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...that runs along the southern border of the town; the Pir Mohammed School sits on the banks of both that canal and one other, which runs along the eastern edge of the hornet's nest. "It's a crucial strategic position," Ellis says. "My plan was to build a strongpoint next to the school that would later be converted into an Afghan police station. It was necessary to protect the teachers and students, but it was also necessary to protect the town. That intersection was the Taliban's way in, and as soon as the enemy found out that...
...Ellis was agog. He had briefed the commanding general of RC-South, Nick Carter, on the project, and he was in favor. But General Carter was on leave - and his staff didn't want to take the risk. Regulations were regulations. "I mean, if we don't have a strongpoint there, you endanger the kids. Do you think the Taliban are just going to let us ... open the [freakin'] school...
...commodore Sarah Krause sees the team's depth as its strongpoint as well...
...destiny brought Erwin Rommel face to face with the man who would prove to be his nemesis: Bernard Montgomery. By July 1942 the Germans had pushed the British out of Libya. All that stood between the Nazis and Alexandria was the strongpoint at the arid village of El Alamein, 70 miles to the west. A worried Churchill sent Montgomery, an eccentric, bullheaded disciplinarian, to head the Eighth Army. In spite of frantic pleas from London, Monty -- as the Ulsterman asked his soldiers to refer to him -- took his time, rebuilding troop morale and stocking up on ammunition. Churchill wanted...
...invasion plan is the result of a compromise within Prime Minister Thatcher's five-member war cabinet. According to top-level British sources, Thatcher herself favors a frontal assault on Port Stanley, currently the Argentine strongpoint. She has also considered a British air strike against Argentina's mainland airbases. But the more cautious members of her inner circle, notably Foreign Secretary Pym and Deputy Prime Minister William Whitelaw, are anxious to keep the avenues for a diplomatic solution open to the very end. They also fear heavy British casualties. Accordingly, they made a bargain with Thatcher, trading their...