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I am quite confident that in the foreseeable future armed conflict will not take the form of huge land armies facing each other across extended battle lines, as they did in World War I and World War II or, for that matter, as they would have if NATO had faced the Warsaw Pact on the field of battle.

- General H. Norman Schwartzkopf

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Today in Military History

April 3



1917:

Major F.W. Lumsden , DSO, Royal Marine Artillery awarded the Victoria Cross, France


1943:

Corporal T. P. Hunter, 43 Commando Royal Marines awarded the Victoria Cross, Italy


1951:

KAPYONG-CHON, effective dates for battle honour begin (to 16 Apr 51)




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