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TERRORISM page.
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PRIMARY DOCUMENTS
How
to Request Military Service Records or Prove Military Service (DD Form 214)
Sun Tzu on The Art of War in
English Translation
PRIMARY DOCUMENT:
Laws of War
PRIMARY DOCUMENT:
NATO Treaty 1949
Military
- War Powers Resolution
Documents
in Military History
FedLaw - Military and War
LIEBER-CODE:
Instructions for Armies of the U.S. in the Field, 1863
The
Geneva Protocol of 1925: Poisonous or Other Gases, Bacteriological Warfare
GENEVA CONVENTION I,
1949: WOUNDED AND SICK IN ARMED FORCES IN THE FIELD
GENEVA CONVENTION II:
Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces
GENEVA CONVENTION III:
TREATMENT OF PRISONERS OF WAR
GENEVA CONVENTION IV:
Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War
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Treaties
Bureau of Verification and
Compliance: TREATIES & AGREEMENTS
American
Experience | War Letters
Experiencing War:
Veterans History Project (Library of Congress)
Battle
Lines: Letters from America's Wars
From
the Home Front and the Front Lines (American Treasures Exhibition, Library of
Congress)
More primary documents relating to history can be found on each of the following specific pages: Civil War, World War I, World War II, and Cold War - Korea - Vietnam - Gulf War - Operation Enduring Freedom - Operation Iraqi Freedom.
CAUSES OF WAR
Just
War Theory (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
JUST WAR
IN THE CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
Resources
in Just War Theory
CAUSES OF
WAR - bibliography of books, documents, and periodicals
PRIMARY DOCUMENT:
Laws of War
ISSUES OF WAR FACING THE WORLD TODAY
DefenseLINK
News - CURRENT EVENTS
Military Operations Page
21 GUN SALUTE
Origins
of the Twenty-One Gun Salute
Gun
Salute
NATO -
THE PENTAGON - U.S. DEPT. OF DEFENSE
PRIMARY
DOCUMENT: NATO Treaty 1949
NATO Official Homepage
NATO: The 28
NATO Member Countries
NATO Organisation:
Civilian organisation & structures
NATO : The 50th Anniversary
Homepage
NATO
Nuclear Doctrine & The NPT
Use of United States
Forces Abroad, 1798 - 1993
The Pentagon: Headquarters of the
United States Department of Defense
DefenseLINK - Official
Web Site of the U.S. Dept of Defense
For more info, check out the section on DEFENSE on my U.S. Government page.
MILITARY OPERATIONS
Squad-Leader.com
Military Operations Research Society
DOD 101 - United
States Military Operations
INTELLIGENCE, SPECIAL OPERATIONS & PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE
(PSYOPS)
The
Literature of Intelligence
Welcome to Special Operations.Com!
Air
Commando-Special Operations Code Names
U.S.
Special Operations Deployments and Missions
Special Forces.Net - Dedicated to
The Special Operations Soldier
US
Army Psychological Operations Forces
History of PSYOP -
Psychological Operations/Warfare
PSYOP - PSYWAR
Psychological Operations Psychological Warfare
Psychological
Operations PSYOP
Psyop Links
Propaganda Media
Psychological
Operations/Warfare Leaflets
EarthStation1.com -
The Radio Propaganda Page
Psychological
Operations (PSYOP) and the War on Terrorism
Afghanistan
(War of Terrorism) Leaflets
Iraq Leaflet Links
For more on the operations in Afghanistan, check out the TERRORISM section on my U.S. Government page and visit my page on Cold War - Korea - Vietnam - Desert Storm - Enduring Freedom - Iraqi Freedom.
VETERANS
Department
of Veterans Affairs - Site
Map
National Personnel
Records Center
How
to Request Military Service Records or Prove Military Service (DD Form 214)
The
1973 Fire at the National Personnel Records Center (St. Louis, MO)
Veteran Data and Information
National Cemetery System, Dept of
Veterans Affairs
VFW, Veterans of Foreign Wars,
veterans benefits, nonprofit service organization
Dept. of Veterans Affairs, Education
Service Home Page
NARA
| ALIC | Military Resources: Veterans
NARA
| Research Room | Access to Military Service and Pension Records
History of GI Bill
Women Veterans
American Veterans Traveling Tribute: Home Page
Veterans History Project
(Library of Congress)
USIGS
Military Collection's Veteran Ancestor Registry
UNITED STATES SUBMARINE VETERANS Inc.
