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Geoff Webb

Take a Stand

By December 23rd, 1944 entire US Divisions were still retreating as the German Army continued to advance through the Ardennes Forest in a last-ditch effort to win World War II. On that frigid morning 65 years ago, a sergeant in a retreating tank destroyer spotted a bedraggled paratrooper chipping a foxhole out of the frozen […]

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130-year-old Truth

Of all the things we memorized at West Point, one of my favorites was Schofield’s Definition of Discipline. It’s an excerpt from Major General John Schofield’s address to the Military Academy’s graduating class of 1879. It’s 130 years old, but it’s still true today. Enjoy it. Then employ it! The discipline which makes the soldiers

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