What people should have reacted against was the Serb aggression at the time. If you've seen the wartorn villages of Bosnia, as I have, and met the...
Hehe, good quote! Quite funny! And in regards to officers in general at times more accurate than I'd care to admit! :-) Thanks for the kind...
Maybe we should create a separate thread for our little rank debate? Anyway, in Germany during the war and nowadays a division was and is...
Well, I'm pretty certain the list is in ordnung, as Wiki states the very same: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel-General The insignia is...
I suppose, and this in no way meant to be impolite, you fall into the usual Patton-trap, so to say, Roel! :-) Patton was in many ways a...
I don't think so, Roel. A four-star general would an Obergruppenführer. Four stars are an "ordinary" generall. Three stars is a Lt.Gen, two a...
Oh, where to start!? :) Let's see Patton knew France very well. He was one, along with Alanbrooke, of the few who actually had a good working...
Oh, sorry, Simon, I was just making a general comment in regards to the thread as such! I can see why you thought otherwise - my mistake!...
I've just finished Martin Blumenson's Patton (the short abouth 300 pages version, not the 2,000+ one! :)) and it would seem that Patton and his...
Split from "Best divisional commanders" Regarding Sepp D and his rank! Dietrich commanded the Liebstandarte as a divisional commader...
Good article, Jens! This story should be retold much more often! I remember the many "political scientists" and how angry they made me (and...
As Roel quite correctly notes this is more or less a no go - without (total) air supremacy the Allies would simply not go! That said, I don't...
But I suppose that FDR had to fuel the American publics lust for revenge/war with Germany and all that. It would take some time and a lot of...
Good points, Ricky, and thanks for explaining my mixed tenses - the hazard of not talking/writing in ones first language! I probably make loads of...
You seem to misunderstand my point, Grieg. I do not believe that it would come to a war between the US and Japan, if Japan did not attack American...
I don't think so. What I meant was, and I'm sorry if that wasn't clear, that without the Japanese attack on Pearl, there would have been no...
Well, perhaps not. It all depends on the US declaring war in the first place - hard to image without Pearl, right? And if so, the extra time...
Interesting thread. I have always found that the Japanese really messed up by attack Pearl and thus bringing the US into a war it otherwise did...
Well, that might be to simplify things overly much. I tend to believe that the lessons the planners at OKL/RLM drew from Spain etc etc was that...
Generally speaking the Italians have a fairly undeserved reputation as incompetent and cowardly soldiers. I'll grant that the battelfield...
