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Britain and France thought they were prepared.
Britain and France knew they were not prepared. They made no serious attempt to invade Germany at all. They bickered, they prevaricated. The RAF dedicated the first 9 months to dropping incendiaries onto Germany which read as follows:
Warning!
England to the German people
The Nazi regime has, in spite of the endeavours of the leading great Powers, plunged the world into war.
This war is a crime. The German people must quite clearly distinguish between the pretexts employed by its government so as to unleash war and the principles which have forced England and France to defend Poland.
From the very beginning the English government has made it clear that the Polish question is not one which can justify a European war with all its tragic consequences.
Five months after the Munich Agreement the independence of Czecho-Slovakia was brutally trodden underfoot. So that Poland shall not also suffer the same fate, we must insist that peaceful methods of negotiation shall not be rendered impossible through threats of force, and that in the negotiations which are requisite the Poles right to live must be guaranteed and honourably kept. We cannot accept or admit a Diktat.
If Herr Hitler believes that the English government, out of fear of war, will allow the Poles to be left in the lurch, then he has been deceiving himself. In the first place England will not break her pledged word. Furthermore, it is high time that the brutal force whit which the Nazi regime strives to dominate the World should be halted.
Through this war the German Chancellor places himself against the unbending resolution of the English government, a resolution which has behind it not only the resources and means of the whole English Commonwealth, but also a union of other great Powers. It is a question of the salvation of human freedom and the right of peoples to live free.
Up to the very last moment the Pope, the President of the United States and the King of the Belgians, in the name of Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland, made fruitless appeals to your Nazi government, urgently requesting that negotiations should be chosen in the place of war.
Now a catastrophe has broken out upon you in that the Reich finds itself isolated from the community of civilised peoples, without any support save that of Communist Russia.
You cannot win this war. Against you are arrayed resources and materials far greater than your own.
For years you have been subjected to the most stringent censorship, and by means of an incredible system of secret police and informers the truth has been withheld from you.
Against you stands the united strength of the free peoples, who with open eyes will fight for freedom to the last.
This war is as repulsive to us as it is to you, but do not forget that England, once forced into war, will wage it unwaveringly to the end. England's nerves are strong, her resources inexhaustible. We will not relent.
Pass on (this leaflet)
This pithy prose could hardly be called a ferocious military assault but it does show a clear consistency of feeling. The Western Allies felt right at the start about the war the way they feel about it still. Ultimately they were right. The free peoples did unite and they did defeat Hitler's Germany, a version of Germany that was not supported by all her citizens, whatever you may believe.
The surprise for ALL involved including Germany is that mobile warfare was so effective. Before WWII no one knew if it would work or go down as disastrous idea. If it had not been effective the BEF and France would have successfully invaded Germany and fought the war in Germany. If the new Wehrmacht tactics had not been effective there would have been no Battle of Britain -- and with a succcessful invasion never close enough to try out. As with the US v Soviet Union, quality against quantity, we do not know which is best because there was no war. Because of WWII we learned Germany's ideas worked.
Here's the thing, Nony. The first leader to combine aircraft, tanks, artillery and infantry into blitzkrieg was Australia's Sir John Monash at the Battle of Hamel in July 1918
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hamel
Monash's Hamel fight has been described thus:
"The battle of Hamel of 4 July—'all over in ninety-three minutes…the perfection of teamwork'. The Americans participated, and Monash had to withstand, by extraordinary force of personality, a last-minute attempt by General Pershing to withdraw them. Military historians have acclaimed it as 'the first modern battle', 'the perfect battle'. 'A war-winning combination had been found: a corps commander of genius, the Australian infantry, the Tank Corps, the Royal Artillery and the RAF'.
His successful tactics were adopted by Sir Douglas Haig at the Battle of Amiens later that year. Amiens was the single most successful battle of the First World War.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Amiens_(1918)
His Hamel and Amiens tactics were an extension of his brilliant work at Broodseinde, the most successful battle of the Passchendale campaign which saw the ANZACS shatter the best German defenses by combined effort.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Broodseinde
My great uncle Frank was at Broodseinde, as a subaltern in the Silent Division.
