If I could work out to delete this comment I would do so immediately. This is because after submitting my queries on Chucrhill's behaviour I...
You raise an issue which interests me and which may interest others. I have read much about Churchill over the years and it seems that he was ......
No, it really only applied in jungle where no one could hardly see another and as a result officers were detached from exercising immediate control...
As an infantry platoon commander in an Army that was pretty much totally committed to fighting jungle warfare and who served in South Vietnam for one...
QUOTE: "The vast majority of the troops defending Malaya were Indian and brand new recruits at that. Following orders is what is done in the army and...
You have some significant points there. There are a lot of imponderables about all of this. May be the US carriers would have been in harbour at...
I can't quite see that. I don't think that there would have been much of a change of attitude about fighting in the jungle even 6 months later....
This is my premise. The British lost Singapore because of the impact of the class system on their fighting ability. Firstly the sheer arrogance of...
And to respond to the original aim of the topic I reckon the best infantry weapon in WW2 was the little pack howitzer of the Japanese in the Pacific...
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