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MilitaryWeek.com
''MilitaryWeek.com'' (or ''MilitaryWeek'') is an English-language, web-based, weekly anthology of global military affairs. ''MilitaryWeek.com'' was founded and is published by LeRoy Woodson, a former staff-writer and editor with ''National Geographic'' magazine and '' The Washington Post''. It was closed down in 2007 due to financial problems. "We are living in times of unparalleled threat and hostility from unseen and often unknown enemies", Woodson states on the ''MilitaryWeek.com'' website; "The tendency of governments facing this situation is to turn inward, to sit on information as they try to formulate a strategy to meet this daunting challenge. It is the objective of the MW staff to harness the power of the internet — permitting global English-language media to speak with one, collective voice on just one topic: conflict. We pluck sometimes vital information from remote regions mired in conflict". ''MilitaryWeek.com'' provides news links from the various global media, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LeRoy Woodson
LeRoy Woodson Jr. (1944 – February 12, 2015) was an American photojournalist. He was a staff writer and editor for ''National Geographic'' magazine in the 1970s and 1980s. He worked for many newspapers and magazines, including '' The Washington Post'', '' LIFE'', ''Fortune'', and '' Forbes''. Woodson was employed by the Environmental Protection Agency for their Documerica photography project. He has works in the collection of the Studio Museum in Harlem, wrote the book ''Roadside Food'', and founded the website MilitaryWeek.com. Early life and education LeRoy Woodson was born in California in 1944. He was the son of a United States Foreign Service officer and grew up in France where he was educated at École Pascal. After returning to the United States, he graduated from Florida A&M University High School in Tallahassee, Florida, in 1962. He earned a degree in French from the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 1966. Career Based out of Washington, D.C., for much of hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karen Kwiatkowski
Karen U. Kwiatkowski, née Unger, (born September 24, 1960) is an American activist and commentator. She is a retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel whose assignments included duties as a Pentagon desk officer and a variety of roles for the National Security Agency. Since retiring, she has become a noted critic of the U.S. government's involvement in Iraq. Kwiatkowski is primarily known for her insider essays which denounce a corrupting political influence on the course of military intelligence leading up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. In 2012, she challenged incumbent Bob Goodlatte, in the Republican primary for Virginia's 6th congressional district seat in the United States House of Representatives and garnered 34% of the Republican vote on a constitutional and limited government platform. While in the Air Force, she wrote two books about U.S. policy towards Africa: ''African Crisis Response Initiative: Past Present and Future'' ( US Army Peacekeeping Institute, 2000) and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Geographic (magazine)
''National Geographic'' (formerly the ''National Geographic Magazine'', sometimes branded as NAT GEO) is a popular American monthly magazine published by National Geographic Partners. Known for its photojournalism, it is one of the most widely read magazines of all time. The magazine was founded in 1888 as a scholarly journal, nine months after the establishment of the society, but is now a popular magazine. In 1905, it began including pictures, a style for which it became well-known. Its first color photos appeared in the 1910s. During the Cold War, the magazine committed itself to present a balanced view of the physical and human geography of countries beyond the Iron Curtain. Later, the magazine became outspoken on environmental issues. Since 2019, controlling interest has been held by The Walt Disney Company. Topics of features generally concern geography, history, nature, science, and world culture. The magazine is well known for its distinctive appearance: a thick squa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Washington Post
''The Washington Post'' (also known as the ''Post'' and, informally, ''WaPo'') is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper within the Washington metropolitan area and has a large national audience. Daily broadsheet editions are printed for D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. The ''Post'' was founded in 1877. In its early years, it went through several owners and struggled both financially and editorially. Financier Eugene Meyer purchased it out of bankruptcy in 1933 and revived its health and reputation, work continued by his successors Katharine and Phil Graham (Meyer's daughter and son-in-law), who bought out several rival publications. The ''Post'' 1971 printing of the Pentagon Papers helped spur opposition to the Vietnam War. Subsequently, in the best-known episode in the newspaper's history, reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein led the American press's investigation into what became known as the Watergate scandal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janine Di Giovanni
Janine di Giovanni is an author, journalist, and war correspondent currently serving as the Executive Director of The Reckoning Project. She is a senior fellow at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, a non-resident Fellow at The New America Foundation and the Geneva Center for Security Policy in International Security and a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She was named a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow, and in 2020, the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded her the Blake-Dodd nonfiction prize for her lifetime body of work. She has contributed to ''The Times'', '' Vanity Fair'', ''Granta'', ''The New York Times'', and ''The Guardian''. Early life Di Giovanni is the seventh child of an Italian-born father and a mother from an Italian-American family. She was raised in New Jersey. Originally she wanted to become a humanitarian doctor in Africa, but initially embarked on an academic career. Di Giovanni attended the University of Maine, where she maj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