In WW2 the Germans came up with a new name for Monash's tactics but they were essentially the same thing taken to a higher degree of co-operation by the proliferation of reliable wireless comms. Guderian and Rommel's tactics which involved moving tanks in columns in advance of artillery, infantry and air support worked because the entire front had been broken. Against an organised defense with proper air capability they would have failed completely as they did at Al Alamein.
Monash is considered technically the best general to fight on the Western Front and his tactics were responsible for Germany's defeat on the field and her ultimate capitulation.
And I forgot to mention something, Nony. Australia's favourite son and her greatest soldier, Lt General Sir John Monash, was German Jewish.
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/monash-sir-john-7618
Under Monash the Australian Corps with the NZ First (Silent) Division attached, though comprising only 9.5% of the BEF, captured 18.5% of the German prisoners, 21.5% of the territory and 14% of the guns. This represented an effectiveness 1.95, 2.23 and 1.47 times that of the British Army average. Monash's Corps recaptured 623 square kilometres of France from Germany.
The meandering point of all this is that in 1939 Britain and France had forgotten the tactics they invented to win WW1, were not equipped to fight using those tactics, were not equipped to defend against these tactics. They had no new tanks, no new guns, too few new planes. Not enough troops and not enough equipment. Nor, in the event, did they choose the battlefield. Those poor passive Germans knocked them on the head as they sat behind their static defences, built oddly enough given how law abiding the Germans are, to keep the Germans from invading a second time. Funny that isn't it? Building defenses instead of technologies of assault. You'd think the Germans would have done that, them being so passive and all.
"Experiments are the only means of knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination." Max Planck
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Why do you think a lot of these mercenary groups have lots of south Africas in them.
You mean like the former Executive Outcomes ? ( now Sandline International ) Incidentally the much maligned mercs were a racially integrated fighting force whose main requirements were that volunteers possessed courage under fire and battlefield proficiency. Of course the majority were from elite units to begin with and as such were already a cut above the average soldier.
I really don't know much about this topic but I know for example the Merc's Gadafi used to try escape (When he was killed) were South African. I know a lot of the "Private Security" In Iraq has many South African Members (ex army and ex special task force(south africa elite cops that fell apart in ?2002?)). But yeah I imagine there would be many in Companies like the one you mentioned. Not surprising at all, Third world nation, very little prospect of employment extensive combat history and top of the line military training. There was not much a lot of these people could do but join up with companies like that, great pay compared to staying in our army.
Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
No animal shall wear clothes.
No animal shall sleep in a bed.
No animal shall drink alcohol.
No animal shall kill any other animal.
All animals are equal.
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Of course we would suffer casualties, that's the nature of warfare isn't it ? People die.
Because....
1.) We are a nation that now exceeds 300,000,000 total population.
2.) We are a nation like no other on Earth in that millions of civilians own personal firearms which themselves number in the tens of millions. That's not an insignificant threat to an exposed enemy.
3.) A civilian militia has long been a historical and vital supplement to our regular military. If you think that a few million American partisans couldn't effectively
reduce the number of Canadian military personnel then you should go and read up on how Russian civilians ( partisans ) using only small arms slaughtered German soldiers by using stealth
and cunning. Guerrilla warfare practiced by the Vietnamese communists is what defeated American military might and caused our government to completely abandon its mission. It works, bro.
The more important question is what could your government do now ? This isn't the 1940's.
The trend in warfare in the 21'st century has moved away from large battlefield engagements. It has been replaced by small scale urban warfare ( MOUT = military operations in urban terrain ) which is a tactic that tends to favor the defenders over the aggressors. The use of booby traps, ambushes etc, against the aggressors tend to produce frequent KIA's.
Besides, Canadian military doctrine is well known to US military personnel since your entire military right down to the choice of weapons is modeled upon our own military. Know thy enemy, right ?
The obvious answer is, that is the way it has always been. If it ain't broke don't fix it.
If it misleads the public on defense spending, rest assured you have never heard a single thing about defense spending that isn't misleading. I had an odious job requirement to understand something of the DOD budgeting process and everything I have ever heard in the media is misleading.
