I´ll try to find the references to war games (afaik - I´m writing from my work) they took place on 2nd and 8th Jan, 1941. Why attack Europe?...
You are a defence minister, woh, after long negotiations issued specifications for a tank, incl. number and price total. The stupid Renault...
A tour de force, Oli! Many Members misunderstand, how science works. Science is unable to prove that a Creator of Universe or anybody like...
It is with not a little amusement, that I have been reading some of our colleagues here, who tried to convince me that I am sort of charlatan or...
The comparison with Vietnam is very good. Too much politics and corruption, I suppose, involved. Too little real need to win it. Lots of fanatism...
afaik, they were too far away any viable project to contemplate delivery systems. Remeber the neverending problems in pr. Manhattan.......
This tank is the best example, how politics influences armaments. One can get horny over looking at ""Royal Tiger" in action :bang: Or...
There are not many, who know, that Erwin Rommel had a cousin in the olish Army - General Julius Ròmmel. The last commanded the Lodz Army in 1939....
How realistic would it be to concentrate all German research resources on only one subject: why not a German Project Manhattan? I am almost...
Your own words: "One of the populist's main points was a reduction of immigration and expulsion of immigrants (for immigrants read Muslims)...
Indeed, it does sound like theoretical exercises: I think it is logical, so it must be so. No matter what whoever says. Imo you overestimate...
I did overlook it, Roel. He didn´t have a good start. Chernobyl was not exactly a good pr for glasnost´. His problem was also, if it´s true,...
It sounds more like the journalist´s licentia. It´s not his actual words. But it sounds true. Maybe only later he realized that iy was himself who...
AFAIR he was 1st secretary of a regional Party organization (in Stavropol) and member of Cental Commitee, but not Politburo, but I am not sure...
afaik there are no accurate estimates. Who, do you expect, counted Severloh´s exploits? Poor boy. Poor boys. Imagine being there: shooting and...
Soviet soldiers could not surrender, no matter what the circumstances. In case of documented surrender, their families were considered as families...
"Indeed. Do you doubt the rationality of the universe merely because you fail to grasp all of it's intricacies ?" Possibly. Even very probably...
Very true..... I am just puzzled: how that bunch of geriaric nursing home inhabitants found out that that he was the man for the job, and what...
It almost doesn´t count: once. Besides, it was to attract the audience to the worthy subject. Still a sin..... :oops: Btw, Roel: how come you...