National Website
State Women
Veterans Coordinators
Links to
WW2 Veterans Websites
World War II Merchant
Marines
Veterans'
Day (Second Monday in November)
Memorial Day
- Memorial
Day: History - Memorial
Day
National Moment of Remembrance - Memorial Day
Welcome To MilitaryUSA
Experiencing War: Veterans
History Project (Library of Congress)
Homeless
Veterans
Veterans Affairs Canada
The
Second World War - Veterans Affairs Canada
POW/MIA
POW/MIA
HOMEPAGE
AII POW-MIA
American Ex-Prisoners of War Organization
American
Experience | Return With Honor
Vietnam Medal of Honor Recipients
who were POWs
Women
POWs
American Women
Prisoners of War
RANK - INSIGNIA - UNIFORMS
Officer
Rank Insignia - Enlisted
Rank Insignia
DefenseLINK
News: Insignia: The Way You Tell Who's Who in the Military
U.S.
Military Ranks
Rank Insignia
five star
generals
Highest-Ranking
Officers in U.S. History
Military Sister
Act - with Stars on their shoulders!
History
of U.S. Army Officer Rank - Main Menu
History of
Enlisted Ratings and Jobs in the U.S. Navy
Military
Ranks Page - includes ranks from other countries
British
and US Military Ranks Compared
CHANGES
IN THE UNIFORM OF THE ARMY 1774-1895
History
of US Navy Uniforms, 1776-1981
Uniforms
of the US Navy: Regulations and Other Official Documents
Navy Uniforms
Military Women's
Uniforms - Past and Present
Wearing
Decorations, Service Medals, Badges, Unit Awards, and Appurtenaces
WOMEN & MINORITIES IN UNIFORM
Minority
Groups in World War II
Integration
of the Armed Forces 1940-1965
WOMEN
Military Woman
American Women in Uniform,
Veterans Too!
TIMELINE:
American Women in War
Experiencing
War (Women at War): Stories from the Veterans History Project of the Library of
Congress
The Women Who Were Spies
American
Women Spies
Military Women
"Firsts"
MILITARY
WOMEN FIRSTS
WOMEN
MILITARY TRIVIA
The Women Who Gave Their
Lives
Women
Military Casualties
Women
POWs - American
Women Prisoners of War
PROMINENT
WOMEN BURIED AT ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY
Women Medal Recipients
Military Women in
Collectibles
Women Veterans
State Women
Veterans Coordinators
Women In Military Service.html
Women's Military
History
Military
Women in Film
Military
Women in Television
Military
Women's Uniforms - Past and Present
Military Sister
Act - with Stars on their shoulders!
