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...More recently, the Pentagon was obsessed for two decades by very different perceived lessons of Vietnam and the 1973 Yom Kippur war....
...collection from Vietnam,” he reveals....
...The story is slower paced than its predecessor The Englishman, which gives more time to develop Raglan’s persona and his relationships with others, especially the engaging TJ Jones, a black Vietnam veteran...
...Just over 24 hours after the last US troops had flown out of Kabul, completing America’s gruelling and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan, Joe Biden declared the start of a new chapter for American foreign...
...On a Tuesday evening in March, veterans of America’s war in Afghanistan are sitting at an outdoor patio bar in Washington, DC....
...clashes to a level that has shocked even veterans of Washington’s occasionally brutal bureaucratic warfare....
..., the denouement of the Vietnam war....
...More than 270 million tonnes of waste are recycled across the world each year, according to the World Bank — equivalent to the weight of 740 Empire State buildings....
...I cite Gardens of Stone (1987). I love this little-sung film about the Vietnam war, or more exactly about the mortal fallout of the war among America’s slain young....
...Mr Deng’s attacker in Texas was Louis Beam, a Vietnam veteran and violent member of the Texas chapter of the KKK, who also organised attacks on Vietnamese immigrants....
...At the same time, the healthcare system is dealing with the fact that many of the 6m veterans from the Vietnam era are now reaching the age when they start to require a lot of medical services....
...Sir, Edward Luce, in the wake of America’s July 4 celebrations, bemoans the withdrawal of the US as the pre-eminent military champion for the preservation of western values (“In search of a leader to mend...
...Along the way we learn real world lessons from people such as Phil Oakenshield, the Vietnam veteran who runs Montana’s Eko Compost, which processes human waste and biodiesel (how to negotiate), or Mike Bodart...
...To solve the challenges of our time and write the next chapter in the amazing story of the greatest nation man has ever known. Thank you for listening. May God bless all of you....
...A war begun in the aftermath of the 2001 terror attacks on America was by then threatening to destabilise swaths of south Asia....
...It’s a closed chapter.”...
...“We have learnt something important since the days that I served in Vietnam,” Mr Blumenthal said to veterans in Norwalk in March 2008, one of many times he appears to have claimed war service....
...Unlike Robert McNamara, defence secretary during much of the Vietnam war, who was later very open about his regrets, Rumsfeld is unrepentant....
...The most recent of these tragedies, last month, prompted Terry Gou, Foxconn boss, to rush to the facility to soothe the nerves of the 270,000 employees and manage the public relations disaster....
...Through its long gestation, Under the Dome has matured into a critique of post-9/11 America....
...is instead triggering a run of Chapter 11 filings....
...“It’s the single-most-criticised chapter in the book,” said Edwards, a professor of English at the University of Connecticut. “Yet it’s the ultimate statement of the human condition....
...The magic number, therefore, is 270. Equally important is control of Congress....
...The Vietnam veteran, who spent five years as a prisoner of war in Hanoi, is focusing his limited resources almost entirely on New Hampshire, which holds the crucial first primary election on January 8....
...Fair enough, but it did get me thinking about whether there is something in the modern waters, or spinach, of America that discourages us to think for ourselves....
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