Stunning, too, considering that in recent weeks, many military analysts and diplomats were grousing that the Northern Alliance seemed like an indifferent, rudderless ragtag collection of third-rate soldiers.
Contrary to their self-image of being superbly able to mold citizens into first-rate soldiers, the British were astonishingly slower than the Germans at learning how to prevail in trench warfare.
Gen. John Bankhead Magruder, a first-rate soldier and one of the most important and most misunderstood military commanders of the Civil War.
He reportedly made a first-rate soldier and impressed his comrades as "one who always did his duty, and could be relied on at all times".
Very slowly, as if he were in some perverse way proud of what had befallen him or of how stoically he'd endured it, he began to smile, and I couldn't help thinking that he'd make a first-rate soldier in whatever war we were prosecuting when he grew up.
The lethal combination of high rates of HIV rates among soldiers and the massive rape in eastern Congo means a possible death sentence for raped girls and women.
Recently historians have suggested the death rate among soldiers did not fall immediately but rose, and was higher than any other hospital in the region.
But General Chiarelli said the suicide rate for soldiers who first entered the Army in their late 20s was three times higher than for those in the younger group.
The rate among soldiers hospitalized for psychiatric problems was more than 14 times that.
The combination of regular warfare, disease, difficult forced labor and harsh measures of justice resulted in a high mortality rate among soldiers and civilians alike during her 33-year reign.
The crude incident recurrence infection rate among soldiers previously infected during the study period was 110.7 per 1,000 person-years of follow-up (95% CI, 96.9 to 126.0).
