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... positions . The positions were fairly well stocked with equipment , weapons , and food , and the advance became necessarily slow . The usual method of attack was to smother the caves with air and ground bombardment so that demolition ...
... positions . The positions were fairly well stocked with equipment , weapons , and food , and the advance became necessarily slow . The usual method of attack was to smother the caves with air and ground bombardment so that demolition ...
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... positions facing the enemy attack . On 19 July the enemy opened the assault on Taejon with artillery and mortar fire , forcing U.N. troop withdrawal three days later to positions along the east bank of the Naktong River . On 7 August ...
... positions facing the enemy attack . On 19 July the enemy opened the assault on Taejon with artillery and mortar fire , forcing U.N. troop withdrawal three days later to positions along the east bank of the Naktong River . On 7 August ...
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... positions . The examples we shall present are not to be construed as actual targets or associated with probable courses of action by an enemy . They were selected purely as examples of the general categories of situation - control ...
... positions . The examples we shall present are not to be construed as actual targets or associated with probable courses of action by an enemy . They were selected purely as examples of the general categories of situation - control ...
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... position . He is no longer able to support a pro- tracted siege . If he gambles on quick victory through all - out attack , friendly ground and air firepower can pin him down long enough for friendly troops to pull back and for smaller ...
... position . He is no longer able to support a pro- tracted siege . If he gambles on quick victory through all - out attack , friendly ground and air firepower can pin him down long enough for friendly troops to pull back and for smaller ...
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... position during the same hearings was no less unequivocal : " We cannot leave the question of establishing the limits of sovereignty and the boundaries and jurisdiction in a perpetual vacuum . . . . " 26 This has always been the ...
... position during the same hearings was no less unequivocal : " We cannot leave the question of establishing the limits of sovereignty and the boundaries and jurisdiction in a perpetual vacuum . . . . " 26 This has always been the ...
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Page 60 - ... susceptible of no limitation not imposed by itself. Any restriction upon it, deriving validity from an external source, would imply a diminution of its sovereignty to the extent of the restriction, and an investment of that sovereignty to the same extent in that power which could impose such restriction. All exceptions, therefore, to the full and complete power of a nation within its own territories, must be traced up to the consent of the nation itself. They can flow from no other legitimate...
Page 54 - The United States of America is hereby declared to possess and exercise complete and exclusive national sovereignty in the air space above the United States, including the air space above all inland waters and the air space above those portions of the adjacent marginal high seas, bays, and lakes, over which by international law or treaty or convention the United States exercises national jurisdiction.
Page 50 - An enlisted member of an armed force on active duty whose term of enlistment expires while he is suffering from disease or injury incident to service and not due to his misconduct, and who needs medical care or hospitalization, may be retained on active duty, with his consent, until he recovers to the extent that he is able to meet the physical requirements for reenlistment, or it is determined that recovery to that extent is impossible.
Page 148 - It is certain that Europe would have been Communized, like Czechoslovakia, and London under bombardment some time ago but for the deterrent of the atomic bomb in the hands of the United States.
Page 61 - Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, constitute the immediate military staff of the Secretary of Defense. The Joint Chiefs of Staff are the principal military advisers to the President, the National Security Council, and the Secretary of Defense.
Page 45 - Force, shall be transferred to and vested in the Secretary of the Air Force...
Page 54 - The Congress hereby declares that the Government of the United States has, to the exclusion of all foreign nations, complete sovereignty of the airspace over the lands and waters of the United States, including the Canal Zone.
Page 55 - For the purposes of this Convention the territory of a State shall be deemed to be the land areas and territorial waters adjacent thereto under the sovereignty, suzerainty, protection or mandate of such State.
Page 55 - DASA, is responsible to the Secretary of Defense through the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Page 63 - Commission, is quoted in a 1959 staff report of the House Select Committee on Astronautics and Space Exploration...