According to one Japanese journalist embedded with Imperial forces at the time, " The reason that the Army is advancing to Nanking quite rapidly is due to the tacit consent among the officers and men that they could loot and rape as they wish.

According to one source, Tang placed the 35th and 72nd divisions at the port to prevent people from fleeing Nanking in accordance with instructions from Chiang Kai-shek's general headquarters at Wuhan.

According to the Department of Defense, the " Order of Titus award is the only award presented by the Chief of Chaplains to recognize outstanding performance of ministry by chaplains and chaplain assistants.

According to Puglisi, in the post-1960 period the Times displays a more symmetric type of watchdog behaviour, just because during presidential campaigns it also gives more coverage to the typically Republican issue of Defense when the incumbent President is a Democrat, and less so when the incumbent is a Republican.

According to the U. S. Defense Department, the video was seized from the compound during the May 2011 operation by US special forces in which bin Laden was killed.

According to the standard reference text on nuclear weapons effects published by the U. S. Department of Defense, " The peak electric field ( and its amplitude ) at the Earth's surface from a high-altitude burst will depend upon the explosion yield, the height of the burst, the location of the observer, and the orientation with respect to the geomagnetic field.

According to the DoD the MIL-STD-188 – 300 Series contains “ communications system standards and design objectives applicable to the field of long haul and point-to – point communications in support of the Defense Communications System ( DCS ) and the National Military Command System ( NMCS ), and also to provide the necessary interface with non-DCS equipment .”

According to Homeland security research, the U. S. federal Homeland Security and Homeland Defense includes 187 federal agencies and departments, including the United States National Guard, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the United States Coast Guard, Customs and Border Protection, U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, the United States Secret Service, the Transportation Security Administration, the 14 agencies that constitute the U. S. intelligence community and Civil Air Patrol.

According to the U. S. Office of Management and Budget and Homeland Security Research Corporation, DHS Homeland security funding constitutes only 20-21 % of the consolidated U. S. Homeland Security-Homeland Defense funding, while approximately 40 % of the DHS budget funds civil, non-security activities, such as the U. S. coast guard search and rescue operations and customs functions.

According to its architect, Secretary of Defense Harold Brown, " countervailing strategy " stressed that the planned response to a Soviet attack was no longer to bomb Russian population centers and cities primarily, but first to kill the Soviet leadership, then attack military targets, in the hope of a Russian surrender before total destruction of the USSR ( and the United States ).

According to a Defense Prisoner of War / Missing Personnel Office ( DPMO ) white paper, 1, 394 names were also transmitted during " Operation Glory " from the Chinese and North Koreans, of which 858 proved to be correct.

According to 10 USC 980, the United States Code for the Armed Forces, Limitations on the Use of Humans as Experimental Subjects, a waiver of advanced informed consent may be granted by the Secretary of Defense if a research project would:

According to Ben Rich ’ s memoir, an engineer showed up to work one day wearing a Civil Defense gas mask as a gag.

According to an official U. S. military report, a U. S. naval officer and his wife who were witnesses to the incident were assaulted by Panamanian Defense Force soldiers while in police custody.

According to the former Time correspondent to Jerusalem, Donald Neff, the decisive calculation was as follows: Force had to be used to demonstrate to the Arabs that Israel was in the Middle East to stay, Ben Gurion believed, and to that end he felt strongly that his retaliatory policy had to be continued. Defense Minister Pinhas Lavon gave the order, in coordination with Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion.

According to Joint Publication 1-02, the United States Department of Defense defines a resistance movement as " an organized effort by some portion of the civil population of a country to resist the legally established government or an occupying power and to disrupt civil order and stability ".

According to a 2011 Air Force Presentation Arlington will host a future United States Department of Defense unmanned aerial vehicle base.

According to public statements made by U. S. government officials the President of the United States or the Secretary of Defense must approve any pre-planned ISAF strike where 1 civilian casualty or greater is expected.

According to U. S. Air Force Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, Copies of Lt. Col. Halt's letter regarding the sighting at RAF Woodbridge ( see above ) to the U. K. Ministry of Defense were routinely released ( without addition comment ) by the American base public affairs staff throughout the 1980s until the base closed.

According to a 1999 report from the U. S. Defense Intelligence Agency, the normally mild-mannered Taha exploded into violent rages whenever UNSCOM questioned her about al-Hakam, shouting, screaming and, on one occasion, smashing a chair, while insisting that al-Hakam was a chicken-feed plant.

However, in 1950, when the United States entered the Korean War, Secretary of Defense George Marshall and Secretary of the Navy Francis P. Matthews requested that the USO be reactivated " to provide support for the men and women of the armed forces with help of the American people " According to war historian Paul Edwards, Between 1952 and 1953, not a day went by without the USO providing services somewhere in Korea.

Here are a few examples of over consumption in the United States ; According to Environmental Defense, “ Americans own 30 % of the world ’ s vehicles, but emit nearly half of the world ’ s vehicle CO2 emissions.

" According to an unnamed Pentagon source quoted by Hersh, the OSP " was created in order to find evidence of what Wolfowitz and his boss, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, believed to be true — that Saddam Hussein had close ties to Al Qaeda, and that Iraq had an enormous arsenal of chemical, biological, and possibly even nuclear weapons that threatened the region and, potentially, the United States.

According to government archives, this six-month military operation was planned and carried out in secret ; the only people informed were the President Vicente Fox, the Secretary of Defense in Mexico, Ricardo Clemente Vega García, and Mexico's Attorney General, Rafael Macedo de la Concha.

