My father was heavily involved in the Italian missile test site in Sardinia, where other NATO forces often came to try out their equipment....
Good chance with your undertaking, I've been attempting something like it on and off or over 30 years now but the inflation, "official" and "real"...
The inclusion of the primary sources is what makes that book authoritative, I'm not complaining about them at all, the inclusion of original...
Fully agree with you, and as far as tanks are concerned we must also consider Fiat/Ansaldo was the only producer and strongly resisted any action...
I think Long Beach had a pair of 5 inch/38 but about sure when the were installed, I have seen some pictures without them. The use of such an old...
After Barbarossa "Uncle Joe" was not an "aggressor" for western propaganda, he went back to being one with the cold war. Officially the Warsaw...
The M2 is a bit borderline as an infantry weapon, only a highly mechanized force like US Army could really afford something like it in WW2,...
In 1945 there was massive ethnic cleansing, while on average less brutal than Nazi politics it still caused thousands of deaths, no way I would...
I was thinking of ethnicity not citizenship when comparing to the Italian WW2 situation, there are literally millions of EU citizens that would be...
As far as I know it will not, it's even more oriented towards high initial velocity that is pretty useless when firing at an unarmoured ship....
The US air force and WW2 German systems are somewhat similar, but I believe in the US number are assigned when a development programme is started...
Evidence up to now is the terrorists were "imported", which in a sense is good news as had they been local the problem would have been even...
And the one after that was the Bf 110. The 111 number was assigned to Heinkel so it turned out to be a Heinkel product. But we got the Ta 152...
"Just get in there and let's end it" ..... fully agree with the sentiment but it won't be easy. Eliminating ISIS will create a void and there are...
IMO the only way to solve this is boots on the ground, the attempts to wage war by proxy or by robot is what got us into the current mess....
Still under shock at this and not thinking clearly, was in Paris a lot lately and some of those place names are quite familiar. That the...
A 3" (76mm) shell is just too light to do significant damage to a 7000t hull but the very high rate of fire could mean lots of hits, as long as...
Blockading a neutral Italy would be harder than blockading Spain and a pretty tough card to play for the British diplomatically. There were tens...
A court martial behind closed doors is not my definition of a "fair trial", though it probably is legal which is not a good reference for US...
You are wong here, Anonymous and other similar groups don't have 1% of the resources the NSA has so pose a much smaller threat, especially as both...
