Ron Spot on with FDR. It was a major US intelligence failure with faults all along the chain of command. Whit no overall co-ordinating structure...
I certainly wouldn't accept the Pentagon as reliable: they're usually so busy briefing against each other they only tell the truth by accident. Jumbo
Was there a general problem with Discipline with the Canadians? They had certainly caused a lot of trouble in Britain, Goebbels even said that if...
You're all assuming that the Allies, particularly the US, wanted a Soviet invasion of Manchuria at all. I think the last thing that the US wanted...
To be honest in the US system it is very hard to do anything anyway. The whole system is designed to stop the Administration doing things through...
So you want your Government to send armed men into another country to rescue people you think might exist. I am assuming you mean Vietnam....
If the British could get away with Winnie and Pooh I'm not one to throw stones at Big Dora the Kommandants Daughter! Jumbo
Andreas This is more a conflict of the Heartless (Saddam) versus the Mindless (Bush). This thing is twisting and turning all over the place. If...
I thought Hardy Kruger had all his limbs and eyes!
I think if we expet a film to convey such a complex event and be 100% accurate we are really asking too much: there is a General public out there...
I've just finished Wavell's memoirs, which sadly stop before his posting to the Far East. This most thoughtful of British Generals was really...
MP38 There is life after 1945. Although the IS2 wasn't a particularly good tank, it did give the Soviet Union invaluable experience in developing...
I'd only bet on Goring if it was an eating competition...
I liked this bit.... The Engineer Battalion 47 of VII Army Corps was designated as having responsibility for the "construction of seaworthy...
Crazy You need to start with Hugh Trenchard, the father of Strategic Bombing. Both the RAF and the USAAF were believers in the bomber as a...
Friedrich I don't think that Germany could have chosen both. Defeating Britain would mean creating some sort of expeditionary strategy and the...
At least Malta is smaller than Crete! I think it was quite vulnerable, particularly early on in the campaign. And with good old Lord Gort in...
Andreas Well the Turks are killing Kurds now anyway! I doubt that the Turks would want more of them. The Kurds and the Marsh Arabs are the wild...
Who mentioned excellent? All I said was that it had considerably improved on the situation immediatley after Dunkirk. More than enough to deal...
A neighbour of mine when I was a kid was a Normandy Vet from the DLI. He had terrible shell-shock from moaning minnies, and only ever spoke about...
