Crazy If the Germans managed to stumble ashore and keep supplied their initial aim was to grab Dover, thus getting a port. This would have...
Capt Mainwairing: Now we've been briefed by GCHQ that German parachutists may invade disguised as Nuns. Pvt Godfrey: How can we tell if they are...
HMS Warspite. My least favourite would have been a Russian Submarine.
By the time Escort Carriers were being used in any numbers other technologies had also emerged making U-Boat attacks on any Convoy difficult. A...
Why has nobody mentioned Nuns yet?
Redcoat You more or less covered everything I had to say. It should not escape the notice of US posters that all opinion polls held in the UK...
I don't think the rather unpleasant Polish Military dictatorship would have given up a yard of ground. The whole army command would have, in...
Crazy D A pity I missed the bulk of this thread, which you know we have argued before. On occasion we get some people popping up saying that...
Bish Maggie caved in on other issues, like Zimbabwe. It is no mean reflection on her Premiership that she now stands as one of the most reviled...
The fascinating thing about Dieppe is that it was undertaken without the approval of the Chiefs of Staff in the UK. After the cancellation of...
Brad With what?
Urqh I agree with much of what you say, but be very careful about things like the French Resistance, which is far more myth than reality. My main...
No matter how many NRA-sponsored articles attack Moore and how many Republicans howl at his satire the overall attack is still credible and...
Some good responses here guys based on Geography. I think that it transferred to some British Brigades and Divisions where commanders had strong...
I've been looking at regimental systems and their uses and abuses. This is an extract from an essay and I'd like opinions from you guys. "If we...
Is this the same Don Rumsfeld that was offering Hussein military aid against Iran during face-to- face meetings in the 80's? Is this the same...
Chris I have to put my hands up and say I have no empirical evidence from the US. After all it may well be meaningless given other cultural...
Redcoat: that's the point. Judicial Murder is so good that even if you kill the wrong man, nobody gets punished. It's just chalked up as an...
Steve Carl isn't supporting Castro, he's just burning his crops down.
If you are RMP then I doubt anyone would want to talk to you, unless you know Tamzin Outhwaite in which case you might gather a small following on...
