Tom Clancy is an author of many books concerning the military. ... The more recent occurance of defection to the US of a high ranking deputy chief of staff del Pi ¤o Dáaz happened in 1987 (pg. 24, "A flight to freedom"). ... The character helps Clancy to develop reasons for which such a high ranking commander would defect and later cause conflict to occur between the U.S. and Soviet Union. ... Vatutin was so brainwashed, like other high ranking officials, that he really believed in what he was doing. ... By convicting the high ranking spy who infiltrated the Soviet Union&...

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Being the two rival factions of the military who fought for power of Japan during the 1920's and 30's. ... Because these incidents went unpunished and the Japanese public rallied around them the military was able to push for greater militarism and an increasingly active role in government till the entire government was run by the military. ... They then proceeded to brutally murder many high ranking officials, including the previous Prime Minister Admiral Saito. ... As their actions were perceived as mutiny the fifteen ringleaders underwent a private military trial and were then exec...

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At first each country wanted a to have their own different way of punishing Nazi Germany after the war, for example the Soviet Union at the time, Joseph Stalin wanted to have an execution of more than 500,000 Nazi officials and those that had helped the Nazi in such inhumane acts, while Winston Churchill, the Great Britain Prime Minister only wanted the execution of the high ranking Nazi officials without any possibility of a trial whatsoever. ... The charter is known as London Charter of the International Military Tribunal. With other things in it, the Charter described three types of crim...

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One website recounting the events of the attack noted that, "The facilities at Pearl Harbor were undefended because military leaders thought Japan would never attack so close to the United States"(History.com Staff). ... Even the most advanced military country in the entire world could not recognize important hints that were right in front of them. ... Small mistakes made by ranking United States military officials resulted in major damage and destruction to an important part of the United States Navy. ... If the Japanese would not have attacked the United States and its military bases ...

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Before Pearl Harbor, Japan's military potential was often underrated. ... Military commentator Fletcher Pratt describe the Japanese as having "defects of the tubes of the inner ear . . . are generally myopic." ... It occurred mostly on the basis of speculation amongst high-ranking officials. ...

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Territories abroad to form a national military of citizens from another country. ... To the soldiers of the 65th this was a major accomplishment for Puerto Rican soldiers, given the era, Colonel Davila was amongst the very few highest ranking ethnic officers in the Army. ... For a tactical decision made by a ground forces Commander in the face of overwhelming odds, a decision usually justified by ranking Commanders, one hundred and sixty-two Puerto Ricans of the 65th Infantry were maliciously arrested. ...

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" Alperovitz claims that military experts have assessed Japan's "military vulnerability, particularly its shortages of everything from ammunition and fuel to trained personnel.... He quotes multiple high ranking officers discussing their sentiments about the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ... Alperovitz makes one fair claim and it's that the United States wanted to impress Russia with their military prowess by dropping the bombs on Japan. ... Alperovitz's second argument lies in the regrets of World War II military leaders. ... In any combat where these things ca...

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The Allied victory in World War I led to Belgian military rule in Burundi in 1916, known then as Ruanda-Urundi. ... Eighty-six high-ranking Bahutu officials were executed in late 1965; in all, between twenty-five hundred and five thousand Bahutus were killed during this dress rehearsal for a more horrendous genocide of the Bahutu people by Watutsis. ... By mid-May, Watutsi soldiers had completed their military operations against the so-called rebels. ... The OAU, founded in May, 1963, was considered by policymakers within and outside Africa as the legitimate forum for African states to settl...

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Germany was greatly affected by this because under the treaty, they were to follow some major changes financially, politically, militarily and territorially. ... Although he was successful in achieving his goals politically, economically, socially and militarily, his actions were not justified. ... He also made sure that the old members of the Communist Party before the 1917 and the high-ranking officials of the Red Army were executed to eliminate any threat to his power--Suppression of Opposition. ...

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Harry Truman and "The Bomb" The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki marked the end to the world's largest armed conflict. Over the past years many debates have surfaced over the ethics and morals of such an attack. The bomb itself caused massive numbers of casualties while the unknown ef...

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Georing was presumably the most famous and high ranking of all the defendants tried at Nuremberg. ... He stated that he did help rearm Germany but that was hardly a crime because the allied military inspectors watched as we broke the treaty of Versailles. ...

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