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...has constructed are not invulnerable fortresses. Indeed it was one of the follies of both Allies and Germany in WWII. The Maginot line, Normandy beachheads, and others failed to effectively stop offensive forces. They slowed things down, but ultimately fixed fortifications are a loser’s...

I've been following the counteroffensive on Twitter -- not much progress in liberating territory, but the Ukrainian Army doesn't like to do human-wave attacks. Ukraine right to be cautious with counter-offensive, top NATO official says | Reuters (((Tendar))) on Twitter: "Pro-Russian sources...

Germany vs Russia was different. Hitler had lost in North Africa. The allies were in Italy. The Kriegs marine was badly mauled. Normandy was a successful invasion. Allied bombing was destroying Germany city by city. The Luftwaffe was crippled. Russia vs Ukraine is far different. T-34s were...

...South China Sea. Patton along with FDR, MacArthur, Eisenhower and the others were the right people for the time. When the breakout from Normandy stalled Eisenhower authorized carpet bo,bing a path out from the beachheads. The British eventually returned with firebombing German cities in...

The D-Day landings at Normandy were accompanied by a massive psyops campain. Tens of million of pamphlets were dropped from the air across Europe. Including pamphlets announcincing the successful landings. Warning French villagers of the massive invasion near the French coast as the landings...

As part of the deception attack at Pas de De Calais on D-Day dummy paratropers were dropped to add to the effect. Patton had led a dummy army with wooden airplanes and balloon tanks on the ground. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/object-of-intrigue-the-dummy-paratroopers-of-wwii...

...or not we agree with the person who takes someone off the street and locks them up". We don't judge the guys who stormed the beaches at Normandy in the exact same way that we judge a school shooter, even though "shooting people is shooting people". Circumstances matter. That's why we have...

And submarines can't conduct invasions. It will be Chinese ships at sea vs missiles and some artillery putting up a gauntlet. Landing ships do not mount good anti-missile defenses and will have very little ability to use them even if they had them because the missile tracks will be so short...

Old school. Any artillery piece that sits around firing will get nailed by a missile. It will have to be shoot and scoot. On the flip side, naval artillery has to be on a ship--and that ship will likewise draw missile fire. If China can get a solid beachhead they win, but getting such a...

To create a landing beachhead, China might use long range guided and ballistic missiles, not to mention drones, in place of artillery bombardment from ships that could be targeted. The US Navy would be critical in the defense of Taiwan, and China could target American ships easily. Navies...

The difference is, at Normandy, there were no smart weapons. No guided anti-ship missiles, no guided artillery rockets, no smart artillery shells. No smart anti-aircraft missiles. I have no idea what Taiwan has, but China may well pay a heavy price for any invasion.

...to reinforce the defenders at the landing sites. And the lack of adequate artillery for defence was one of the key factors in choosing Normandy as the target - the area around Calais, and further North into Belgium and The Netherlands, was far more heavily armed with artillery, as well as...

...name is Marvin? Seeing as we like just rehashing the same argument over and over, I'll repeat mine - a lever action .30-30 is all you need for self defense. You don't need something more advanced than what was used to storm the beaches in Normandy on D-Day. Your life isn't that stressful.

Too radical a thought. Police must spend every second on the job thinking they are storming the beaches at Normandy. How else can they stop antifa from smashing windows?

...and there's this wonderful photo of these young men uh with getting off a landing craft going on to Omaha Beach in the invasion of Normandy. Two out of three would make it off that beach. Average age 26, average salary (inflation adjusted base) is 800 bucks. I can't imagine any of...

...all British and I am your King. Well Americans didn't vote for you. You don't vote for kings! How'd you become King then? The Lord of Normandy, his arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, showed up with an army from the bosom of the Channel signifying by Divine Providence that all his...

Found this post from some arrogant cunt in another school shooting thread a few years ago: Actually, I didn't realise I use the "You daily life isn't as fucking stressful as D-Day" trope a bit too much.

...White Rose was beheaded. Hitler withdrew into his own relity and any negative comments coud be fatal. When Hitler was informed of the Normandy landing he had slept late and nobody would wake him. His response was it was a good thing, kind of like now I have them where I want them...

China and India have been shooting at each other over China's seizing a border area. China ca not overtly condemn Russia while it is doing the same. China is well aware of international images. It cares how it is perceived by the world, unlike Putin...

My guess? Probably at that point, NATO would change its position on enforcing a no-fly zone. And after that, every missile fired by Russia would be assumed to be nuclear, and the response would match that: an immediate (conventional) counter-strike against whatever base or ship fired it. China...