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War without Battles 4 Brigade 1951-1993,cannot remember the authors name,I am sure someone could help me out.Will mostly be of interest to those who served in NWE during the Cold War and explains why we did some of the things we did during those interesting times.                                ...

I suppose it just was not in the cards for Arizona but they sure gave it their best shot.Great game though almost screwed up by the officials, roughing the holder,never heard of that one before.All three of those personal foul penalties against Arizona were questionable to say the least.        ...

GEORGE W.,since I was the one who objected to the tone of the reply given to Belka`s post and all I receive was a cheap shot,I read a large number of his previous posts and I find very little to justify your comment about his "track record".Please clarify.                                    ...

JORNEYMAN,maybe you should ease up on your personal insults.                       Regards

CRAP,who is this expert and what are his credentials?.How many allied troops are alive today because of the availability of CAS,and as far as the Israelis are concerned 4 weeks of intense bombing produced just over 1000 dead most of whom were terrorists,prove otherwise if anyone can, is not a...

Watched the anointing of ABM on CNN and BBC World,the dumb things I heard there would take up too much bandwidth to repeat here.           Regards

Daftandbarmy,surely the aim of basic trg. in any army. Did not one of the "leg" Legion infantry units volunteer to jump into Dien Bien Phu without any prior para trg. and had a lower accident rate than the regular para units?.                         Regards

I was watching an old program from the ITV series Soldier Soldier on TV last night,this was sort of a Brit.army soap opera from the 70s,and a female medic was wearing a hatbadge with the same device,Lion over the Crown,.So I suspect the buckle is your Granmothers and that she was therefore a...

Given that the lion is above the crown,could it be a M.P. buckle?.                   Regards

That about sums it up.I for one am going miss you George.                                           Regards

Tsar Putin is persueing two objectives here,a political one and an economical one.   First the political,he wishes to demonstrate that he can hurt the economy of any european country that does not agree with Russia`s policys.The Ukraine is just the target of choice at the present time but I am...

GEORGE,             funny you should say that,I read a long time ago that an Irish woman, reputed to be a witch,placed a curse on the family.This was in response to the elder Kennedy`s exploitation of poor Irish immigrants. Funny that.           Regards

INTERMAVERICK25                           You are correct it was aimed at you,it was the "grumpy old man" syndrome coming to the fore.The Canadian Corps was considered by everyone who wrote about the war as brilliant soldiers however the idea that they carried the rest of the BEF to victory in...

Tango2bravo,                   Before you finish your paper on "Canadians, the Worlds Greatest Fighting Men" you should check on what percentage of the Canadian Corps were ex pat Brits.                                     Regards

KIRKHILL,we have read the same books and reached the same conclusions but we are arguing against generations of "popular history"that has portrayed Field Marshall Haig as an unfeeling butcher who sacrificed thousand's of allied soldiers without any sign of remorse or pity.Haig was an...

EXSPY,your are still talking about a decision that was not made by Haig,the Somme battle was fought on ground that was not chosen by him at a time also not his choice, he was merely following orders given to him through his chain of command in an effort to relieve pressure on the French at...

EXSPY,maybe they could have waited until the A-bomb had been developed,sorry, just being facetious,but waiting for a better time, situation,would have been a political decision and as we are discusing Haig`s responsibilities is irrelevant.Further it was not Haig´s war of attrition but a war of...

Is this any suprise?,after all the bosses in the RAF and incidentally the USAF, are all pilots and have allways had a inferiority complex vis a vis naval pilots. The very act of bringing an aircraft aboard a small moving carrier deck as part of their daily routine proves conclusively that they...

Firstly the idea that any General in WW1 fought the battle is an illusion he planned the battle and passed on his orders and waited for the results, after the troops went over the top he at Army HQ had no control,nor did Div.HQ,Bde.HQ,Bat.HQ or even Coy.level, all opportunities to control the...

TOMAHAWK6 The difference is that Haig won his war.   PS For a great read and a somewhat different take on Haig       Tommy,The British Soldier on the Western Front 1914-18  By Richard Holmes       covers all aspects of the war.                                         Regards