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the combat career of a new German pilot now lasted, on average, less than a month.

Global war is a clash of systems, not just battalions biffing one another in some godforsaken forest.

In battle, topography is fate.

...the first Allied troops cantered eastward in the rollicking high spirits obligatory at the beginning of all military debacles.

I think I may try and write something about my pretty extraordinary experience with the 101st in Iraq.

fractious, four-legged children of Satan,

In one typical battalion, of forty-one officers who had landed on Sicily in July, only nine remained, and six of them had been wounded, according

He looked as though he had just had a steam bath, a massage, a good breakfast and a letter from home," wrote one journalist.

If I've vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions.

casern for four years, using the municipal

I was a foreign correspondent in Berlin in the mid-'90s.

They're not shooting at us, they're not shooting at us," one infantry commander insisted, even as French artillery plastered his battalion.