Question to all American members who have been there - is highschool really so bad for anyone who is not on the football team? The image Hollywood...
To earn Roman citizenship one had to serve twenty years as a footsoldier or twenty-five in the cavalry.
It's not a name, it's a nickname, and also a dirty word in German. Her name, as stated around here a long time ago, is Roxy... I believe (but...
That is the reason why they were encircled, not why they were destroyed. An American infantry regiment is hardly helpless when entrenched in a...
Of course the rule does not always apply. Quite oddly, my mother seems very interested sometimes when I talk about my study subjects in military...
True, but note that the situations you describe were not all that typical in history. Cavalry is always the exceptional unit which by virtue of...
There was a scene in "Falling Down" which dealt with this. An excellent movie, recommended viewing for everyone.
天安門, or Tiananmen, or Gate of Heavenly Peace. Thank you, carry on... :grin:
Whoa, that sentence has all of one actual English word! I think it's quite a feat :grin:
I suppose there is some truth in the idea that Japan, like China, is too pragmatic to present any of its own actions as a mistake or an atrocity....
The 62nd Volksgrenadier Division, composed of former Kriegsmarine personnel, performed admirably during the Ardennes offensive. Together with the...
Morally I can accept the common Western division of the world into "good" (capitalist democracy) and "bad" (communist dictatorship), but I really...
Same thing everywhere. Not only will they not find war interesting themselves, they will often reject the notion that anyone might find it...
It's a bit of an oversimplification to say that all battles before the invention of the field radio were just mass clashes of formations without...
Like I said, I think it is immoral to torture him, despite all the crimes he has committed. If you commit crimes yourself in order to punish him,...
Some estimate that more than 90% of the population of South and Central America died of disease shortly after the Spanish arrived...
Reason why I'm being precise about it is that the terms are not synonymous. While Egyptians are Muslims, they are neither tent makers nor goat...
That's an interesting reaction to the attacks - do all these people think having another gun by their bed is going to stop hijacked planes from...
Thank you for validating Godwin's Law... In answer to your question, yes, I would absolutely let him live. That is what it means to abolish the...
Egypt is inhabited chiefly by Egyptians. Ethnic minorities like Arabs and Berber peoples are not numerous and never have been.
