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With an executive order from President Franklin Roosevelt in 1941, the United States Marine Corps - the last all-white branch of the U.S. military - was forced to begin recruiting and enlisting African Americans. The first black recruits received basic training at the segregated Camp Montford Point, adjacent to Camp Lejeune, near Jacksonville, North Carolina.

On October 23, 1983, a truck bomb destroyed the US Marines barracks in Beirut. Two hundred and forty-one Americans were killed in the worst terrorist attack our nation would suffer until 9/11. We're still feeling the repercussions today. When Reagan Sent In the Marines tells why the Marines were there, how their mission became confused and compromised, and how President Ronald Reagan used another misguided military venture to distract America from the attack and his many mistakes leading up to it.

Joe Owen tells it like it was in this evocative story of a marine rifle company in the uncertain, early days of the Korean War. His powerful description of close combat in the snow-covered mountains of the Chosin Reservoir and of the survival spirit of his Marines provide a gritty real-life view of frontline warfare.As a lieutenant who was with them from first muster in California, Owen was in a unique position to see the hastily assembled mix of some 200 regulars and raw reservists harden into a superb Marine rifle company. The action and narrative move fast as the company learns to fight under enemy fire, eat frozen rations, and keep pushing forward when its wounded and dead go down.

La guerra di Erdogan: Erdogan lancia l'offensiva in Siria contro i curdi. Ma Trump dice no, di Marco Ansaldo; La minaccia di Erdogan, di Marco Ansaldo; Erdogan e i curdi in Siria: che cosa possiamo fare, di Michele Serra; Siria, centinaia di vittime. La grande fuga dei civili dalle bombe di Erdogan, di Marco Ansaldo; Ma l'arsenale di Erdogan è già completo, di Gianluca Di Feo.

L'Iran, il Boeing abbattuto e la scommessa di Trump: Nella base degli italiani attaccata da Teheran: "La missione va avanti", di Fabio Tonacci; Satelliti, rottami e scatole nere: l'aereo ucraino e l'ipotesi missile, di Rosalba Castelletti; E per ora Donald vince la scommessa con gli ayatollah, di Federico Rampini; Dalle milizie ai missili, perché tra Iran e USA il conflitto non è finito; di Bernardo Valli; Crisi Stati Uniti-Iran, Teheran e il sogno della nuova Persia, di Gad Lerner.