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Books with anti-war themes have explicit anti-war messages or have been described as having significant anti-war themes or sentiments. Not all of these books have a direct connection to any particular anti-war movement. The list includes fiction and non-fiction, and books for children and younger readers.
By the late 1980s, the "Napalm" cadence had been taught at training to all branches of the United States Armed Forces.Its verses delight in the application of superior US technology that rarely if ever actually hits the enemy: "the [singer] fiendishly narrates in first person one brutal scene after another: barbecued babies, burned orphans, and decapitated peasants in an almost cartoonlike ...
Direct attacks almost never work, one must first upset the enemy's equilibrium, fix weakness and attack strength, Eight rules of strategy: 1) adjust your ends to your means, 2) keep your object always in mind, 3) choose the line of the least expectation, 4) exploit the line of least resistance, 5) take the line of operations which offers the ...
One Day Too Long-Top Secret Site 85 and the Bombing of North Vietnam by Timothy N. Castle; One Day in a Long War. May 10, 1972, Air War, North Vietnam by Jeffrey Ethell; Over The Beach-The Air War In Vietnam by Zalin Grant; Palace Cobra-A Fighter Pilot In The Vietnam Air War by Ed Rasimus; Pak Six-A Story of the War in the Skies of North ...
A one-liner is a joke that is delivered in a single line. A good one-liner is said to be pithy – concise and meaningful. [1] Comedians and actors use this comedic method as part of their performance, and many fictional characters are also known to deliver one-liners, including James Bond, who often makes pithy and laconic quips after disposing of a villain.
One of the first and most influential of these was the 1916 novel Le Feu (or Under Fire) by the French novelist and soldier Henri Barbusse. Barbusse's novel, with its open criticism of nationalist dogma and military incompetence, initiated the anti-war movement in literature that flourished after the war.
A military library or base library, is a special library used by military personnel, their dependents, and civilian contractors located within or associated with a military base or defense organization. The primary duty of many military libraries is to assist with professional development, personal education, and leisure.
Types of military fiction include: War novels, including written military fiction [6] [7] War films, military fiction in cinema [8] [4] Military and war video games [5] [9] Subgenres of military fiction include: Military science fiction [1] [3] [7] [4] Naval fiction [10] Indian military fiction (of India)