Actually going into Iraq in 2003 on the side of the Shi'ite Iraqi is proving to have been a BIG mistake. But this was done because the Neo-cons...
According to the linked site you provided, under losses per year, the Germans started the war with 57 operational U-boats. That roughly equals the...
My old college professor was able to "interview" Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz after the war, in fact several times. The impression he devived was that...
Adolf Crazy? Define crazy. And what time-frame do you want to talk about? It seems clear even from second and third hand reports Adolf was...
"Why would Popov lie?" -- there is a simple answer: to make a buck. American magazines would pay good money for articles which were sensational and...
Any resemblance between the movie "Pearl Harbor" and actual History is accidental. That movie is a drama, a love story -- not a documentary. The...
Yes, one hears a lot about ISIS in the News and the Blogisphere, much of it untrue. ISIS, or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria is comprised mostly...
Trench warfare was hundreds of years old by 1914. Look up Vauban. Machine-guns were ACW technology. Off the top of my head the Great War warfare...
Am I the only one here who has ever been to Mosque? Or Synagog. Or Temple? Or Shrine? Am I the only one here who speaks Arabic? Am I the only...
No one has paniced in the US? I guess you have not been hearing the news which I have heard. Americans have been slowly losing their rights due to...
The concept of "American Excellence" is a fair recent jingoistic and chauvanistic concept developed in the recent years after 2000 by a right-wing...
I think you read more than was intended to the translated quote from the spokesman from ISIS. Read it again, but read without FEAR in your heart....
Early in the war General B.F. Butler (Dem, Mass) brought his contigent of "trained" Mass. Volunteer troops into Baltimore to quell "riotous...
Another great man one said: "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and you can fool all of the people some of the time; but you can not...
Back in 1980, as some of you may recall, the government of Cuba had a sudden reversal of policy. They were allowing their citizens to flee via...
ISIS appears to be another name for the BA'ATH Party, the entity based on the Sunni Sect of Islam. The Ba'ath Party had influence over Iraq and...
Common rookie mistake. Yes, DU still decays, just more slowly. But here is a secret: hit DU hard enough and watch it catch fire. And incoming...
One thing about being the son of a proessional metalurgist is being able to ask questions. Some twenty years ago I asked about DU armour. I was...
Wow, a lively discussion. Let me see if I can add to it. Going back to causes of the ACW: Slavery did not cause the ACW, but was, in fact, behind...
I think I now recall why Congress can-ed the A-10: the other plane will create more profit in key congressional districts. Manufacturer's profits...
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