As to it not being a military function, when DOD goes to Congress with an increase in man-power to meet a requirement it wants to know the total out-year costs which includes pensions. There is going to be a mix of pay grades and a distribution of those who stay to minimum pension age and beyond which is different by rank and nature of the specializations needed. The less time it takes to qualify for maintenance and operation the less likely to stay long enough for a pension. BUT that leads to a higher turnover which increases training costs. So what is the optimum training time to minimum the total cost of a new weapon system? Who better than the military to answer such questions? (The more complex the system the longer it takes to train. The longer it takes to train the more likely people are to stay to retirement. The longer they stay the higher the pay and thus the higher the pension. Then let a recession come along so people stay longer and screw up all the cost projections.)
Can DOD make a spreadsheet so complex even god cannot understand it? Yes.
When Apple screws up the trade mags note it. When DOD screws up, You wasted our tax dollars. It is a different environment.
As to misleading, what does a new fighter cost? Gee, that's a lot. Do you want weapons and electronics with that? WHAT! How about spare parts and test and maintenance equipment? Your kidding! Do you want to fly and maintain it yourself or would like pilots and mechanics for it? ... And then we get around to how many total and how many per year as the basic cost drivers for everything including man power leading to pensions. Which leads to fobbing them off on our allies to get the costs down.
Meaning you never heard a number that had much of anything to do with the actual cost of a plane or anything else and thus everything you have heard is misleading.
But look at the other side where Brits are still pissed at the US not being ready to save its sorry ass from the war it started. If the US had had this policy and were in the present state in 1939 it could have ended the U-boats in a few months and staged Normandy in a year, maybe ending the war before Russia got into it. With that there is no Cold War and no atom bomb and all the rest. Certainly no Pearl Harbor.
You pays your money and takes your choice.
I agree there is no present threat. It is not clear how long it would take Putin to restart the Cold War if he wanted to. Russia has enough of a military left to make a lot of trouble and nukes to keep it a conventional confrontation. Personally I don't it can be reconstructed but that is just one opinion.
But that is still a one front war so with some spare capacity a 1 1/2 front war would cut costs in half in the long term which seems more than adequate. That would put the barrier for serious military competition too high to attempt. It is a simple business model for a monopoly. Control the steel industry from top to bottom once and no one can afford to start from scratch to become competition.
One should not brag when the other guy is playing fair. Seriously, the Cold War was a huge US gamble that quality could overcome the Soviet quantitative advantage. As there was no war we will never know. Some unanswered questions I can live with.
Jews stole the land. The owners want it back. That is all anyone needs to know about Israel. That is all there is to know about Israel.
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So it boils down to having a bad attitude. Just stop listening to our internal propaganda. I heard enough of the Brit propaganda to know the US was of only modest assistance in Britain's victory over Germany. I don't take theirs seriously. I put it down to the Whovian view of the world.
We have multiples of the population and resources of any country in Europe and ten times Canada's. As in another post, the US never seriously considered it possible to lose regardless of the wartime propaganda. War money was squandered. War bonds were sold to have more money to squander. A bad attitude is normal.
The war was before my time. I don't have a stake in it. I find it amusing so many people much younger than I defend it like they fought in it. You appear to be one of them.
What I find amusing about Canada is it let itself be dragged into a European war by a government it did not vote for and in whose decisions it had no say. And then coming to the defense of the country that declared the war was down right stupid. The US fought Germany because Germany declared war on the US.
As to the insult, the fictionalization is A Man Called Intrepid. The fact is Churchill had agents in the US using bribery and blackmail as its most savory methods to get the US into the war to save its sorry ass. The world may not have suggested it. Churchill certainly did everything he could to make it happen. Pardon if I take that as more than a suggestion.
As to being next the plan was for Britain's government to evacuate to Canada to be a government in exile and thus be under the direct shield of the US. Which "us" are you talking about?
Jews stole the land. The owners want it back. That is all anyone needs to know about Israel. That is all there is to know about Israel.
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Britain and France thought they were prepared. The surprise for ALL involved including Germany is that mobile warfare was so effective. Before WWII no one knew if it would work or go down as disastrous idea. If it had not been effective the BEF and France would have successfully invaded Germany and fought the war in Germany. If the new Wehrmacht tactics had not been effective there would have been no Battle of Britain -- and with a succcessful invasion never close enough to try out. As with the US v Soviet Union, quality against quantity, we do not know which is best because there was no war. Because of WWII we learned Germany's ideas worked.
