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The Katyn Massacre: The Pot Calling the Kettle Black
In 1939, Nazi Germany and its then-ally the Soviet Union divided conquered Poland between them per the terms of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Some senior members of the Polish government and military...
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The 2014 Defense Budget Request: Another Whack at Personnel Costs
On April 10, when the Department of Defense (DoD) finally released its 2014 Defense budget request, there was one thing everyone could agree on: The numbers in it didn’t mean much. While the base...
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Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds and Hedging Strategies
The Global Trends 2030 report builds on the precedent set by earlier editions of Global Trends in identifying four possible future models of the world out to 2030 – but takes this alternative world...
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Cybersecurity and Sequestration
When sequestration hit on March 1, it couldn’t have happened at a worse time for federal employees charged with protecting the nation’s public and private networks – in fact, events in the weeks...
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Maj. Robert Furman: A Spook in the Pentagon
Sometime in 1943, not long after construction of the Pentagon had been completed and the great building first opened its doors for business, reports of a ghost began circulating among the military and...
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When Telford Taylor and U.S. Army G-2 Gained Access to Ultra
In the early years of the war, knowledge of Ultra – British decoded German cypher traffic encrypted by the Enigma machine – was limited to only the most senior American government leaders and military...
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Book Review – The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945
The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 by Rick Atkinson, is the third volume in his Liberation Trilogy. Begun in 2002 with the release of An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa,...
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The Trident Conference
With North Africa liberated and plans for Operation Husky, the invasion of Sicily, on track, the question confronting the United States and Great Britain was: What’s next? That was the subject of the...
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Global Trends 2030: What Does the Future Hold?
The National Intelligence Council (NIC) has released its quadrennial report forecasting global trends that have a major impact on our world, “Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds,” in shorthand,...
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Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death, Arrives at Auschwitz
On May 24, 1943, an SS-Hauptsturmführer (captain) formerly of the Waffen-SS and medically unfit for combat as the result of wounds received on the eastern front, received orders transferring him to the...
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