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Victor Davis Hanson does have some interesting ideas, but I also find that he seems to over generalize. He does espouse a sexy idea but I have trouble reconciling his thesis with the Mongols for example who consistently bested Western armies with their theoretically "tentative combat". Lynn on...

Not necessarily. Osama Bin Ladin is after all a billionaire{Or is he just a millionaire?}. And most of the September 11th people were middle class Saudis. Relative prosperity gave them time to pursue "other" interests, rather than just scrape along, on a shoe string like most of Africa. Though...

Does anyone else find that site hilarious? The opening paragraph could come straight from the Onion. Is this a real site... Never mind. Found the link Is FTT Serious? (http://www.forsakethetroops.info/serious.html) Still, the lunatic fringe can just be awesome for comedic relief. Makes me...

I'm kind of curious about these stories. Are these foriegn forces just that unprofessional? You would think the Belgium Paratroopers would at least be a cut above the rest?

Is this a book excerpt, or an interview, or article? I'm wondering what the context is, other than during the Vietnam war.

Or like how France and Germany were major trading partners before both World Wars or how Britain relied on German chemical firms for their munitions industries before WWI. I figure as long as we keep a lid on our fissionable materials, everything else does not really matter in the long run.

To RN PRN... Even better than a clinic, a family doctor for a lot of the non-emergencies. About arthritis, I meant for the longest time there were no effective drugs for treating them.

I personally think the controversy of the Dresden Firebombing is simply because it was at a point, after the Bulge{the last gasp of the German Army} where wiping one more German city off the map would change the outomce of the war not one iota. Were the Germans suddenly going to be able to push...

Actually, it is. ;) Does this mean you have to give your degree back?

Granastein is one of Canada's better military historians. As for Canada's Army, for people in Calgary, I believe they're quite a few at the University of Calgary bookstore. They're also available from Chapters et al, though it would be easier to order on-line rather than go to an actual store...

Drug spending has a lot to do with people in my opinion in that most people want the doctor to prescibe some magic bullet. A lot of anti-biotics are prescibed for this reason {For ear infections for example}, not because it will help you, but because it makes you feel better. On the other...

What I don't understand in the paper is the rationale that Medak was hyped  because the Canadian Government wanted to distract the public from Somalia. Most of what I know about Medak has come out in the last few years much less 12 years ago.

I personally don't think I am a particularily cruel or heartless person, but I honestly don't care, whether seals live or die. We eat cows for food and leather, does it really matter if people decided to skip the food part and go straight to the skin when it comes to seals? As for bashing seals'...

I think a German superpower is overstating things. For the future, a colonial head start {Spain} or a relatively outsided population{Napoleonic France} or having an industrial head start {Victorian England} is not enough to be a super power. For the future the only superpowers will be those...

Well said Zipper. To say Canada is doomed is both an exaggeration and a possibility. The reasons Mark Steyn gave were superficial, and given his interesting skew, unconvincing I personally don't think it will be as a result of regional differences. Quebec is an important, and integral part of...

To say peacekeeping has been a failure, is a rather superficial assessment. Peacekeeping almost always had greater geo-political consequence rather than stopping enemy combatants from fighting. The Suez Canal crisis for example, made use of peacekeepers to extricate the British and French in a...

I personally think the future of the Canadian Forces is looking up. Paul Martin, I think wants to be statesman. He, along with Jean Chretien, made the decisions that had to be made when the national debt balloned to 2/3s of our GDP, with no balance budgets in sight. Big whoop. What...

With the personal weapons of frontline infantry getting lighter and smaller, wouldn't the bayonet be even more useful for close in fighting? Unlike a Lee-Enfield, a Lee-Metford, or a Brown Bess, a C7, or whatever variant, is rather light to use as a club. So wouldn't a bayonet be even more...

This has nothing to with the forum, but, Mr. Recceguy, I love your signature. Almost always applicable, anywhere, anytime.

Thanks, this is all really helpful.