PUBLIC MARKS with tag guerre

Canadian forces are actually suffering the most. They're mostly deployed in the southern Kandahar, which adjoins the province of Helmand, where the bulk of British troops are posted. Both are Taliban strongholds.

And, if wounded soldiers are factored in, a shocking picture emerges.

karl le 21 aoû 2009 04:33

Salut Olivier,

tu seras peut-être intéressé par les lettres et communications des personnes des camps japonais, comme par exemple Lone Heart Mountain du fond d'archives de Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives (JARDA).

And that is why I am here. I chose to come here rather than stay away. I chose to see for myself rather than not to see. I chose to speak to you rather than to say nothing.

But no one should ever neglect the psychological, cultural, political, and human dimensions of warfare. War is inevitably tragic, inefficient, and uncertain, and it is important to be skeptical of systems analyses, computer models, game theories, or doctrines that suggest otherwise. We should look askance at idealistic, triumphalist, or ethnocentric notions of future conflict that aspire to transcend the immutable principles and ugly realities of war, that imagine it is possible to cow, shock, or awe an enemy into submission, instead of tracking enemies down hilltop by hilltop, house by house, block by bloody block. As General William Tecumseh Sherman said, "Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster."

The original First World War collection comprised over 1,000 items of film relating mainly to the last three years of the war. Highlights of the collection include the original 1916 record of The Battle of the Somme, home front material such as Mrs John Bull Prepared (1918), a substantial run of the French official newsreel Annales de la Guerre and the remarkable record of German U-boat operations in the Mediterranean in 1917, Der Magische Gurtel.

The environment minister said he would create an environmental police force with 3,000 armed officers to help combat deforestation.

The First World War was a war dominated by high explosives and heavy artillery. Battlefield casualties included an unprecedented number with horrific facial injuries - injuries so severe the men were commonly unrecognizable to loved ones and friends. Often unable to see, hear, speak eat or drink, they struggled to re-assimilate back into civilian life. This secondary tragedy - the living unable to "live" - catalyzed Surgeon Sir Harold Gillies to transform the fledgling discipline of plastic surgery based on his unrivalled observation of the profoundly wounded and his ability to push the parameters of the profession beyond all known techniques.

As we swerved around another pile of rubble and some pylons along Tianmu Rd. I asked him whether it was tougher to drive a tank in the army or to drive a cab in Shanghai ? He didn't hesitate: "driving a cab in Shanghai".