DavidIsby
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DAVID ISBY's latest book is THE DECISIVE DUEL: SPITFIRE VS. 109 at http://t.co/B5CMf3uT7F. .
Joined July 2012
@almurray I refuse to watch anything involving someone with two first names.
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At the National Press Club in Washington, I recently received the 2023 Outstanding Achievement Award, part of the annual Defence Media Awards, “celebrating the best in defence journalism”. (The award’s the thing in front of me in the photograph).
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@Archer83Able Murdoch-owns WSJ is openly musing about a Guns over Butter strategy when one in seven Americans is hungry. That just sounds about right in an Oligarchical America.
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Only fast dreadnought in the UK at the end, in case the Germans had made a dash for neutral ports or a final death ride.
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https://t.co/jnXFe1nrE4 WINSTON CHURCHILL AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF CONFLICT Talk for the Baltimore Round Table for Military History 21 July 2022
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Nawroz Mubarak! Wishing everyone -- despite all that has happened -- a happy new year.
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Recently received one small piece of good news. Responding to my e-mail asking if he needed help, an Afghan I worked with told me he had been living in the Gulf for 2+ years but thanked me for my concern and offered to lend me any money I might need,
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https://t.co/DYu4GQY7Rq The US Army's Ranger units have been deployed to conflicts worldwide for the past 20 years. This article (from 2018) describes their combat record in Korea. the the Rangers' return in the 1970s and takes thir story up to 2001.
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https://t.co/nQ7Ydh0DZ6 It took 100 years for Harry Ottolini's account of his role in the fighting of 1918 to see print. He wrote it in the endpapers of his regimental history. I bought his copy from a used bookstore and edited what he had written long before.
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https://t.co/Nowchka53p 1917 saw the emergence of special operations as part of late modern warfare. My article, done for the centennial, is about 1917 special operations, operators (like T.E. Lawrence) and technologies (like the stealth blimp ).
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https://t.co/88d7QsRgG2 My article on Afghanistan's Air Force was written before the current crisis, but the dependence on contractor personnel, targeted killing of personnel and limitations on air-ground cooperation have all become increasingly important.
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https://t.co/oBcTd0fdv2 My article on the Zeebrugge Raid of 1918 was done for the centennial. I am relinking it because it is both a story that should be remembered and one that can provide lessons for today's special operators
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https://t.co/vskKljXudu The guy in the cool fez is Sterling Loop Larrabee, West Point Class of 1912. Out after two years, joined Philippines Constabulary (hence the fez) and then the Royal Naval Division and Gallipoli in 1915. My article is A WEST POINTER ON GALLIPOLI.
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https://t.co/s2gMzCUO36 This is a repost of my article that appeared in OVER THE FRONT in early 2020 (when there were multiple distractions). THE SLOW FALL OF AIRSHIP SS Z.51 is about the loss of a Royal Naval Air Service airship on 15 August 1918.
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https://t.co/We78gZ3M5T David Kennedy (in the photograph) , in 1918 was in the 24th Aero Squadron in France, flying Salmson 2-seaters. I put his letters together with photographs and official records in the summer 2021 issue of CROSS and COCKADE INTERNATIONAL.
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