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# General Westmoreland
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The Crazy Plan to Stop Earth’s Rotation and Other Bonkers Schemes
History has had plenty of crazy moments. However, few were nuttier than that one time when American Cold War planners researched the possibility of stopping the Earth’s rotation. The reason? It would…
American History
FRACTURE JAW: The Plan to Nuke North Vietnam
1968 was a bad year for the American war effort in Vietnam, and for general William Westmoreland, the overall US…
General
This Day In History: The US Begins A New Offensive In Vietnam (1966)
On this day in the Vietnam War, the U.S. army begins a new offensive, codenamed Operation Attleboro. This was an…