Pardon if I observe that statement would be laughed at by every military thinker who ever existed. Alexander got his foothold in the Persian empire because their idiot general LET HIM bring all his troops to it would be a fair fight. The king brought his entire court and harem along with him slowing him down and cutting his options at every turn while Alexander had only troops. That is called not having fought a war in two centuries. Egypt fell to the first serious attack since the kingdoms were unified some 2500 years earlier. The Hyksos took as much as they had the manpower to control.
Or perhaps the most obvious European example, professional armies beat citizen armies almost every time. The failures are so few they are legendary.
Pardon if I remind you the substance of your complaint is US military expenditures which is what paid for all those soldiers. I might also point out the land engagement was preceded by 44 days of 2200 air sorties per day softening them up mainly destroying the comand and control capability but also their resupply ability for things like food and water and fuel. 2000 of those 2200 were US planes. To bad our military is so much larger than all the rest and costs so much more that it invites criticism as unnecessary.
However the exchange ratio was due to the tactics of Gen. Schwartzkopf whose combat experience was in Vietnam. If I might humbly say I saw what he was doing before he sprang the trap. The troop ratio was insufficient for victory with a frontal attack. To successfully attack a fixed position requires at least a three to one superiority. However that does not apply to a hungry, dehydrated army that has been baking in the day and freezing at night for weeks. 2200 sorties a day for 44 days does wonders to improve the odds.
In 1812 you folks never ventured south and the Brits screwed up royally in New Orleans. The Mexicans were always on the run. The Spanish didn't land. You must be referring to the Civil War. But I do not see where it is fought has anything to do with combat experience. For the record it was in Cuba where the citizen armies kept getting their asses kicked, Teddy Roosevelt notwithstanding.
Maintaining a decent military in a constant state of readiness prevents anyone from thinking of invading. But you Canadians keep winning war games so perhaps we should militarize the border. What do you think? Maybe just demilitarize you folks before it is too late.
If all Canadians exhibited your knowledge of war there would be nothing to be concerned about. I am thinking of those who have had military experience. They might constitute a future problem.
Jews stole the land. The owners want it back. That is all anyone needs to know about Israel. That is all there is to know about Israel.
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Did you ever read, The Mouse that Roared?
Jews stole the land. The owners want it back. That is all anyone needs to know about Israel. That is all there is to know about Israel.
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Your issue was cooperation. I gave the largest example of cooperation that is related to this discussion. I gave the reason why it has not worked. That hypocrite has always carried most of the weight. But NATO did go into Afghanistan with us in a belated repayment for cutting Bosnia and Serbia out of Yugoslavia which for some reason was a big thing for the EU. I guess they were showing they didn't really hate Muslims. The US is still facing off with Russia on recognizing Bosnia. Should we drop that and let the FRY reclaim it? Like Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia was another capricious creation of Brest-Litvosk.
Something like 80% of US oil comes from the western hemisphere. Keeping mideast oil flowing is for the benefit of Europe and Asia. Not selfless. We have to keep our customers prosperous enough to buy. Watch the EU v Iran oil dance over the next couple weeks.
I must have missed the wars over drugs. The Afghanistan invasion was facilitated by supporting opium dealers whom the Taliban had put out of business. Russia is rightly pissed.
As to decriminalization, let Canada decriminalize heroin and cocaine first so we can see how it works out for you. I'm willing to take notes.
We are self-sufficient in grass if that is what you mean. It is our largest cash crop. You folks can't grow your own? I'm sure we export a lot of amphetamines to you folks. You don't like the quality?
Please stop pretending it only means grass.
Jews stole the land. The owners want it back. That is all anyone needs to know about Israel. That is all there is to know about Israel.
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Back in 1978 I was in the premier course for up and coming hot shits in DOD. That is where I was told it existed and from the lecture that followed I had no reason to doubt it. There was probably a footnote in the handout citing it but that is long gone. I doubt strongly it was a separate law. I expect it was part of what today we would call a Defense Authorization Act. I have no idea what an equivalent bill was called back then. And it was probably nor more than a paragraph in a foot thick law. They were a lot thinner back then.
