Navy.ca's Fallen Comrades

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

As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war.

- Sir Basil H. Liddel-Hart (Strategy, 1954; discussing the French army between the World Wars)

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Military Word Of The Day

SRAAM

short-range anti-air missile

Today in Military History

November 12

1915:

Lord Derby warns British unmarried men of compulsory service if they fail to enlist voluntarily by 30 Nov 15

1921:

The Limitation of Armaments Conference begins at Washington

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