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But on the plus side, I can find no record of his ever having used the word 'girt'. So he wasn't all bad. ;)

..."Under God." If you look at that man's history he is made out to be some sort of hero. It was the piles of dead bodies on the beaches or Normandy that was his claim to fame. I never liked him and sure didn't like his "Under God." He was President when our CIA planted the seeds of...

Except for the Italian AF remaining in the picture, none of this explains why establishing air superiority would be any different. The Italian AF possessed 3,000 planes, only 60% of which were operational. Against this you have to compare 322k Allied casualties slogging up the mainland. Sicily...

...to undertake two major landings at the same time. The landing that actually occurred in southern france was small scale relative to normandy, and used many of the same ships, sailed around to get there. If you put the first effort in the south, you would have to use MORE ships to get there...

I was thinking of an alternative to mainland Italy, not so much an alternative to Overlord.

...the N African Bases and the target, and the limited number of airfields on Corsica to support the invasion. Corsica is about as far from Marseille as Normandy is from Portsmouth, but southern England had about a bazillion airfields, while Corsica didn't have so many. So, in a word, logistics.

Your unfounded assumptions and lack of understanding is noted. I hope your not a presumptuous asshole, which I would never actually call anyone on this forum.

...2001. Young friend came into Boeing in LB all excited one Monday. He had been on a date with his GF. They were pulled over near 188th and Normandy (others might remember this site reference for other reasons). He was slammed up against a block wall with scars and bruises to prove it and...

...not familiar with at least the second Mass Effect game, as it just kinda throws in the big players like the Collectors, Reapers, Shepard, Normandy and Cerberus But if you are familiar with the game then this just doesn't live up to the standard it sets in terms of characters and story The...

I don't know where you're getting your information. Bush negotiated a gradual withdrawal of American forces with the Iraqi government that would have US troops out on that last day of 2011. That marked the end of the SOFA (status of forces) agreement. We weren't going to leave troops in Iraq...

Perhaps air support would be sufficient. Just seeing friendly Apache helicopters in the sky must do wonders for moral. Moral is everything in a battle. What we just saw happen in the northern Iraq was a classic rout. There are many examples in the history of warfare of a superior force, at least...

Again? We didn't occupy the place first time around. We committed a fraction of the necessary numbers. The hubris of the neocons: one American is worth a thousand Iraqis. Or something. What happened in Sunniland was not just a militia with remarkable moral power over the Iraqi army. It is a...

When Bush The Wise was in office, he wanted to hold Iraq under permanent occupation, but because Obama is running away with his tail between his legs, the terrorists are taking over, just as his holiness Bush predicted. This is what we get for electing a socialist dictator: the terrorists win...

Any US military support, mainly in the form of air support, for Iraq would need to be aimed at adding back cohesion to the Iraqi military forces who are folding under the pressure right now. Their military probably sees this as hopeless. However, anything more air support would require an...

And that's a good thing. Increased unwillingness to slaughter innocent civilians is sign of progress, not moral decay. Anyway, in this situation we would more resemble the Nazi aggressors, not the Allied liberators.

That's an excellent film, I saw it a number of years ago. Sorry, re-reading my post I could have made it clearer that I do understand your position on Iraq. It was more a general response to the mindset that invading and occupying anywhere actually solves problems (except in the most extreme of...

In WWII we also had a positive propaganda machine. You can watch the us film Why We Fight online. There was isolationist opposition during the war. In the Pacific initially the desperate state of the war was initially not made public for morale reasons. it was not opened up till later in the...

For good reason - we had the stomach and the will for it in WW2 because the Germans and the Japanese wanted everything and were quite set on killing a whole shitload of people all over the world. They also had some of the best weapons and tactics the world has seen to that point. There is no...

...our overwhelming militarypower does ot work, unless we are willing to fully unleash it withoutrestraint. As in WWII. In the breakout from Normandy Eisenhowerresorted to carpet bombing the French countryside incurring civiliancausalities. Have a draft and fully mobilize forwar. Occupy and...

That's an interesting observation. I think there are a few times in the series where you get the feeling that it is celebrating the war - but it is usually in the context of emphasising the leadership qualities of an individual, the resilience of the soldiers or their camaraderie. The series...