Women Soldiers in the
American Revolutionary War
Women in the Navy-19th
century
Women in the Civil War
Women in War of 1812,
Mexican American, & Spanish American War
Women in World War One
Women in World War II
WASP WWII Home Page
The American Experience
| Fly Girls
WASP, Women
Airforce Service Pilots of WWII Home Page
WASP Museum » The National WASP WWII
Museum
Oveta
Culp Hobby and the Women's Army Corps Exhibit — Fondren Library
Oveta
Culp Hobby, commanding officer of the Women's Army Corps
WAVES
Collection at Oklahoma State University
WWII
Women's Recruiting Posters
Women in the Korean
Conflict
Women in Vietnam
American Women in
Uniform, Desert Storm
American Women in
Uniform, Bosnia and Beyond
Women
in Army History
Army
Nurse Corps History - People
remember World War II nurses - Corregidor
Nurse
Oral Histories of
World War II: Navy Nurse POW, Philippines
Imperial
War Museum London - Women and War
United
States Navy - Women in the Navy - American
Women Mariners in World War II
NATIVE AMERICANS
Native Americans
in the U.S. Military
Native American Medal of
Honor Winners
Choctaw Code
Talkers of World War I
World
War I & II Choctaw Code Talkers
Cryptology: Navajo Code
Talkers in World War II
Navajo Code Talkers'
Dictionary
AFRICAN AMERICANS
African American Warriors
African
Americans in the US Army
Fact
Sheet: Black History at Arlington
Afro-Americans
and the Military, 1939-45
AFRICAN-AMERICANS
IN MILITARY HISTORY/World War II
World War II
African American Medal of Honor Recipients
WW
II and Executive Order 8802
African American
Freedom Fighters: Soldiers for Liberty
History of
Black Military Service
Tuskegee Airmen Inc., Tuskegee
Airmen of World War II, TUSKEGEE AIRMEN
NATIONAL MUSEUM
Integration
of the Armed Forces
ASIAN-AMERICANS
Asian-Pacific
Americans - Newly Presented Medals of Honor
Experiencing
War: Asian Pacific Americans - Going for Broke
DefenseLink
News Article: An Asian Pacific American Timeline
Asian-Pacific
Americans in the U.S. Army
For much more info, check out the specific war links below or on my Oz's
Table of Contents page. Also, visit my Women,
Native Americans,
and African Americans
webpages.
MILITARY ACADEMIES
The
United States Naval Academy - mirror site.
USMA: United States Military Academy, West Point-
Army
United States Air Force Academy
United States Coast Guard Academy
U.S. Merchant Marine Academy - Kings Point
How
to Apply to the U.S. Military Academies
Virginia Military Institute
Citadel home page
Texas A&M University Corps Of
Cadets
Salute! America's Military Academies,
Schools, Colleges, & Institutes
NAVY
U.S.
Navy: Welcome Aboard
U.S. Navy Office of the Information
Naval Media Center Home
Page
Navy Personnel Command
Naval History and Heritage Command
The Military And
Wars - The Navy
NavSource Naval History Photographic
History Of The U.S. Navy
Naval-History.Net: archived
by British Library & U.S. Library of Congress
Navy
Dept. Library: Online Publications and Documents
Navy NewsStand - All
Hands Magazine
Wars and conflicts of the
U.S. Navy
Haze Gray & Underway - Naval History and
Photography
Naval Vessel Register - Status of
Commissioned and Decommissioned Surface Ships and Submarines
U.S. Navy History
Naval Historical Center
FAQs
Naval Traditions and
Trivia
Historic Naval Ships Visitors
Guide
DANFS: Dictionary
of American Naval Fighting Ships - Dictionary
of American Naval Fighting Ships Online
US Navy Ships
Navy
Fact Files - Planes, Surface Ships, Submarines, Etc.
Navy
Fact Files - Surface Ships
Navy
Fact Files - Submarines
United
States Navy - Women in the Navy
U.S. Navy Policy
on Family Members Serving Together, Sole Survivor Policy
History of Enlisted
Ratings and Jobs in the U.S. Navy
History
of US Navy Uniforms, 1776-1981 - Uniforms
of the US Navy: Regulations and Other Official Documents - Navy
Uniforms
DoD USS Cole Commission
Report
HyperWar: U.S.Navy in
World War II
HyperWar: US Navy
Ships, 1940-1945
WAVES Collection at
Oklahoma State University
IMAGES:
Warship Gallery, Turn of the Century
The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Naval
and Maritime
Ships of the Old Navy, A
History of Sailing Ships of the Royal Navy
Maritime
History Citations for the OED
The Naval Dockyards Society
Website
Destroyers OnLine Home
Page
Destroyers OnLine -
Destroyer Escorts
Navy-related web sites
The United States Naval & Shipbuilding
Museum and USS Salem
United States Navy Blue Angels
WARSHIP
Info on SUBMARINES can be found below in its own section.
More maritime history can be found on my General World History page as well at the specific topics and time periods on my Table of Contents page.
MARINES
MarineLINK
The Military
And Wars - Marine Corps
United States Marine Corps
History and Museums Division
For more, check out specific time periods and topics on my Table of Contents page.
