Introduction National Command Authority (NCA) is a term that was used by the Department of Defence of the United States of America to refer to the ultimate source of lawful military orders. Refer to DEFCON. Background The NCA was first alluded to in a 1960 Department of Defence document. It included at least the president… Read More
Introduction The Mission Accomplished speech (named for a banner displayed above the speaker) was a televised address by United States President George W. Bush on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln on 01 May 2003. Although Bush stated at the time “Our mission continues” and “We have difficult work to do in Iraq,” he also… Read More
“The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.” Theodore Roosevelt (1858 to 1919) Theodore Roosevelt, bynames Teddy Roosevelt and TR, was the 26th president of the United States (1901-1909) and… Read More
02 December 1823: US president James Monroe issued the Monroe Doctrine, a proclamation of opposition to European colonialism in the New World. 02 December 1852: Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte established the Second French Empire, declaring himself Emperor of the French as Napoleon III. 02 December 1950: Korean War: With the conclusion of the Battle of the Ch’ongch’on… Read More
“Honor to the soldier, and Sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country’s cause, Honor also to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field, and serves, ashe best can, the same cause – honor to him, only less than to him, who braves, for the common good, the storm of heaven and the… Read More
“I have asked General Westmoreland what he needs to meet his mounting aggression. He has told me. And we will meet his needs… We will stand in Vietnam.” Lyndon B. Johnson (1908 to 1973) Lyndon Baines Johnson, also called LBJ, was the 36th president of the United States (1963-69). A moderate Democrat and vigorous leader… Read More
“The bastards have never been bombed like they’re going to be bombed this time.” Richard Nixon (1913 to 1994), during the 1972 North Vietnamese Easter Offensive Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th president of the United States (1969-74), who, faced with almost certain impeachment for his role in the Watergate scandal, became the first American… Read More
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