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However, in recent weeks, it has compromised its original peacemaking intentions. Israel claims that Egypt has violated their disengagement agreement. Egypt has upped the ante on the Suez Canal, requiring Isreal to make yet another withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula before Egypt will open the canal--a clear sign of bad faith...
Later, during the Allied breakout from the Cherbourg peninsula, came a Hitlerian command reflex that the Ultra team had learned to expect. Every time things went wrong, Winterbotham notes, "Hitler invariably took remote control, which was a bonus, since most of his signals went on the air." This time Hitler's frantic radio orders gave Eisenhower "the master plan straight from the Fuehrer." With the Nazis trapped at Falaise, Eisenhower sent General Patton plunging east toward Germany. "Without Ultra," Winterbotham argues, "we might have had to meet the Russians on the Rhine instead of the Elbe, and they would...
...convinced that these teeth belonged to a full-fledged Homo, who probably used them to eat meat, which he obtained by "using tools, possibly bones, to kill animals." Furthermore, since there is recent geological evidence that Ethiopia's Awash Valley may once have been part of the Arabian Peninsula. Johanson ventures an even more imaginative theory: the cradle of man may be Arabia, not Africa...
...swaggering 29-year-old lieutenant colonel, he swept his 37th Tank Battalion through Normandy, sealing off the peninsula in the eleven days after Dday. In his dramatic breakthrough to relieve Bastogne and his near legendary dash across the Rhine, "Abe" Abrams terrified the enemy as a daring tactician who relied on swift movement and overpowering violence. He believed in the shock value of mass attack combined with an awesome firepower that approached overkill. A captured German document said, somewhat hysterically, that Abrams' forces were totally made up of men who had been born out of wedlock or killed their...
Continued American military presence in South Korea will allow the United States to play a pivotal role in East Asia, Hahm said. Hahm discussed various scenarios by which the Korean peninsula could play an important role in the event of a Sino-Soviet...