not be on the government's side, just like in Romania...
...freemen and runaway slaves of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry regiment were not given anything in 1863: certainly not victory. The blacks of the 54th were actual men who died actual deaths in a redemptive violence that they sought. The lesson that Glory teaches -- and it is finding an audience -- is this: it was not the Great White Paternalist alone who freed the slaves and made them American citizens. It was also blacks who freed themselves. These were the blacks who enlisted, trained, suffered, endured condescension and insult, disciplined themselves, fought for the right to fight and the opportunity...