By Forrest L. Marion, RealClearDefense: “During the so-called "Phoney War" from the fall of 1939 to the spring of 1940, the former Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Lord Gort – reassigned to command the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in France against the German attack that everyone knew was to come – inexplicably remained attentive to nonessential concerns.”
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The United States designated what it described as an international oil smuggling and money laundering network led by Turkish businessman Sitki Ayan.