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...personnel whose near future includes a trip to the wrong corner of the world. Around here, we call it The Shot, and because my New York reserve unit is bound for South Korea in September, it's coming in March to an arm near me. And suddenly, it's soldier time...
McCain approached the irregular soldier. "Sir," he said, "with that enthusiasm and that attire, if they don't listen to you, sir, then they're not worth talking to." The questions from the audience matched its diversity, and the contradictions of McCain were on full view. "That's out-and-out racism," he said in response to a question about Bob Jones University. "I would tell them, 'Get out of the 16th century and into the 20th century.'" That was the moderate, tolerant, swinging John McCain talking. But then on a question about public funding for artists like photographer Robert...
Members of the Army are already undergoing a 90-day education program aimed at rooting out homophobic harassment. Each of the armed services is slated to draw up and conduct similar training. Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen deemed the sensitivity sessions necessary last July, when a soldier clubbed Private Barry Winchell to death in Fort Campbell, Ky., after extensively baiting Winchell about his homosexuality. It was not until Feb. 1, however, that Cohen explicitly instructed everyone in the armed services to undergo the training. Cohen has also requested a detailed report to gauge animus against gays in the military...
Throughout World War II both the Nazi and Soviet armies achieved significant unit cohesion. Admittedly, there was nothing fuzzy or friendly about the means employed. Stalin had gunners open fire on deserters. The SS brutalized inhabitants of areas through which the Wehrmacht passed, leaving no doubt in the German soldiers' mind that local capture was not a viable option. German troops were also informed that desertion would result in retribution against their families. The moral repugnance of such techniques notwithstanding, they almost certainly contributed to tangible differences in military performance per capita. For every enemy soldier the American trooper killed...
...appreciate how crazy loyalty can get, recall Shoichi Yokoi, the World War II Japanese soldier who hid in the jungles of Guam for 27 years rather than surrender to U.S. forces. He had declared fidelity to Emperor Hirohito and had evidently meant...