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From across the Pond comes a highly informative, and extremely entertaining podcast on World War II, titled “We Have Ways”. The name of the show comes both from the very clichéd line, “Vee haf vays of making you talk” used by menacing cinematic Nazi interrogators right up to the first Indiana Jones movie, and also a key laugh line in the 1980s WW II Britcom ‘Allo, ‘Allo (more on that show, and its relevance, later).
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A Quiet Cadence: A Novel by Mark Treanor (Naval Institute Press, May 2020, 392 pages) We Few, We Happy Few The
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Lions of the Sky by Paci Chierici (Braveship Books, 2019, 292 pages) Lions of the Sky by Paco Chierici was
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First Principles is an indispensable work that must permeate classrooms and personal libraries. Thomas Ricks bestows several years of study to include: Aristotle, Plutarch, Cato, Cicero, Presidential personal letters, journals, Greek, Roman, and Scottish history (sixty-four pages of notes with endless resources) neatly packaged into Parts I, II, and III with the epilogue being the crowning jewel.
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Christopher Little from “Why We Lead” and DODReads are partnering together to help fund the mission of supporting life-long learners
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DODReads is looking for a few military professionals to promote the Military reading list that are sold on DODReads. The affiliate
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This is the first Milspouse blog post Some current websites that cater to MilSpouses: Military Spouse Jobs The MILSPO Project
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Like my buddy Storm Williams likes to say, “getting a box of books is like a care package for the
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On May 8, millions in Europe celebrated V-E Day or Victory in Europe Day.
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“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood…”
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Behind all advice is an unspoken expectation that the one who follows ends up unhappy and unsatisfied with life. We like to think of crowed followers as lemmings simply going along with the flow and failing to living life to their the full potential.
Every day just after morning colors nearly every sailor goes through a predictable routine; they login to their NMCI machines to read the news. Those sailors then use the information they gathered to formulate their opinions, basises, and worldview.
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