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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old



If disconnectedness is the real enemy, then the combatants we target in this war are those who promote it, enforce it and terrorize those who seek to overcome it by reaching out to the larger world.

Our strategic goals, therefore, are to extend connectivity in every way possible, but only in a manner which promotes justice as much as order.

- Thomas P.M. Barnett, "The Pentagon's New Map

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Military Word Of The Day
FST
:
field surgical team


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Today in Military History

August 18



1917:

VC won by A/Major Okill Massey Learmouth MC, 2nd Battalion, CEF, Hill 70, France (posthumous)


1917:

VC won by Sgt Frederick Hobson, 20th Battalion, CEF, Hill 70, France (posthumous)


1944:

VC won by Major David Vivian Currie, 29th Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment (The South Alberta Regiment), St. Lambert-sur-Dives, France




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