
The French ordered the first six Nieuport 14s in November 1915 and they began to enter service in the spring of 1916. The original plan appears to have been to use the new aircraft as a bomber, and three escadrilles received the new aircraft, replacing their existing Voisins. This was a short-lived plan and after only eighteen days the escadrilles converted to the Nieuport 17 and became fighter units. The Nieuport 14s spent the rest of their service split between a large number of units.
By the end of 1916 twenty were in service, and the same number of aircraft were still in use in August 1917, but they were withdrawn from the front line that autumn and sent to training schools.
There they joined a number of Nieuport 14 École models that had been produced in 1916. These had the wings and rear fuselage of the standard aircraft, but with a new nose housing a 80hp Le Rhône engine. These aircraft also had a second set of wheels in front of the main wheels to prevent novice pilots from overturning the aircraft. They were originally built with one set of controls but later converted to dual controls. The Nieuport 14 École later became the basis of the Nieuport 82 trainer. The larger Nieuport 15 bomber was also based on the Nieuport 14.
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It is apropos to post again what belongs here.
Mostly, the consummation of a ritual is wrought by one who is overtaken by a divine frenzy -- a creative madness, if you like -- and it is in that state of divine ecstasy, as it were, that certain miracles are wrought.
In the face of certain calamities, certain primitive communities look forward to a god-man's moment of (recurring) ecstasy so that they can have their dilemmas resolved.
honey-dew hath fedAnd drunk the milk of Paradise.
It is only after the lessons have been taught and learnt that the task of restoring the lands is undertaken.
Well, just a reading.
bearing on what has transpired in the course of the poem.
“plan” for the entire poem, is demonstrable, and Eliot himself expressed “regret [for] having sent so many enquirers off on a wild goose chase” after his sources (1957: 110). The fact remains, though, that Eliot’s use of symbolism drawn from Frazer and other anthropological sources is already visible in the poems, such as “Sweeney among the Nightingales” and “Gerontion,” that precede his composition of The Waste Land. Such material was thoroughly enmeshed in Eliot’s thought and perception, and it is integral to the themes and methods of The Waste Land as well (Crawford 1987: 127–49).
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Why Did the Pentagon Agree to the Withdrawal From Afghanistan?
During the Trump administration, the Pentagon vociferously opposed President Donald Trump’s plans to pull out of Afghanistan and Syria. Under the Biden administration, the Pentagon didn’t oppose President Joe Biden’s early withdrawal.
Instead, the Pentagon, apparently confidently, arranged to pull out U.S. personnel and some Afghans associated with the U.S. mission in the country.
Why did the Pentagon change direction? While the secretary of defense had changed (twice since the Trump-era interventions) and the new defense secretary was a Biden man, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was the same man, and any defense secretary, even one who was a general before, would need to consult with the Joint Chiefs and other commanders, especially Central Command (CENTCOM), which has responsibility for both Afghanistan and the Middle East.
Assuming consultations took place, it would appear that the Pentagon brass was satisfied that the Biden administration had worked out a solid plan to leave Afghanistan.
It’s clear that pulling troops from a conflict zone has major strategic implications for U.S. force posture abroad and for U.S. relationships with allies and friends around the world.
It’s quite true that, after 20 years, the U.S. effort in Afghanistan had stalled. The small number of American troops still in that country were mainly providing training services, plus organizing contractor support and supplying intelligence to the Afghan military. The most important service of all, close air support, was the single commodity that equalized the fighting with the Taliban, which after all was an insurgency, not an opposing field army.
It’s also true that there was a consensus in Washington that the Afghan government was corrupt up to its armpits, and there was little hope for any improvement. That made it difficult for Washington to keep pouring billions into a government that was siphoning off millions of aid dollars.
For the past 18 months before the horrific events in Kabul, the United States suffered no military casualties. Fighting was mainly carried out by Afghan forces and the United States was in a support role, including close air help in firefights.
Therefore, the case to pull out was mostly about the realization that little future progress in the country was possible.
It isn’t clear whether Washington believed that without U.S. and allied help, that Afghan forces could prevail. Officially the Pentagon put out that it expected a good showing from the Afghan army—the same argument Biden made in his last phone