John Beatty

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  • Buddies
    9/28/2007
    Ranger buddies are expected to take care of each other. Sometimes to the very last.
  • The Feud
    9/28/2007
    A sniper team...a hillside...a long running war...what difference does it make where or when...
  • Bluffing
    9/28/2007
    The real heroes of this story are destroyers "Johnston" and "Hoel," and the destroyer escort "Samuel B. Roberts" sacrificed off Samar on 25 October 1944 during the Battle of Leyte Gulf in the most heroic single action of World War II.
  • Tales of the Three Anchors: Life Saver
    9/27/2007
    Not everyone who "stands and waits" is satisfied with that role. Sometimes they go out and drum up business.
  • Tales of the Three Anchors: Route Step
    9/27/2007
    A defeated army is always a sad sight. A defeated army taking itself home to a defeated country can be worse. But after all of that, there is humanity.
  • Not Yet
    9/27/2007
    Stories told by the author in his own voice of his own life are said to be compelling. What do you think?
  • The Age of Inequality: The Philosophy of American Military Power in the 21st Century
    9/18/2007
    American military philosophy has been developed over the centuries based on a need for defense of a way of life. It needs not only new direction, but new ways of thinking.
  • Shiloh: The Federal Right
    9/14/2007
    Overshadowed by the Hornet's Nest on the Federal left, Grant's right flank at Shiloh is nontheless notable as a heroic stand against terrific odds.
  • Shiloh: An Introduction
    9/14/2007
    The state of the conflict and the opposing armies before the battle
  • Shiloh: The Hornet's Nest
    9/14/2007
    Grant told his men to "hold at all hazards," and that was exactly what they did.
  • Shiloh: The Confederacy's Desperate Situation
    9/14/2007
    The Confederate view of their world before Shiloh, the immediate plan and opening moves.
  • Shiloh: The Battlefield and the Federal Army
    9/14/2007
    In the Law of Unintended Consequences, what someone does can always have the reverse effect of what was intended. Nowhere in the American Civil War was this made as clear as at Shiloh.
  • Shiloh: The North's Dilemma
    9/14/2007
    A review of Northern sucesses and failures, strategic difficulties, advantages, armies and senior commanders in the spring of 1862.
  • Shiloh: Powell's Patrol
    9/14/2007
    This was the initial skirmish between Union and Confederate forces around Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee on the evening of 5 April and the morning of 6 April 1862.

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