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To be sure, the field marshal was not directly responsible for all the excesses of Egypt’s latest leadership transition -- including the more than 1,000 who have died, the many thousands who have been injured, and the 1,212 sentenced to death.
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Steven A. Cook, Foreign Affairs, 8 June 2014
Alex Cooper has sold a letter from George Washington as well as a World War II-era field marshal baton that fetched more than $700,000 in 2010.
—Tony Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 8 Mar. 2024
Prince Philip was by his wife’s side for her Scottish coronation celebration and wore a field marshal's uniform.
—Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 5 July 2023
This doctrine, developed in the 1950s by military innovators such as the British field marshal Gerald Templer in Malaya and the U.S. operative Edward Lansdale in the Philippines, holds that a military can’t defeat an insurgency by simply killing insurgents.
—Max Boot, Foreign Affairs, 2 June 2021
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Steven A. Cook, Foreign Affairs, 8 June 2014
Alex Cooper has sold a letter from George Washington as well as a World War II-era field marshal baton that fetched more than $700,000 in 2010.
—Tony Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 8 Mar. 2024
Prince Philip was by his wife’s side for her Scottish coronation celebration and wore a field marshal's uniform.
—Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 5 July 2023
This doctrine, developed in the 1950s by military innovators such as the British field marshal Gerald Templer in Malaya and the U.S. operative Edward Lansdale in the Philippines, holds that a military can’t defeat an insurgency by simply killing insurgents.
—Max Boot, Foreign Affairs, 2 June 2021
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“Field marshal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/field%20marshal. Accessed 1 Oct. 2024.
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