Word: wwi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation's military are depleted. From a high of 1.5 million troops in 1973, they have dwindled to a meager 300,000 individuals today. In the event of another massive conventional land war in Europe (in the tradition of WWI and WWII), it is estimated that another 650,000 men would be needed. Yet it would take at least 110 days for the first individual to be drafted, and another 40 days before 100,000 soldiers could be conscripted. This state of affairs would result in dire consequences for our nation's security. Registration in itself does not impose great...
...these recent dispatches. His book deals with World War I and its accretions in the collective memory of the English-speaking world over the past half century. His "memory" is not, say, our individual memories of Vietnam, but a more permanent kind of remembrance: "the literary means by which [WWI] has been remembered, conventionalized and mythologized...
...miserable trench warfare in Northern France and Belgium--must set the parameters for the work. This is almost tautological, because Fussell is trying to prove that this current idea emerged out of the war. Fussell also tends to concentrate on how the officers, the gentlemen warriors of WWI, saw things. He does refer to "what the ordinary man has to say about it all," but this is submerged beneath his emphasis on the literary effete...
...School of Engineering. Extracurricular in the College of Arts and Sciences. Army and Navy only. Cornell 1919 Credit available in all colleges. Princeton 1919 Extracurricular. Army sponsored. Harvard 1916 Died June 1970 Yale Unknown Died June 1971 Dartmouth 1940s Died June 1973 Columbia 1946 Died after 1969 Brown WWI Died June...
...Selective Service Act at an annual cost of some 50-odd million dollars, he makes this promise absolutely meaningless. He apparently has no more respect for his promises than von Bethmann-Hollweg, as Chancellor, had for Germany's treaty obligation not to violate Belgium's neutrality during WWI, calling it "a mere scrap of paper...