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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

February 18

1900:

Battle of Paardeburn begins, Boer war

1915:

German submarine blockade of Britain begins

1944:

HMC Ships ATHABASKAN, HAIDA & HURON join in Operation Neptune, the Naval Phase of Operation Overlord

1945:

Canadians attack German defenders in Moyland Wood. Using self-propelled flame-throwers ("Wasps"), they gain a foothold in the forest, but advance no further.

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