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Pray tell me what strategy should have been used on the Western front?, flanking maneavers that may have been available to the Union troops at Cold Harbour were not much use on a front that stretched from the North sea to the Swiss border.Surprise was also eliminated by the requirement of...

I think Haig`s reputation is a good example of "popular history" being given more credit than factual history,there have been other examples the Vietnam war is another more recent one.The people responsible for are the authors with an axe to grind.David Lloyd George for instance in his memoirs...

It seems to me that if this grieving mother is given a little more time she would realise that pulling our troops out will mean we have been defeated and her son will have died in vain,for nothing,nada.This is of course cuts no ice with the the left leaning politicos and the the jackals of the...

EXSPY,That is definitely not Lahr airfield however I believe it is Bremgarten the home of the Luftwaffe recce wing JG.52 equipped with RF4C Phantoms. All three of these bases,Baden,Lahr,and Bremgarten,were built by the French shortly after WW2.Baden was planned to be built right at the edge of...

OLD SWEAT,yes I remember it well,4 Fd,Wksp.Ft.Chambley 63-66.I even got a fam.ride in one of your L.19s.The Brits. told the Germans they owned the air below 20,000ft.and if they didn't like it they shouldn't have lost the war.Here in the south every day was an airshow, but the really low flying...

A Sherman Firefly with the 17pdr could have certainly got him if the the range and angle had been right.However is it really that important who got him as long as someone did,after reading a little about him I believe his time had run out as he was starting to believe he was invincible.        ...

OLD SWEAT,I am not sure the RCAF ever used it in the interceptor role in Europe, as far as I remember as soon as the 104 replaced the Sabre they went to the nuclear strike role and then sometime in the late 70s to recce and ground attack.The aircraft was very unforgiving and flying in these...

OLD SWEAT, I think you are correct as far as the number of CF104s are concerned but the losses of percentages of aircraft in service are comparable with the Luftwaffe,somewhere near a quarter of the total were lost by both the RCAF and the Luftwaffe. The Canadian pilots seemed more adept at...

Tommy,The British soldier on the Western Front 1914-1918 Another excellent read from Richard Holmes,concerns mainly the Brits, but Canadians get an honerable mention,the front was basically the same no matter whose army one served. The book makes some attempt to debunk some of the myths that...

I would suspect the JSF is going to be under very close scrutiny with the Democrats running things.                                   Regards

Watched a report this morning on France 24,an English language news station,on the Canadian election.A French Canadian reporter and the CBC journalist in France,were interviewed by a French  TV reporter,the consensus seemed to be that the Conservatives would stay in power for the foreseeable...

HARRIS,Concur,as long as it doesn't cost the life of ONE of our guys.When we start losing men so that the politicians can appear as great humanitarians its time to either get robust or stay inside the wire.                                                   Regards

I am afraid that all of these "One World" Internationalist dreams are just that,dreams.Consider the Anglosphere touted here so often,how would it have survived Suez,Vietnam,Iraq?,just to mention a few.No my friends the best we can hope for is more "Alliances of the Willing".The hopes that we...

Poor Heather M.,I feel somewhat sorry for her,don't people realize that the fact this(Palin) heterosexual,attractive,politically savvy, hockey mother should be seem in some quarters as a model modern woman,must be a slap in the face for Ms.M.The fact that she is also a conservative and an...

Saw the program,pure bullshit!, nothing but he said,she said,unsubstantiated accusations.The BBC should be ashamed they even aired such junk and the reporter should be charged with some offence,it shouldn't be hard to do as he lied his way in and lied his way out.I suppose the Guardian agreed...

Of course the war in A-Stan. is winnable,we in the West have the military power to crush these, basically primitive tribesman,however if we lose we will lose it at home,in Canada;just as the Americans lost the Vietnam and Korea, at home, not on the battlefields. There are forces at work here in...

Interesting,a couple of years ago I had a little to do with the French Gendarmes and noticed that a large number of them were wearing French para wings I asked if they were all ex-paras and was told that as they were under the control of the Dept.of Defence they were allowed to attend para...

GEO very good in the shortrun,however the Germans took the entirely wrong lesson from their wars,namely that all wars are wrong,the real lesson is that fighting wars for an aggressive dictator are wrong and fighting for a democratic ideal are right.Insofar as the Germans were handed their...

Obama picks a long time political veteran for VP and McCain picks a MILF,good thinking on McCain's part,given the level and tone of this campaign,just look at the muck raking on this thread alone.Adamant if you are really interested in the issues you would not be following this campaign so...

After reading thread after thread of pro Russian drivel it is a breath of fresh air to read an accurate description of what the problems are with Russia.It is a imperialistic,expansionist country with a population who have never known democracy and shows very little interest in in the idea. The...