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Warfare history with biographies, commentaries, and photographs. Seeking writers interested in history. Email [email protected]

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September 1944.

Montgomery's plan to end the war by Christmas: drop three airborne divisions across Holland, seize the Rhine bridges, and drive into Germany. The SS Panzer divisions at Arnhem were not part of the plan. #history #war #libraryofwar

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Merrill's Marauders: The Jungle Campaign That Consumed an Elite American Unit - Read more stories at https://t.co/NkvC8BdwIl #libraryofwar #militaryhistory

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The Tercio: How Spain's Pike-and-Shot Formation Dominated European Battlefields for 150 Years

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Red Cross #DonutDollies Suzanne Shoemaker and Michelle Manganski at LZ San Juan Hill, February 1971. Following her assignment in #Vietnam Suzanne Shoemaker left the Red Cross and joined the USAF retiring as a Colonel. #history #libraryofwar

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Sailors conduct military funeral honors for Navy Seaman 1st Class Walter Stein at Arlington National Cemetery, Va., March 24, 2022. Stein was killed during the attack on Pearl Harbor while serving aboard the USS Oklahoma. The Defense #POW #MIA Accounting Agency. #USNavy

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An Air Force #B2 Spirit prepares to conduct aerial refueling operations with a KC-135 Stratotanker during a training mission in the Indo-Pacific region, on March 23, 2022. #usaf #libraryofwar Photo By Air Force Tech. Sgt. Hailey Haux

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Air Force Capt. Stephanie Stewart teaches a child how to use a yoke on an #HC130J #aircraft during the Youth Open House at Moody Air Force Base, Ga., March 12, 2022. #usaf #libraryofwar Photo By: Air Force Airman 1st Class Rachel Perkinson

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The Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, Studies and Observations Group was activated, on Jan. 24, 1964, to function as a joint special operations task force in #Vietnam The 5th Special Forces Group was the largest source of volunteers for the unit. #5thgrp #specialforces

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Paratroopers assigned to the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, #82nd Airborne Division conduct sling load training in #Zamosc #Poland on March 18, 2022.
Photo By: Marine Corp Sgt. James Bourgeois #usarmy #libraryofwar

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#Canadian sniper #canada #ukraine #libraryofwar

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Russian T-72B3 tanks driving down Troitskaya street in Mariupol.
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#UPDATE US President Joe Biden met Ukraine's foreign and defence ministers Saturday in an emphatic show of support, as Russia signalled it may scale down its war aims after failing to break Kyiv's resistance in a month of fighting and attacks on civilians https://t.co/bpgXBZuMoR

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UA Georgian National Legion - The unit has been actively engaged in Ukraine since 2014 and was originally made up of mostly #Georgian but also a minority of #American and #British volunteers, including women who served in the #GDF and various #specialforces

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Soldiers from Bravo Company, 2nd/1st Battalion Royal #NewZealand Infantry Regiment switched Burnham Military Camp for the Heaphy Track, as part of Exercise Bravo Rua. #libraryofwar unknown photographer

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#ukraine Unknown photographer #libraryofwar

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#Austrian #Jagdkommando checking email in the field. #libraryofwar

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Putin's decision to use the Kinzhal is more escalatory than Trump's use of the MOAB, because the Kinzhal is nuclear capable.

Due to its extreme range, it is a "carrier killer" – capable of wiping out an entire U.S. Carrier Strike Group.

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There is no plausible reason that the Kinzhal would need to be deployed against Ukraine, given that its air defenses have already been suppressed.

It is Russia's single most advanced conventional weapon – 13 times as fast as a tomahawk, with 3x the payload.

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🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: Russia has fired hypersonic Kinzhal ("dagger") missiles in Ukraine.

Officially, the weapons were used to destroy a munitions depot in Ivano-Frankivsk.

In reality, this is a MAJOR deterrent signal to NATO. 🧵

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A Marine provides security as helicopters land at the DAO Compound Vietnam #vietnam #vietnamwar #history #libraryofwar