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This is an attempt to provide a comprehensive order of battle for the US Armed Forces. Please note that this order of battle reflects wartime, operational command and control rather than peacetime administrative command and control. For example, you will find I Corps under US Army Pacific rather than US Army Forces Command. Purely training establishments have not been included.

During the Soviet Coup of 1991 (19 August 1991) also known as the August Putsch, Vodka Putsch or August Coup, a group of members of the Soviet government briefly deposed Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev and attempted to take control of the country. The coup leaders were radical state capitalists who felt that Gorbachev's reform program had gone too far and that a new union treaty that he ha...

While German-speaking peoples have a long history, Germany as a nation-state dates only from 1871. Earlier periods are subject to definition debates. The Franks, for instance, were a union of Germanic tribes, nevetheless some of the Franks later identified themselves as Dutch, Flemish, French and again others as Germans. The capital of medieval ruler Charlemagne's empire was the city of Aachen...

The United States' George Marshall did not intervene to stop the Chinese civil war and there was no arms embargo on the Nationalists. Consequently the Chinese Communists, even with all the weapons of the Manchukuo Army and most of the Japanese Kwantung Army weapons and the increased size of its forces, was defeated in the Northeastern area in China in 1947. The warlords gradually lost powers to...

AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE ORGANIZATION, ADMINISTRATION, TRAINING, MAINTENANCE, AND UTILIZATION OF THE CITIZEN ARMED FORCE OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE PHILIPPINES AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

AN ACT TO SECURE THE STATE AND PROTECT OUR PEOPLE FROM TERRORISM.

MUTUAL DEFENSE TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES The Parties to this Treaty, Reaffirming their faith in the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations and their desire to live in peace with all peoples and all Governments, and desiring to strengthen the fabric of peace in the Pacific Area, Recalling with mutual pride the historic r...

THE martial law era in the Republic of the Philippines is over. President Ferdinand E. Marcos resigned and fled the Philippines on 26 February 1986 after it became apparent that he could no longer maintain power in the face of an irreversible and growing demand among all segments of the Philippine polity that his leading political opponent, Corazon Aquino, be installed as the legitimate winner ...

Combat divisons of Allied and Axis nations during World War II.

AIR FORCE REVIEW Vol 2, No 3 Victory Through Vigilance by LTC ELMER R AMON PAF (GSC) The Air Force is now under a wholly new leadership, with a new Commanding General in Lt Gen Nestor R Santillan AFP, a new Chief of Air Staff in Col Jaime M Viernes PAF, and soon a new Vice Commander. With the top three positions in new hands, it is expected that the whole Air Force is now going to face a new ...

AIR FORCE REVIEW Vol 2, No 2 EDITORIAL Modernizing Our Air Force: A Way to Protect Our People's Freedom By LTCOL ELMER R AMON PAF The protection of our sovereignty and territorial integrity for the continued enjoyment of our cherished ideals of freedom and democracy is the reason for being of the Philippine Air Force. The PAF is ready and willing to defend these ideals and improve the qualit...

AIR FORCE REVIEW Vol 2, No 2 EDITORIAL Flying in the Changing Times Lt Col Jose Tony E Villarete PAF The Philippine Air Force is 54 years old. A wealth of experience and lessons learned for the past 54 years of dedicated and exemplary service to the country and its people provide the PAF with valuable inputs in the formulation and development of doctrines. The preponderance of success storie...

AIR FORCE REVIEW Vol 2, No 1 THE ECONOMICS OF AIR POWER IN EXTERNAL SECURITY LTC ELMER R AMON PAF The security environment in the Asia- Pacific remains volatile and uncertain because of various factors including the overlapping claims in the South China Sea. Most if not all of the six countries claim ownership of part or of the whole Spratly Island Group are relentlessly pursuing their own re...

AIR FORCE REVIEW Vol 1, No 3 COMMANDER'S CORNER Choosing to be Champions Nothing will top the feeling of an Air Force, finally turned fully modern and fully capable and empowered to bring the war to the enemy, day or night. ---LT GENERAL BENJAMIN P DEFENSOR, JR AFP As far as military arts is concern, the international dateline separating the past century and the new millennium may have been...

AIR FORCE REVIEW Vol 1, No 1 TAKING OFF Lt Col Jose Tony E Villarete PAF Director, Office of Special Studies In line with the vision of the Commanding General Philippine Air Force, LTGEN BENJAMIN P DEFENSOR JR AFP, of a faster, stronger and better Philippine Air Force, the Office of Special Studies (OSS) has come up with this new version of PAF doctrine and strategy publication. The Air Forc...

1989: Wipeout - An Ebola virus strain is imported in a group of monkeys. The virus is nonfatal to the primates, but is an airborne version of Ebola Zaire, which is fatal to humans. On November 13th, 1989, workers at the Hazelton Research Products office in Reston, Virginia, are infected with the virus and spread it to the United States and then the world. By December 1st, 1989, some 99% ...

1983: Doomsday postulated the alternative outcome of the Sept. 26, 1983 event, when Colonel Stanislav Petrov was alerted, in error, to a possible US missile strike against the Soviet Union. In OTL (original timeline), Colonel Petrov believed the information to be false and did not alert the Kremlin to the data he was receiving. Given Cold War tensions at the time, such information would lik...

Our long time-honored tradition of excellence will be our guiding path as we aggressively cross the threshold of modernization. The Corps' metamorphosis shall be evident on our troops in the operational area, as the pillars of our modernization shall all congregate to shape the totality of their proficiency and relevance. Our concept of "combined arms" shall be fortified that will further ...

The 4th Marine Brigade (Reserve) was activated as a provisional unit of the Philippine Navy on 22 October 1996 pursuant to Section I General Order No. 229 ONA dated 21 October 1996 during the term of Vice Admiral Pio Carranza AFP as FOIC. PN. It was assigned to the Naval Reserve Command and placed under the operational control of the Commandant, Philippine Marine Corps.

The Field Artillery Battalion (FABN) is the fire support unit of the Combat and Service Support Brigade (CSSB) of the Philippine Marine Corps (PMC). It is tasked to provide artillery fire support for the operating units of the PMC. The Battalion is capable of providing artillery fire support under different combat conditions, as well as to provide ground and reinforcing artillery fire support...