The raid at Cabanatuan was the product of a failed campaign to protect the Philippines from Japanese control in 1941-42‚ which resulted in the capture of over 550 American and allied POWs. The capture of the Philippines was essential to Japan‚ who would be able to use it as a resupply point‚ as well as eliminating the natural barrier that existed between them and China. The raid was organized three years later in an effort to release the POWS and further the mission of the Allies reclaiming the Philippines
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RAID is a data storage technology that combines multiple disk drive components into a logical unit for the purposes of data redundancy and performance improvement.[1] Data is distributed across the drives in one of several ways‚ referred to as RAID levels‚ depending on the specific level of redundancy and performance required. The term "RAID" was first used by David Patterson‚ Garth A. Gibson‚ and Randy Katz at the University of California‚ Berkeley in 1987‚ standing for redundant array of inexpensive
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Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid provoked more rage when the true intentions of the Union were revealed via the Dahlgren Papers. Proposed by Brigadier General Judson Kilpatrick and approved by the President Abraham Lincoln and his Secretary of War‚ Edwin Stanton‚ the raid’s purpose was to liberate approximately 12‚000 Union prisoners held captive in Richmond and in a prison camp on Belle Island on the James River. The raid was initiated on the evening of February.28‚1864 and ended on March.3‚1864. During the raid‚ complications
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ships‚ 50‚000 vehicles and 11‚000 planes all in preparation for the coming battle the next day. With the help of the Canadians‚ British commandos and American rangers‚ they decide to bind together their military forces and take their plans into action when they surprised attack Germany at Dieppe‚ France. The goal was to attack a strongly defended port in Dieppe‚ guarded by top-notch and highly trained German soldiers. The Raid being Canada’s first involvement in World War II‚ not only did they intend
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In their articles on the Dieppe Raid‚ both Peter Henshaw and Brian Villa go to extreme lengths to recount the events that led up to the raid and the facts of how the raid played out. In his article “Unauthorized Action: Mountbatten and the Dieppe Raid”‚ Villa provides a very accurate recount of the events of the raid. However Henshaw’s article “The Dieppe Raid: A Product of Misplaced Canadian Nationalism?” goes a step further to reveal the pre-raid planning process and the chain of events that
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substantially shaped the Canadian identity as a country that strives to fight in war‚ because of the previous disasters at Dieppe‚ the courageous acts of Canadian soldiers‚ and the deceitful strategy to success. Firstly‚ the devastating failure of the Dieppe Raid in 1942 established Canada as a serious fighting force in war situations. Canadians learned that tanks were vulnerable to the Germans‚ as they easily hindered them by setting various traps on the beach. Air and naval bombings became more essential
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While reading “Harriet Tubman and the Raid at Combahee Ferry”‚ I realized several key factors. First off‚ the raid by the Union solders was such a huge success that it’s tactics were mimicked for multiple operations. Another feature to be recognized is that this raid was highly successful due to the fact that it was led by Harriet Tubman‚ the only escaped‚ woman slave to have conducted such a brilliant military operation throughout American history. The raid at Combahee Ferry proved the usefulness
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the techniques for battle analysis to the Battle of Mogadishu enables a comprehensive understanding of the conflict‚ to identify a method through which the proper use of intelligence assets could have changed the outcome. The Battle of Mogadishu might have been avoided altogether‚ had the employment of Army counterintelligence (CI) assets been properly utilized‚ resulting in a successful outcome for the Operation Restore Hope humanitarian mission in Somalia. Battle Analysis Step 1: Define the Subject/Evaluate
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201.117 Assignment 1 3.) Discuss three major battles of Alexander the Great with reference to the sources supplied and in their wider and political and military context. To what factors would you attribute his success? -1- A military commander ’s success on the battlefield is not always solely determined by his (or her) own brilliance. Victory is often due to his opponent ’s circumstances‚ both in the military and strategic context‚ not to mention the political situation‚ and even cultural
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What is RAID? Although also a bug-killing insecticide‚ RAID in dedicated server hosting terms stands for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (also known as Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Drives or Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks/Drives) and is an important aspect of your dedicated server hosting plan. Especially if you are running a large‚ data-driven website that requires a larger disk or hard drive storage space than normal‚ you can use RAID technology to combine multiple hard drives
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