Was not a primary lesson of the past, from Prussia to Weimar and the Third Reich, that the army must never show force inside Germany?
Why would they not want the usual army of third party software suppliers on this new hardware?
By the end of the war, a third to a half of the Confederate army had deserted, and more than 300, 000 Southern whites were fighting for the Union.
This raises the third salient fact, which is that the Army failed to act.
The feat was prodigious, requiring most of Third Army to swing sharply left while keeping the Saar front secure.
Third, the Sri Lankan army is on the offensive, and believes a victory is in its grasp.
Gen Carter's comments come as the MoD announces a third round of 5, 300 Army redundancies - as part of a drive to cut the number of regulars in the UK's Army from 102, 000 to 82, 000 by 2017.
George S. Patton's Third Army when it liberated the camp on April 11, 1945.
On Monday a British Army spokesman said members of the Third Parachute Regiment were heading in large numbers for Basra's old city.
The Palestinians also captured a third Israeli soldier at an Army outpost near Israel's border with Gaza.
Mr Haq liked to quote the example of Costa Rica, which, he said, chose to abolish its army and now spends a third of its national income on education and health, and is the only prosperous democracy in Central America.
The Pentagon plans to replace about 55, 000 Humvees, or one-third of the fleet used by the U.S. Army and Marine Corps.
Franklin Roosevelt, who presided over a country with a third-rate army, ordered an industrial transformation of the American economy on a scale that seemed simply out of reach, with the focused, urgent aim of defeating the Nazis.
The Afghan National Army, which has to replace and train nearly a third of its force every year because of desertion and attrition, is facing an insurgency that has not given up the fight.
"As in the election's first round, ISAF will only provide third-layer of security, reinforcing the Afghan National Police and Afghan National Army in line with the security plan signed by the chairman of the Afghan Independent Election Commission along with representatives from the Afghan Ministry of the Interior and Ministry of Defense, and ISAF in 2008, " Shanks said.
Cpl Day, who joined the Army in 2005 and was deployed to Afghanistan on 2 October, was the third British female to have died while serving in Afghanistan since 2001.
The armed forces have indeed been shrunk, but not without hiccups: army strength, under the peace accords, was to be cut by a third, to 31, 000, but then the generals suddenly claimed it was only 35, 000 anyway, so much smaller cuts were in order.
It is thought that General Musharraf may make an announcement after the third and last batch of local elections in August and before his term as head of the army expires on October 7th.
Alta's new military charger designs give a picture of how that world may look: according to the Army Research Laboratory, a soldier's load can weigh 100 pounds, over a third of which are batteries.
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Expect more union trouble after the unveiling, on July 7th, of the second stage of a five-year plan, also inherited from the right, to turn France's army into a volunteer, professional force, cutting numbers by a third within four years.
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