Wish I could help. Should you ever find someone who can cite it, let me know. Now that I think about it, I was "promised" career long support from the college. Let me see if I can figure who to contact and see if it applies to folks who bailed before becoming an official hot shit. Defense Systems Management College at Ft. Belvoir Virginia if you want to see if they will respond to civilians.
Remember anti-war is not a goal. Anti-aggressive war is the right thing. If you would have peace prepare for war is as true today as it was in Rome. The issue is stopping politicians from treating the military as a poltiical instrument save as a last resort which is what Bismarck meant by that line about war being an extension of diplomacy. The Afghan war was an exercise in domestic politics not a matter of national interest.
Jews stole the land. The owners want it back. That is all anyone needs to know about Israel. That is all there is to know about Israel.
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That's a shame. Due to the arms embargo the South African arms industry dramatically improved the standards for weapons quality and innovation from everything from shoulder fired weapons up to artillery. APC's, etc. SA military hardware is top notch and with few exceptions I would prefer it over American equivalents any day of the week.
The Apartheid era SADF was a force to be reckoned with, ( despite racial inequities ) and trained their multi-racial military to a much higher standard than today's examples. What the f**k happened ?
The SADF was merged with "umkhonto we sizwe" the ANC's armed wing during apartheid. Untrained people were put in command positions. One day the SADF was fighting umkhonto we sizwe (ok it was more Angola we were fighting at the time, that is an interesting war, the Angolan bush war btw) the next they were merged into one force, a lot of people didn't like it understandably. Pretty much everyone who knew what they were doing left (either because they didn't like answering to blacks or because they didn't like how the military was being handled or whatever). At least this is what I have heard, never researched the matter much. Why do you think a lot of these mercenary groups have lots of south Africas in them.
On our hardware, yes some is very good, not tanks and things like that we are basically still using WW2 era tanks (centurian modified called the olifant). But even the good stuff is becoming a little dated but still effective. What most of it would have been designed pre 1980s, its a long time. Also a lot of it is apparently not in very good condition anymore. But it is good enough to deal with our neighbours should someone go insane.
I can sit and say its a pity the we don't have the military we once did but I cannot help but think so what? Who are we going to fight anyway? Zimbabwe? Namibia? Botswana? Mozambique? None of the countries around us are even slightly a threat and any country that can afford to fight a war from across the sea is going to roll over us anyway. Besides our government is to useless to actually stand for anything. Look how long we have let the Zimbabwe situation spiral out of control when it was in our power to prevent that. Hell we could have stopped that without military intervention. But no we don't want to go against our old friend uncle bob.
Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
No animal shall wear clothes.
No animal shall sleep in a bed.
No animal shall drink alcohol.
No animal shall kill any other animal.
All animals are equal.
Ability to project naval force beyond territorial waters, negligible.
Ability to project land forces against any country but the US, only if it gets a lift.
Conclusion, even Iceland is safe.
Jews stole the land. The owners want it back. That is all anyone needs to know about Israel. That is all there is to know about Israel.
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Why is there a question? He does not have investors. His "people" still have nothing. A $70 spread would not cover shipping, shelf space, sales commission, profit and a mess of little things that add up.
It is also what I said about China manufacture. Even if made here it is near entry level assembly. He could not have paid much. As I also said, with a successful company and foreign manufacture well paid workers would be needed to manage the company. He passed up the well-paid workers too.
He could have proposed selling through Amazon or something like it direct from the factory but that would only work if priced well under the competition, in this case something like selling at cost.
Jews stole the land. The owners want it back. That is all anyone needs to know about Israel. That is all there is to know about Israel.
www.ussliberty.org
www.giwersworld.org/made-in-alexandria/index.html
www.giwersworld.org/00_files/zion-hit-points.phtml
You mean like the former Executive Outcomes ? ( now Sandline International ) Incidentally the much maligned mercs were a racially integrated fighting force whose main requirements were that volunteers possessed courage under fire and battlefield proficiency. Of course the majority were from elite units to begin with and as such were already a cut above the average soldier.