Ghost soldiers or ghost battalions refers to absentee army troops whose names appear on military rolls, but who are not actually in military service,...
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Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission (Doubleday, 2001) is a non-fiction book written by Hampton Sides. It is about...
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Ghost soldier may refer to: Ghost soldiers, people whose names appear on military rolls, but are not in military service, generally used to divert salaries...
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to draw German troops away from the actual sites.[citation needed] Ghost soldiers were encouraged to use their brains and talent to mislead, deceive,...
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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier is a third-person tactical shooter video game developed and published by Ubisoft for the PlayStation 3, Xbox...
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Hampton Sides (section Ghost Soldiers)
author and journalist. He is the author of Hellhound on His Trail, Ghost Soldiers, Blood and Thunder, On Desperate Ground, and other bestselling works...
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highly classified. In Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, it is shown that the Ghost's unit has multiple designations and is part of JSOC; they...
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No-show job (redirect from Ghost employee)
proving tax evasion in such cases can be difficult. Featherbedding Ghost soldiers Ñoqui nonjob Sinecure White monkey William K. Rashbaum, Once Again,...
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2021 Taliban offensive (section Ghost soldiers)
extorting locals, military officers funding themselves by inventing ghost soldiers and the months of unpaid ANSF salaries that followed the April 2021...
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The Ghost Dance (Caddo: Nanissáanah, also called the Ghost Dance of 1890) is a ceremony incorporated into numerous Native American belief systems. According...
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Afghan Army (redirect from Afghan soldiers)
significant portion of the Afghan National Army manpower were made up of ghost soldiers. Following the withdrawal of U.S. and allied troops from Afghanistan...
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interest in ghosts and Gettysburg remains to the present day. In recent times, people have claimed to have seen ghost soldiers, and sometimes even ghost battles...
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Bogatyrev. In 1941, a detachment of Soviet soldiers, including a lone-wolf fighter called the "Red Ghost", come up against an elite death squad within...
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sequels. Ghost Recon puts the player in charge of the eponymous Ghosts, a fictional squad of United States Special Operations Forces soldiers from Delta...
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much lower due to ghost soldiers, severely reducing combat ability. After six days of combat and massive desertions, Iraqi soldiers received orders to...
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Abadi announced that 50,000 "ghost soldiers" had been identified and would be removed from army payrolls. "Ghost soldiers" were men on army payrolls who...
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Electoral fraud (redirect from Ghost voter)
allowed, but politicians may rig voting buttons or otherwise illegally cast "ghost votes" while absent. The three main strategies for the prevention of electoral...
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Mozambique Defence Armed Forces (redirect from Mozambican soldier)
February 2020 at the Wayback Machine - details in 1976 "7000 ghost soldiers found. Soldiers have been paid in cash, and in March actually had to show up...
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Palawan massacre (redirect from Massacre of American soldiers at Palawan)
Philippine province of Palawan. Allied soldiers, imprisoned near the city, were killed by Imperial Japanese soldiers. Only eleven men managed to survive...
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Ghost Rider is the name of multiple superheroes or antiheroes appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Marvel had previously used...
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Inc. ISBN 978-1-4327-7555-1. OCLC 782073328. Sides, Hampton (2001). Ghost Soldiers. New York: Anchor Books. ISBN 978-1-299-07651-8. OCLC 842990576. Stephens...
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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands is a third-person tactical shooter video game developed by Ubisoft Paris and Ubisoft Milan, and published by Ubisoft...
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A ghost town, deserted city, extinct town, or abandoned city is an abandoned settlement, usually one that contains substantial visible remaining buildings...
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The Ghost of Kyiv (Ukrainian: Привид Києва, romanized: Pryvyd Kyieva, pronounced [ˈprɪʋɪd ˈkɪjeʋɐ]) is the nickname given to a mythical MiG-29 Fulcrum...
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of American soldiers fighting on the ground in the Vietnam War. His third book about the war, it is based upon his experiences as a soldier in the 23rd...
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towers. At its peak, the camp held 8,000 American soldiers (along with a small number of soldiers and civilians from other nations including the United...
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The Invisible Detective (redirect from Ghost Soldiers (Justin Richards novel))
7-year-old brother, Paul. She is very headstrong, somewhat like Meg. In Ghost Soldiers, Sarah is revealed to be behind a series of modern websites dedicated...
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Elaine M. Alphin (section Ghosts)
Several of Alphin's novels are ghost stories. Two, Ghost Cadet and Ghost Soldier, deal with ghosts of child-soldiers from the American Civil War who...
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also titled Soldier of Fortune, featuring Brandon Lee and Ernest Borgnine Soldiers of Fortune (1919 film), a lost American silent drama Soldiers of Fortune...
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reprint). ISBN 978-1120909152. Brinkmeyer, Robert H. (2009). The fourth ghost: white Southern writers and European fascism, 1930-1950. Baton Rouge: Louisiana...
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