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| It's that time again, ain't it? |
Dec 19, 12:18pm |
| by: eon |
Well kids, I hope you've all finished with your finals and are ready to cozy up next to a nice fire for the cold days ahead. You wouldn't guess it snows much in Texas, but we happen to be getting quite a lot of it this year. (Would have been nice, all this precipitation, back in July when we were, you know, in the throws of a drought!) So for me, at least, it's looking like a snowy holiday.
A hot apple cider sounds great, doesn't it? Spiked, of course.
May your holidays be safe, merry and bright.
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| MERCENARIES AND MILITARY VIRTUE |
Jan 15, 7:53pm |
| by: bloodandmotoroil |
In Europe and especially in England, military history is a respected intellectual discipline. Not so here. I doubt there are a dozen U.S. academic posts devoted to the study of the military arts.
The public esteem of the profession of arms is at a rather low ebb just now--at least in the United States. The Soviet Union retains the pomp and ceremony of military glory, and the officer class is highly regarded, if not by the public (who can know the true feelings of Soviet citizens?) then at least by the rulers of the Kremlin. Nor did the intellectuals always despise soldiers in the United States. Many of the very universities which delight in making mock of uniforms were endowed by land grants and were founded in the expectation that they would train officers for the state militia. It has not been all that many years since US combat troops were routinely expected to wear uniform off post, and when my uniform was sufficient for free entry into movie houses, the New York Museum of . . . [more] |
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