Correct me if I'm wrong, (as if I really need to tell people to do that on this site). One of the fruits of the Polish Guarantee was the despatch...
Just a quick question...off topic a little.... What happens to all of these threads in "The Stump"? Seems to me, once a thread is moved to here,...
Forget global warming! The real problems for our future will manifest themselves in due course, once a billion Indians and another billion...
Are there any pictures of Eva wearing this watch? she liked the high life from the perspective of clothes and jewelery, as most women do. There...
Freeman tells the same story....coming home from the vestry meeting, Lee was walking in the rain, and, removing his cape, sat down. Though late...
There is an enduring story concerning Henry Ford and his manipulation of the workforce under him at the plant at River Rouge. Ford insisted that...
Just something small concerning Robert E. Lee, before I turn my attention to John Bell Hood, (at the request of the good Mr Price, whose opinions...
"Lee fully understood that the key to victory lay in the civilian sector...." Trouble was, Lee was attempting to please the SOUTHERN element of...
Just for a little balance, I'm going to include the concluding tracts of Mr Gary W. Gallagher's essay, "A Great General is So Rare: Robert E. Lee...
BTW...I've played the campaign scenario of "The Civil War" MANY times, (an old favourite of my old gaming circle. Using the "no offensive...
I'm not so sure that the meager situation that existed with Johnston was mirrored by events in the Eastern theater. If I look at my campaign game...
Great Price Mr Post....sorry! Great post Mr Price... I was hoping to grab your attention with this post. As you may have gathered, I'm reading a...
I'm not so sure that the appointment of Braxton Bragg was due to political expediency. Bragg was, simply, the best man for the job....at the time....
The inability of Jefferson Davis to do anything about the caustic and virilent comments levelled at his senior staff officers should, therefore,...
Urqh, I would like to offer the following advice regarding acceptance speeches, of which the above is a fine example. Just to be 'snooty', I...
Two incidents stand out in my mind. Both of these had a truly negative impact, and are prime examples of why newsmen are treated so dimissively by...
Yep, Urqhy.... Sucess speaks volumes. Rommel was a loser. Puffed up by Nazi propaganda, a political appointee like Rommel cannot escape the fact...
I imagine the lack of sucess with this weapon can be explained by the very limited time that the German Army had to develop a doctrine for their...
I bet the Vietnamese rue the day they won.....their country is still in a mess. China does not seem interested in pumping money into the country,...
Certainly there was nothing to equal the Cold War in Asia. Korea was 'hot', and the Chinese, too, but niether of them had The Bomb....for the...
