Brother, as someone who lives in the northern latitudes...its boring here in winter. This is what we have to do to spend the time until spring.

Nah. That ice is plenty thick - you could still, even with all those holes, land a decent sized aircraft on it. Only takes 1" to support a human (not that I'd recommend it) and there's probably a couple feet up there by now.

Goddammit.

Sorry, I was being somewhat unclear - I was referring to public perception. We could have dismounted the big red 1 and walked them in there, from the coverage, hardly anyone would have known. Which means it didnt happen.

Yup. However, we dont think critically about our wars round these parts. Hey, at least Schwartzkopf didn't try and depose the president. Once every 100 years or so is enough, really.

I don't disagree with anything you've just said. I also don't think the American public cares all that much about most of it.

Funny, I was going to say this, and then you were here! Thanks!

Two things

Love the bone. Nice post.

Gah! Thank you for making be glad to be an American today.

When looking at Desert Shield/Storm, people in the US are willing to look at it lightly for a number of reasons.

Yeah, I kind of want to hear your questions as well. One of the few things that a most people are pretty good with, keeping many, many guns near that fruit loop in the North.

You're probably right - but as we go further down the proverbial rabbit hole, there's a chance the Germans win (and a decent one). The German ability to use ground based aircraft against the superior English Navy would have been highly, highly helpful, as well as the ability to provide cover partway across the…

The problem is that insurgencies work best when the occupying force doesn't want to kill every single human in the area. Odds are the SS would have had no problem simply burning every Russian town between Kiev and Manchuria to the ground. Surrender or not, without the ability to maintain an effective field army,…

Guderian claimed that by not raising the Ukrainian flag over Kiev, the Germans lost the war. I, for one, am apt to believe him. Despite Hitler being a godawful tactician, the Germans still came DAMN close to winning the war in Europe - he was probably only one or two bad decisions not made away from it. We're all…

While this is excellent information...I was kidding.

After reading those excerpts, I have a massive need to go and kill something, anything, all the things!

Hold on a damn second. These are the Russians. They're supposed to have twice as many men as material and simply throw them away meat grinder style. STAY TRUE TO YOUR ROOTS, RUSSIA. PEOPLE ARE EXPENDABLE.

My local bartender is subjected to this at LEAST once a week.

Yup. I wish the cop wouldn't have done it...but...I TOTALLY get why he did. I probably would have too (but that's why I'm not a cop - they'd get sick of my shit, even in New York).