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New Guinea 1942–43

As its military campaigns in the Philippines and Dutch East Indies successfully concluded in early 1942, Japan turned its attention eastward. Japan’s goal in the South Pacific was to secure a defensive perimeter to resist future Allied attempts to reverse its conquests in the Indies and Southeast Asia.

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Putin’s Outsourced Warfighting

One of the striking features of Russia’s current war in Ukraine is that it is often, perhaps inaccurately, described as a “mercenary war” because it is being fought not by conscripts serving out their national service, or even reservists summoned back to arms, but by volunteers

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Across Generations

I’ve found myself in a number of email conversations with various family members of these men, mainly children, and now a granddaughter. I’ve heard stories of the later lives of men who “were very private about their time in World War II,” or who “never talked much about it.” 

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