General William Westmoreland was the commander of the American military operations during the Vietnam War in 1964. Today, the Vietnam War could be compared to the war in Iraq although entirely different in scenario both wars could not have lasted this long causing numerous casualties if only people in Congress, Senate and political leaders learned how to listen to the ... Read More »
The face of warfare may have changed but the face of war itself didn’t change. It is still the same kind of war servicemen have fought from the early wars until the present day. Equipments and new technologies used may have added to the changes but the number of men needed in every war to win it has not changed. ... Read More »
There is very little information that you can read about the man who commanded Operation Gothic Serpent. They are as rare as the pictures you can find about the man on the World Wide Web. Major General William F. Garrison is the youngest U.S. Army officer ever to hold the ranks of colonel, brigadier general and major general. As the ... Read More »
Gen Stanley McChrystal was commander of US troops in Afghanistan from June 2009 to June 2010 and was the first officer to be appointed to the post under the Obama administration. He was dismissed on 23 June 2010 after he criticized leading administrative officials in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine. General McChrystal was specifically chosen by Defense Secretary Robert ... Read More »
General Peter Pace is the very first Marine to serve as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff succeeding General Richard Myers on September 30, 2005. The 16th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff came under fire in 2007 when he called homosexuality as immoral during his defense of the military’s ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy. This led to ... Read More »
Richard Bowman Myers was born on March 1, 1942 and is a retired four – star general of the United States Air Force. He was the 15th Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff and served as the principal military advisor to the President, Secretary of Defense and the National Security Council especially during the early stages of the War ... Read More »
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