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Guam
24-11-29 Fortress Guam: US military creating Pacific bastion - Binkov > .Australia
Maritime Strategy - Australia ..UK Bases
British Overseas Territories ..US Geostrategic Projection
Tuesday, July 14, 2020
Overseas Military Bases
24-10-22 [US Ups Presence in Philippines & Taiwan: Xina's Nightmare] | ASEAN > .
Monday, July 13, 2020
Parliament at War
Winston Churchill's War - BBC doc > .
Bombing of Houses of Parliament - worst damage 41-5-10/11 -> Church House > .
Acts 1920-1939
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Acts_of_the_Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom,_1920%E2%80%931939 .
Acts 1940-1959
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Acts_of_the_Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom,_1940%E2%80%931959 .
Bombing of Houses of Parliament - worst damage 41-5-10/11 -> Church House > .
Acts 1920-1939
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Acts_of_the_Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom,_1920%E2%80%931939 .
Acts 1940-1959
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Acts_of_the_Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom,_1940%E2%80%931959 .
Parliament at War ..
Pentagon
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24-8-12 HR McMaster on [DUH] Foreign Policy & Technology Warfare | Hoover > .
23-8-29 How Pentagon Became World’s Most Secure Building - Wend > .
22-2-23 New Space Race is More Insane than Ever - RealLifeLore > .
The Pentagon is the headquarters building of the United States Department of Defense. As a symbol of the U.S. military, the phrase The Pentagon is also often used as a metonym or synecdoche for the Department of Defense and its leadership.
Located in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., the building was designed by American architect George Bergstrom and built by contractor John McShain. Ground was broken on 11 September 1941, and the building was dedicated on 15 January 1943. General Brehon Somervell provided the major motivating power behind the project; Colonel Leslie Groves was responsible for overseeing the project for the U.S. Army.
Located in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., the building was designed by American architect George Bergstrom and built by contractor John McShain. Ground was broken on 11 September 1941, and the building was dedicated on 15 January 1943. General Brehon Somervell provided the major motivating power behind the project; Colonel Leslie Groves was responsible for overseeing the project for the U.S. Army.
Before the Pentagon was built, the United States Department of War was headquartered in the Munitions Building, a temporary structure erected during World War I along Constitution Avenue on the National Mall. The War Department, which was a civilian agency created to administer the U.S. Army, was spread out in additional temporary buildings on the National Mall, as well as dozens of other buildings in Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia. In the late 1930s, a new War Department Building was constructed at 21st and C Streets in Foggy Bottom but, upon completion, the new building did not solve the department's space problem and ended up being used by the Department of State. When World War II broke out in Europe, the War Department rapidly expanded in anticipation that the United States would be drawn into the conflict. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson found the situation unacceptable, with the Munitions Building overcrowded and the department spread out.
The Pentagon is the world's largest office building, with about 6,500,000 square feet (150 acres; 0.60 km2) of floor space, of which 3,700,000 sq ft (85 acres; 0.34 km2) are used as offices. Some 23,000 military and civilian employees, and another 3,000 non-defense support personnel, work in the Pentagon. It has five sides, five floors above ground, two basement levels, and five ring corridors per floor with a total of 17.5 miles (28.2 km) of corridors. The central five-acre (2.0 ha) pentagonal plaza is nicknamed "ground zero" on the presumption that it would be a prime target in a nuclear war.
On 11 September 2001, American Airlines Flight 77 was hijacked and flown into the western side of the building, killing 189 people. Of those killed, 64 were on the hijacked airplane, and 125 were in the Pentagon. It was the first significant foreign attack on Washington's governmental facilities since the city was burned by the British during the War of 1812.
The Pentagon is the world's largest office building, with about 6,500,000 square feet (150 acres; 0.60 km2) of floor space, of which 3,700,000 sq ft (85 acres; 0.34 km2) are used as offices. Some 23,000 military and civilian employees, and another 3,000 non-defense support personnel, work in the Pentagon. It has five sides, five floors above ground, two basement levels, and five ring corridors per floor with a total of 17.5 miles (28.2 km) of corridors. The central five-acre (2.0 ha) pentagonal plaza is nicknamed "ground zero" on the presumption that it would be a prime target in a nuclear war.
On 11 September 2001, American Airlines Flight 77 was hijacked and flown into the western side of the building, killing 189 people. Of those killed, 64 were on the hijacked airplane, and 125 were in the Pentagon. It was the first significant foreign attack on Washington's governmental facilities since the city was burned by the British during the War of 1812.
PLA Corruption
22-1-22 Is Chinese military corruption the PLA’s self-destructive weapon? - Lei > .
23-1-22 Politics Can Destroy Armies: Factionalism & R-U War - Perun > .
22-7-28 Have Mao and Deng predicted XXP's downfall? Untold history of China - Lei > .
ROC
Autocratic lies, cultural myths, endemic corruption
Saturday, July 11, 2020
Recruitment Blues
23-8-9 Why The US Military Is Running Out Of Soldiers - Versed > .
24-11-12 Air Force breaking down recruiting barriers - Sandboxx > .
24-1-14 Revitalizing Trust in the Military | Hoover, RAI > .
23-9-4 The Recruiting Crisis: US Military Adapts to Zoomers || Peter Zeihan > .
23-8-20 NATO's Rearmament & Spending - NATO's R-U Response - Perun > .
23-5-16 US Army 'fat camp' helping would-be recruits to lose weight - Forces > .
22-8-26 Why US Military Faces Growing Recruiting Crisis - CNBC > .
22-8-26 Why US Military Faces Growing Recruiting Crisis - CNBC > .
22-8-15 4 Reasons Nobody is Joining the Military - T&P > .24-3-6 EU Defense Union: How Far Should We Integrate? - Simple > . skip > .24-2-20 Why Europe is Reinstating Conscription - TLDR > .23-12-23 Future of EU Defense: NATO or the EU? (ft. UEF) - Simple > .
1939-4-27 Conscription Introduced in Britain - 27 April 1939 ..
Civilian Support Branches
> EuM - European Defense >> EU Army?
Reservists
24-9-30 Reservist lethality: British Army's fighting power by 2027 - Forces > .UK's Recruitment Problems
Ukraine
23-2-9 Who could be conscripted to fight in Ukraine? | BBC > .Xina's PLA Recruitment
24-2-9 4 Reasons for PLA's Recruitment Problems - T&P > .
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igitur quī dēsīderat pācem praeparet bellum therefore, he who desires peace, let him prepare for war sī vīs pācem, parā bellum if you wan...
