An SMG is firing pistol ammo , and even the overpowered ones the Italians used for the MAB were close to useless at 100m, "short" rifle cartridges...
Thanks to her European tour (IIRC it was for the Coronation, lots of interesting ships there) Ashigara is probably the most photographed IJN...
No variant of the Merlin would be powerful enough for a Typhoon that was effectively a generation later than the Spit and weighted more....
By late 1944 German "paratroopers" were not jump capable but were amongst the best line infantry the Germans still had, a couple of steps above VG...
The categories are indeed not always clear cut, but I stand by them as a useful tool of analysis, and even if it grates against my equalitarian...
From my perspective the London attacker is in the same bracket as those that assault abortionist clinics, or any other unstable person going of...
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Not in very recent times, though some episodes in Africa and the Balkans come close, but if you go back a bit you will find plenty, just think of...
You actually have something like an Italian Nashorn in the 90mm SP guns that were meant to to provide some long range protection against T34 and...
"The strategic bombing campaign waged by the Allies used two different methods: Daylight precision bombing by the USAAF and night carpet bombing...
The threat to the fields I was thinking of was from the East, not the South. Hitler will react to the USSR going into Moldovia and Bessarabia by...
I would disagree, there's plenty of "trampling my enemy under my feet and laying waste to his land", and not just related to Canaan, yes it was in...
There is an apparent difference between what's written in the treaties and the day to day practice, whether that is covered by secret clauses or...
At least in Italy we see the "traditional" parties of the left and right allied against new "movements" that promise to get rid of the party...
I could quote just as many lines that prove the exact opposte, and you probably know it, but my English copy of the Bible went AWOL. "The book" is...
The concept of "holy war" doesn't make much (if any) allowance for non combatants, and all judaic christians religions have that, the Bible has...
Very rare is probably an exageration, that would apply to the full power cartrige FG42 that was produced in rather limited numbers but I believe...
Based on a single episode but it looks different here in Italy, a friend if mine was killed by a drunken US soldier a few years ago on a car...
None of those seems to be related to the control cable, unless we are missing details like the vehicles stopping after the cables broke, the high...
For WW1 Liddell Hart would be my choice though I'm a lot less well read on that war, I believe it's his best book. Churchill is ...... Churchill...