Author: Michael

Hailing from a small north Texas town, Charley Paddock grew up to become an Olympic gold medalist. Between serving in both world wars, Paddock worked as a newspaper executive. Those communications skills benefited him when he became an aide and public relations officer to Marine Corps Maj. Gen. William Upshur during World War II.
Upshur never achieved Olympic glory, but he achieved something much more valorous. The highlight of his four-decade military career came in 1915, when he was awarded the Medal of Honor during the Haitian Campaign.

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When journalists or policy experts fretfully discuss arms racing and military buildups in the Indo-Pacific, they tend to focus on Northeast Asian autocracies rather than Southeast Asian democracies. And yet Indonesia, a historically non-aligned nation with no recent history of great-power war, is currently engaged in a process of unprecedented military expansion. If fully realized, this sweeping set of reforms will grow its total active-duty personnel to over 1.2 million in just five years.

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