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From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror, the American military has consistently beaten the odds. It's not luck. America's armed services are under attack. From college campuses to the floor of the Senate, the Iraq war is portrayed as a quagmire, the Army is described as... read more
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Characters/People edit
- George Patton: Add a description of this character.
- Andrew Jackson
- Custer
- Reagan
- Halsey
- Saddam
- Higgins
- Hughes
- Stuart
- Gorbachev
- Robert E. Lee
- Bush
- Reno
- Billy Mitchell
- Grant
- Pakenham
- Dwight Eisenhower
- Jean Lafitte
- Spencer
- Sheehan
- Kurita
- Ozawa
- Perkins
- Tommy Franks
- Moore
- Whitney
- Osama Bin Laden
- Smith
- Nishimura
- Stanton
- Hitler
- Roosevelt
- Abrams
- Johnson
- Haupt
- Fallujah
- Karl Zinsmeister
- Schwarzkopf
- Blount
- Hoover
- Winfield Scott
- Wilder
- Omar Bradley
- Terry
Setting & Locations edit
- United States
- Iraq
- North Vietnam
- America
- Baghdad
- Washington
- Europe
- Afghanistan
- Japan
- West Point
- Germany
- New England
- France
- Hollywood
- Mogadishu
- New York
- Gettysburg
- China
- Sioux
- New Orleans
- Wake Island
- Chicago
- Tennessee
- Pacific
- Korea
- Qaeda
- Soviet Union
- Normandy
- Gitmo
- Manila
- Kursk
- Louisiana
- Virginia
- Basra
- Republic
- Najaf
- Balanga
- Britain
- Sicily
- Italy
- Israel
- Atlantic
- U.s. Army
- Mexico
- Pennsylvania
- Okinawa
- Islam
- Annapolis
First Sentence edit
On paper, the 78,100 American and Filipino soldiers who squared off against the 200,000 Japanese troops on Bataan in late March, 1942, seemed a solid, if not formidable, force.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Larry Schweikart (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 355.033573
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