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I am quite confident that in the foreseeable future armed conflict will not take the form of huge land armies facing each other across extended battle lines, as they did in World War I and World War II or, for that matter, as they would have if NATO had faced the Warsaw Pact on the field of battle.

- General H. Norman Schwartzkopf

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Today in Military History

October 30



1917:

VC won by Lt Hugh MacKenzie, DCM, 7th Canadian Machine Gun Company, CEF, Passchendaele, Belgium (posthumous)


1917:

VC won by Maj George Randolph Pearkes, 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles Battalion, CEF, Passchendaele, Belgium


1917:

VC won by Pte Cecil John Kinross, 49th Battalion, CEF, Passchendaele, Belgium


1917:

VC won by Sgt George Harry Mullin, MM, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, CEF, Passchendaele, Belgium




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