According to Department of Defense personnel with whom Arkin spoke, Central Command chief Anthony Zinni insisted that the U. S. only attack biological and chemical sites that " had been identified with a high degree of certainty.

According to the licensing service for a private carry permit, a permit may be issued to a legal resident over the age of 21, that is working or living in dangerous zones defined by the Ministry ; an individual who works in specific professions listed by the Ministry or individuals who served in the Israeli Defense Force or other military agencies, at the rank of Captain or equivalent ( currently serving in the standing army or reserves ), retired officers at a rank of Lt.

According to the E. J. Erickson the Greek Navy also played a crucial, albeit indirect role, in the Thracian campaign by neutralizing no less than three Thracian Corps ( see First Balkan War, the Bulgarian theater of operations ), a significant portion of the Ottoman Army there, in the all-important opening round of the war.

According to a 1965 deposition by Fausto Rodriguez, the Cuba Libre was first mixed at a Cuban bar in August 1900 by a member of the U. S. Signal Corps, referred to as " John Doe ".

According to a regimental history compiled in 1879 by a captain in the Kings Royal Rifle Corps, in November 1755 Parliament voted the sum of £ 81, 000 for the purpose of raising a regiment of four battalions, each one thousand strong for service in British North America.

" According to the U. S. State Department report and reports by Human Rights Watch, the other Pakistani nationals fighting in Afghanistan were regular Pakistani soldiers especially from the Frontier Corps but also from the army providing direct combat support.

According to a press report in 2003, Adair was handed details of republican suspects by the Intelligence Corps, and was even invited for dinner with them in the early 1990s.

According to Captain Marbot the Emperor told Marshal Augereau that he disliked night fighting, that he wanted to wait until the morning so that he could count on Davout's Corps to come up on the right wing and Ney's on the left, and that the high ground before Eylau was a good, easily defensible position on which to wait for reinforcements.

According to this author, the Russian Corps had around 3, 500 men, killed, wounded or missing and also lost 15 cannons and 10 flags.

According to the plans, the Polish Army was supposed to attack Russian Infantry Corps of the Tsar's Guard, which camped at the territory between Augustów and Ostrołęka.

According to the United States Navy “ the 36-day ( Iwo Jima ) assault resulted in more than 26, 000 American casualties, including 6, 800 dead .” To put that into context, the 82-day Battle of Okinawa lasted from early April until mid-June 1945 and U. S. ( 5 Army and 2 Marine Corps Divisions ) casualties were over 62, 000 of whom over 12, 000 were killed or missing, while the Battle of the Bulge lasted 40 days ( 16 Dec 44 – 25 Jan 45 ) with almost 90, 000 U. S. casualties of ; 19, 000 killed, 47, 500 wounded, and 23, 000 captured or missing.

According to the Army Times, the Army is shifting its doctrine to favour ground-attack aircraft over attack helicopters for deep strike attack missions because ground-attack helicopters have proved to be highly vulnerable to small-arms fire ; the U. S. Marine Corps has noted similar problems.

According to gayaameen from the Darraji tribe of samarra, a few hours prior to the first bombing that occurred, ICDC troops ( Iraqi Civil Defence Corps ) accompanied by coalition troops, temporarily relieved the gayaameen of their duty.

According to Business Wire, this contract will be executed in cooperation with the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District.

According to Maj. Robert Peaty, of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, who was the senior British officer at Mukden, a prisoner-of-war camp 350 miles from Pingfan, doctors from Unit 731 administered the regular injections of infectious diseases, disguised as harmless vaccinations, which eventually killed 186 Americans.

According to von Manstein, the Army Group headquarters was forced to intervene on a number of occasions to bring the SS Panzer Corps to swing eastwards to encircle the city, instead of launching a frontal attack on Kharkov.

According to the Marine Corps Deputy Commandant for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, Mr. Blair was " a member of the US Navy was interned from 3 December 1946 to 15 January 1947 by Chinese guerilla forces.

According to the head of the Marine Corps Awards Branch, " The law governing the Prisoner of War ( POW ) Medal was amended in 1989.

According to the 2012 Military Pay Table effective 1 January 2012, While serving as Chairman, Joint Chief of Staff / Vice Chairman, Joint Chief of Staff, Chief of Navy Operations, Commandant of the Marine Corps, Army / Air Force Chief of Staff, Commander of a unified or specified combatant command, basic pay is $ 20, 587. 80 a month plus additional allowances / pay.

According to the Marine Corps Times, the 20 June 2003 activation of the Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command, which began with Detachment One, paid homage to the Marine Raiders.

According to the League of Conservation Voters, a political advocacy organization, analyses for Corps projects " have been manipulated to favor large-scale projects that harm the environment.

According to United States Marine Corps historian Major Chuck Melson, the term originated in the American Civil War, when it meant a hastily-dug foxhole.

According to official U. S. statistics, 70 percent of the U. S. Navy and all the Marine Corps were deployed in the Pacific.

According to historian and Israeli Army and U. S. Marine Corps veteran Bryan Mark Rigg, up to 160, 000 one-quarter, one-half, and even full Jewish men served in the German armed forces during World War II, including several generals and at least one field marshal, Erhard Milch.

According to Lieutenant General George J. Flynn of the Marine Corps Combat Development Command, the USMC will use funding from the cancelled EFV for other tactical ground vehicles over the next five years.