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When Logistics Ruled

The airlift was one of the outstanding successes of the war, carrying 738,667 tons of supplies to China and ferrying 4,671 aircraft over a three-and-one-quarter year period. What made it even more remarkable was the starting point for the airlift was at the end of the world, literally for the United States.

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The Sino-Indian War, 1962

Although India was among the first countries to grant diplomatic recognition to the People’s Republic of China, the Chinese annexation of Tibet in 1951 changed the situation, with Chinese maps claiming territory south of the McMahon Line (agreed as part of the 1914 Simla Convention) and periodic Chinese cross-border incursions.

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Enemies of Liberty: The Continental Army Against the Corps of Hesse-Cassel

Great Britain would not have been able to wage war as it did during the American Revolution without the assistance of a number of German states, most notably that of Hessen-Cassel. Despite pre-existing colonial discontent, the outbreak of armed hostilities in April 1775 caught both the British government and its military badly unprepared – the peace-time army was small, and augmentation and expansion to the size required to wage war first in North America and, after 1778, across the globe, would take considerable time. 

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