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Aghanistan and the War Against Bureaucracy

09 Dec

For anyone interested in the complexities and frustrations American fighting forces are experiencing in Afghanistan, The History Guy highly recommends reading an op-ed piece in the New York Times written by Afghanistan veteran Jonathan Vaccaro.  His article shows the inane bureaucracy imposed on the front-line commanders and soldiers who are doing their best to protect the Afghan population from the Taliban and al-Qaida.  Read the article at:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/08/opinion/08vaccaro.html

 
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68th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor Attack

07 Dec

December 7, 2009, marks the 68th anniversary of the surprise Japanese attack on the U.S. military bases in and around Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.  This attack launched America into World War Two and literally changed the course of history.  Without being attacked first, it is highly unlikely that the U.S. would have entered World War Two.  By attacking the United States, Japan thought it would cripple or destroy the U.S. Pacific fleet, thereby preventing American forces from stopping Japan’s Asian blitzkrieg.  In the days and weeks following the Pearl Harbor attack, Japanese forces attacked American, British, Canadian, Australian, New Zealander, and Dutch forces as Japan seized the Philippines, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaya, the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), and New Guinea.  American islands at Wake and Guam were also attacked and occupied. 

Believing that America had suffered a crippling blow, Hitler and Mussolini also declared war on the United States, thereby bringing American power into the war against the Nazis and the Fascists.  As history now shows, America’s entry into World War Two ensured Allied victory, as the Nazis and Fascists were destroyed in Europe, and Japan fell under the power of two atomic bombs some four years after their ill-fated and ill-advised assault on Pearl Harbor.

For more information, go to: http://www.historyguy.com/battle_of_pearl_harbor.html

 
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Posted in History, History Updates, japan, This Date in World War Two, War and Conflict, Wars, world war two

 

World War Two Updates- Vocabulary and Biography Pages

22 Nov

Two new pages dealing with World War Two Vocabulary and World War Two Biographies are at:

http://www.historyguy.com/worldwartwo/world_war_two_vocabulary.htm

http://www.historyguy.com/worldwartwo/world_war_two_biographies.htm

 
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Posted in germany, History, History Updates, world war two

 

World War Two Updates-Battle of Atlantic

22 Nov

New pages related to World War Two deal with the Battle of the Atlantic and the sinking of the German raider, the Admiral Graf Spee in 1939.

http://www.historyguy.com/worldwartwo/naval_war_battle_of_the_atlantic.htm

http://www.historyguy.com/worldwartwo/naval_war_battle_of_the_river_plate.htm

 
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New Biography Page on General McChrystal, Afghanistan Commander

27 Oct

George Stanley McChrystal (b. August, 14, 1954)
General Stanley A. McChrystal is an American army general who was named the commander of allied forces in Afghanistan, and assumed command of those forces in May of 2009.
General McChrystal is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. McChyrstal is a Green Beret and an Army Ranger, as well as a veteran commander in Special Operations, also known as “Black Ops.”
McChrystal served in Afghanistan as chief of staff of the military operations in 2001 and 2002. He also commanded the 75th Ranger Regiment and served tours in Saudi Arabia during the Persian Gulf War in 1991.
Forces under General McChrystal’s command found and captured Saddam Hussein and with tracking and killing Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaida in Mesopotamia (al-Qaida in Iraq).
General McChrystal replaced General David McKiernan…

http://www.historyguy.com/biofiles/mcchrystal_stanley_general.htm

 
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German Invasion of Poland Images and Video

31 Aug

Two new pages with pictures and video related  to the German Invasion of Poland in 1939 are now online.  See them at: http://www.historyguy.com/worldwartwo/world_war_two_video_german_invasion_of_poland.htm and http://www.historyguy.com/worldwartwo/world_war_two_images_invasion_of_poland.htm

 
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September 1 is 70th Anniversary of German Invasion of Poland

30 Aug

September 1, 2009, will mark the 70th anniversary of the Nazi German invasion of Poland, which sparked World War Two in Europe.  Within days of the invasion, Britain, France, and others declared war on Germany in response.  On September 17, the Soviet Union invaded Poland from the East, sealing the eastern European nation’s fate.  Poland was to be occupied (in part or in whole), for the rest of the war, and would lose a larger percentage of its population due to the war than any other participant in World War Two.

Read more at http://www.historyguy.com/worldwartwo/german_invasion_of_poland_1939.htm

 
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Wars of Poland

23 Aug

 

The Flag of Poland

The Flag of Poland

New page now online which looks at the wars of Poland from about 1600 to the Present.

At: http://www.historyguy.com/wars_of_poland.htm

 
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Posted in Europe, History, History Updates, russia, War and Conflict, Wars, world war two

 

Wars of 1939: Start of World War Two

16 Jul

Uploaded a new page called The Wars and Conflicts of1939: The Eve of World War Two.

at: http://www.historyguy.com/worldwartwo/wars_of_1939.htm

 

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History Guy Website Update

25 Apr

 

New and updated pages on the History Guy Website at http://www.historyguy.com include information on several wars and conflicts, including:

–The Habsburg-Valois wars of the 1400s and 1500s, which were waged largely in Italy between France and the Holy Roman Empire (which was dominated by Austria). See: http://www.historyguy.com/french_wars_in_italy_habsburg_valois_wars.htm

 

–The wars of The Habsburg Empire,(better known as Austria-Hungary), between the years 1815, at the end of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and 1918, at the end of the First World War, resulting in the collapse and death of the Habsburg Empire. See: http://www.historyguy.com/wars_of_habsburg_empire_austria-hungary_1815-1918.htm

–The wars in the region of Africa known as “The Horn of Africa,” including the nations of Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and Somalia.  This page discusses such wars as Somalia’s “Mad Mullah,” the ongoing Oromo resistance in Ethiopia, the Ogaden War, the bloody Ethiopian-Eritrean Wars, the Somali Civil War, and, most recently, the Somali Pirate Attacks that plague the shipping industry off the coast of Somalia.

See :http://www.historyguy.com/wars_of_the_horn_of_africa.htm

 
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