RC Marine 2004-01 Hors Serie 01

Quand il découvrit le moyen de faire exploser une charge en dessous de la surface, David Bushnell s'intéressa à l'étude d'un système grâce auquel il pourrait acheminer cette future mine aux abords directs d'un navire ennemi. Il dessina les plans d'une drôle de machine susceptible de naviguer sous l'eau et qualifiée par certains de "bricolage". Après de nombreux calculs et diverses mises au point, ce jeune et brillant mathématicien réussit à construire son engin que l'on baptisa American Turtle ou plus simplement Tortue. Cette denomination était due à sa forme qui évoquait l'assemblage de deux carapaces de tortue accolées, ou peut-être, pourquoi pas, à la vitesse réduite à laquelle il se mouvait. L'invention fut entourée du plus grand secret et à l'automne 1775, Bushnell transporta son engin sur les berges de la rivière Connecticut, près de Lyme, pour effectuer les premiers essais. Le petit bâtiment était construit en bordés de chêne, fort semblable aux douves d'une barrique, et cerclé de bandes de cuivre. Il était lesté par une quille en plomb pesant près de 300 kilos dont un élément de 90 kilos pouvait être largué en cas d'urgence.

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Military Review 01-02 2011

ON 16 SEPTEMBER 2009, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) won a landslide victory in national parliamentary elections. For the first time since its founding in 1996, the DP J was asked to form a government, having displaced the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) as the governing party for only the second time since the LDP was formed in 1955 (the first time, in 1993, the LDP was out of power for only nine months). After the DPJ's victory, much ink was spilled proclaiming, or at least musing about, imminent, significant, even strategic changes to the U.S.-Japan relationship. Much of the controversy surrounded an agreement between the United States and Japan to remove Marine Coips Air Station (MCAS) Futenma from its current location in the middle of a crowded urban area in the southern part of the island of Okinawa. In 2006, after years of negotiations, the United States and Japanese governments agreed to replace the MCAS with a new and smaller facility on Camp Schwab, another Marine Coips facility in the northern, less crowded part of Okinawa. Nine months after the DPJ's landslide, the party's first prime minister, Hatoyama Yukio, resigned, largely over a contretemps surrounding the Futenma issue.

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Warrior - A Visual History of the Fighting Man

My intention in writing this book has been to focus not upon wars, campaigns, and battles in themselves, but squarely upon the lives of the men who, through the length of human history have fought them. Why did they become fighting men? How were they recruited and trained? How were they armed and fed and paid? What did they carry in their packs? How did they survive when 011 campaign? And how did they cope with that climactic experience of combat? In the sweep of history covered by this book, certain principles of military life recur. The need for physical endurance and courage is a given, for it is hard to imagine any military training or campaigning that would not require these qualities. But the experience of comradeship-in-arms is equally omnipresent. A Mongol horseman, one of Wellington s or Napoleon's foot soldiers, a Japanese samurai, and a Viet Cong peasant guerrilla would have very little in common at most levels, but all will have bonded to some degree in a band of brothers, forged in the white heat of the traumatizing, exhilarating experience of combat. Yet this said, there can be no pretence of discovering a single character of the warrior or fighting man.

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