COAST GUARD
United
States Coast Guard Home Page
Coast Guard Marine Safety and
Environmental Protection
Coast Guard:
Marine Safety History Index
MERCHANT MARINE
American
Merchant Marine at War - Revolution to World War II to today
U.S. Merchant Marine Academy - Kings Point
World War II Merchant Marines
For more info on the Navy, Marines, Coast Guard, and Merchant Marine, please check out the links to specific wars at the bottom of this page.
AIR FORCE & AVIATION
Air
Force Link - Official Web Site of the U. S. Air Force
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE MUSEUM
The Military
And Wars - United States Air Force
Air Force Association
US Military Aircraft
Historic Aircraft
Index
The Ninety-Nines, Inc, International
Organization of Women Pilots
Tuskegee Airmen Inc. - Tuskegee
Airmen - Tuskegee
Airmen of World War II - TUSKEGEE AIRMEN
NATIONAL MUSEUM
WASP WWII Home Page - WASP,
Women Airforce Service Pilots of WWII Home Page - WASP
Museum » The National WASP WWII Museum
Zeno's Warbird Video Drive-In
The
United States Army Air Force in World War Two
Aerospaceweb.org
| Aircraft Museum - Military Helicopters - Boeing
Military Helicopters - The
RotorHead - Military Helicopters - Scott
Sather's Helicopter Pages - Helicopter
Aviation
U.S.A.A.F.
Resource Group-U.S.A.A.F. Aviation Legends
The Military And
Wars - United States Army Air Corps
Blue Angels : Official Website
For more, check out specific time periods and topics on my Table of Contents page.
ARMY
Welcome
to the U.S. Army Homepage
THE ARMY OF
THE UNITED STATES
Welcome to the U.S. Army Center of
Military History
The Military And
Wars - The Army - The
Military And Wars - United States Army Air Corps
ARMY HISTORICAL
SERIES
U.S.
Army Flag and Its Streamers
Women
in Army History
African
Americans in the US Army
Resources on
U.S. Army Operations in Caves and Tunnels
CHANGES IN
THE UNIFORM OF THE ARMY 1774-1895
For more, check out specific time periods and topics on my Table of Contents page.
THE RANGERS
Rangers,
Lead the Way!
The United States Army Ranger
Association
For more info, check out the "Special Operations" section above.
NATIONAL GUARD
The
National Guard Bureau
The Air National Guard
Army National Guard - ARNG
National Guard Association of the United
States Main Page
For more info on the Air Force, Army, and National Guard, please check out the links to specific wars at the bottom of this page.
MISC. SITES ON MILITARY
BRANCHES
U.S.
Military Online by William M. Arkin
Soldier Systems Center Homepage
Military City - gateway to military news
and information - Air Force Times, Army Times, etc.
National
Personnel Records Center (St. Louis, MO) - The
1973 Fire
Welcome to Military.com --
Benefiting the US Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps
Military District of Washington Home Page
Time Service Department - USNO
Master Clock - Precise Time —
Naval Oceanography Portal The official clock on America from the U.S.
Naval Observatory.
WAR DOGS - THE UNTOLD STORY OF DOGS IN
COMBAT
MILITARY FAMILIES
SGT
MOM'S The Internet Site for Military Families
National Military Family Association
MilitaryHOMEFRONT
Home - U.S. Department of Defense
Military-Brats Registry
Submarine Wives Club
Operation Home Front
Service Star
flags (United States)
Gold Star Mother
The Gold Star Mothers of America,
Inc.
Gold Star Wives of America, Inc.
- a military widows organization
Blue Star Mothers of
America, Inc.
SEND A NOTE OF APPRECIATION TO OUR SERVICE MEN & WOMEN
U.S.
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE COMMUNITY RELATIONS
Show Your Support - Show
Your Support - by State
Thank the Troops
Message Form
America
Reaches Out - Messages From The Troops
Operation Interdependence
SUBMARINES
FOR INFO ON SPECIFIC U.S. WARS, CHECK OUT THE FOLLOWING PAGES:
From Colonies to Revolution - for info on the French & Indian War and the American Revolution
19th Century America - for info on the War of 1812, Mexican War, Spanish-American War
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