I do remember you GFO!!!   where you been?

it changes every now and then

dang now I need to hear Bold as Love again

were on the hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiighway to hell

hey saddam lost 100,000 guys in 1991 and survived

US could not sustain, politically, the loss of 10,000 troops.

[i must have indigestion]

made me choke

wb Mishe!

Nukes have to be armed first, in 1957 a malfunction in a bombbay door of a B49 dropped a fission bomb on North Carolina. It didn't go nuclear.

why?

I've posted about five times over the years the study taht said 6 Hiroshima sized bombs in a daisy-chain would produce blast pressure over a 300 sq mile area equal to what a 50 megaton fusion bomb would do in an area of 50 sq miles around ground zero.  Plus the thermal energy would incinerate much of the city even if the blast prevent combustion.

Nah you be fighting for 200 years as to whether the head of the commonwealth is an aussie or a kiwi

crackberry is a god!

well if you have a PC to back it up on found that out the hard way

wait

gotta run

the crackberry is calling

Yes Master

BEF and the French in 1914 did not have the artillery to match German units, Germany forgot about getting enough ammo without rail to its armies in the fields to make that count.

Yeah, BEF won most engagements and retreated because of what happened around it in 1915.  BUT they couldn't keep soaking up losses and fillign gaps with Indian troops, that's why Kitchener started reforming the Army and calling for mass conscription

The German Army in 1918 would have kicked the ass of the German Army of 1914 division to division or corps to corps, by 1918 they had more MGs and more artillery than jsut riflemen

who'd you check with?  US Navy or the contractor?  I think that's dead, with a Democrat president house and senate

It's hard to compare the 1989 Army to the modern Army. Because while the Cold War army was 2x as big in numbers it wasn't all combat forces, one of the downsizing methods was to shove support arms like MPs and mechanics into the Reserves and National Guard.   In the Cold War National Guard untis would fight on the front lines.

But it had nearly 2x as many armor divisions and 4 airborne instead of the 2 we have now, and about twice as many infantry divisions.  The main unit of military deployment was a division, not a brigade.   And they were kept 2/3 strength, if the Big One started they'd put 1/3 newbies into the ranks so they learnt among regulars, instead of creating 100% newbie divisions.

Fact is your "professional" force is looking like the BRitish Army in WW1, a colonial force capable of beating up less armed and disorganized outfits but incapable of sustaining losses from combat from an equal force, win or lose.  We supposedly learnt from their troubles.  Not anymore.