ARAB ISRAELI RELATIONS - Israel Issues An Appeal To Palestinians In Gaza.
The Israeli PM, Ehud Olmert issues a "last minute" appeal to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip to reject the militant leadership of Hamas and stop firing rockets at Israel, warning that he would not hesitate to use force. Other Israeli officials also issued hard-line statements, indicating that Israel might...

ARAB ISRAELI RELATIONS - Dec 26 - Israel Opens Gaza Border For Humanitarian Aid.
Israel reopens its border with Gaza to allow deliveries of humanitarian aid, despite continued rocket and mortar fire from the coastal strip and growing expectations of a large-scale Israeli military campaign against Palestinian militants. One rocket fired by militants landed short of its target and struck a house in...

ARAB ISRAELI RELATIONS - Dec 29 - Israel Set For Ground Invasion.
Israeli warplanes continue pounding the Gaza Strip as the casualty toll in the two-day offensive reached 296 killed and over 900 injured. At least 180 of the injured were in critical condition, Palestinian medical sources said. The UN Security Council urged an immediate end to all military activities in...

AFGHANISTAN - Dec 24 - Afghans And US Plan To Recruit Local Militias.
Taking a page from the successful experiment in Iraq, American commanders and Afghan leaders are preparing to arm local militias to help in the fight against a resurgent Taliban. B t along with hope, the move is raising fears here that the new armed groups could push the country...

LEBANON - Dec 26 - Lebanese Army Dismantles Eight Rockets Aimed At Israel.
Lebanese Army soldiers find and dismantle eight Katyusha rockets that were pointed south toward Israel. The rockets were found near the southern town of Naqura, in the border region where an expanded UN peacekeeping force has been monitoring an uneasy truce since the war in the summer of 2006...

WWH handguns: what would Duke have carried?
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In World War II handguns were probably the least significant weapon used by any combatant nation. Bayonets probably saw more action. Put a different way, if handguns had never been issued to anyone in that conflict, would the outcome have been different? [ILLUSTRATION...

A soldier for all humanity.
TODAY, many people are talking of Israel's military might. Today, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) can compare with the best in the world. Today, Israel, a small nation (located in the Middle East bordered by Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Egypt) with a population in 2008 of 7.28 million has...

The Waterloo armies; men, organization and tactics.
9781844155996 The Waterloo armies; men, organization and tactics. Haythornthwaite, Philip. Pen and Sword 2007 250 pages $39.99 Hardcover DC242 Waterloo scholar Haythornthwaite writes on the national armies at Waterloo, the French...

Digital warriors: many armies have opted for the incremental deployment of soldier system technologies to meet the immediate needs of ongoing combat operations. In an unusual twist of events, France appears to be leading the pack in terms of both calendar and deployed capabilities with its Felin.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Through the several 'modern soldier' programmes initiated in a number of nations, the main objective is to promote the soldier from a status of mere pawn on the chessboard to that of a knight able to make smarter moves--this by implementing technologies that not only...

From Clonmel to Peru: barbarism and civility in Vertue Rewarded; or, The Irish Princess.
Vertue Rewarded; or, The Irish Princess (1693) is one of the earliest recorded works of Irish prose fiction in the English language. Published just two years after the victory of the Protestant armies of William III over the Catholic forces of James II, it is also one of the...