Category: Military

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Religious Cold War Heats up in Latin America

SANTIAGO, Chile — When 43 visiting bishops and priests were arrested in Ecuador last month, the Catholic Church was stunned. Though persecution of priests and nuns is becoming commonplace in Latin American countries, the arrest and expulsion of such high-ranking Churchmen, including four U.S. bishops,

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West Point and Honor: What We Haven’t Told You

June 21, 1976   New Orleans, La. – I have come to this sweat-stained city on the Gulf Coast to interview a classmate, and to think about the honor scandal which over the past two months has cracked the granite upon which rests the United

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The Class of 1969: An Introduction

May 28, 1976   I have a fellowship from the Alicia Patterson Foundation to study my class at West Point, the class of 1969. In a way, this grant is the ultimate nostalgia trip carried to its logical conclusion. I’ll bet you’d like to travel

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Angola’s Dogs of War

The word “mercenaries” elicits images of thuggish killers, money-hungry, daring soldiers of no principle who truly fit the “Have Gun, Will Travel” slogan. The legend of these soldiers of fortune — widely publicized for their activities in the Congo, Biafra, Yemen, Algeria and other hot

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Propoganda: The Other Rhodesian War

“Rhodesia faces its final hour.” “The Armageddon is on.” “The blindness of Rhodesia.” With those alarming words, the world press has headlined its view that white domination in the rebellious southern African colony is just about over. Yet the government of Prime Minister Ian Smith