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What in the freshest of fresh hells is this bullshit?
This is the moment of the Lieutenant Colonels.
I helped edit this super cool story of a dude from India who wrote his name on Egyptian tombs 2,000 years ago! 🏺🧪
A lot of these troops were in Italy as part of the Afrikastau I believe. Air force can quickly be reallocated. I would also expect the Italians to have substantial additional resources to throw at it and to have more of a fight in them. Plus your logistical base is just so much weaker.
The Germans lost about 100,000 troops, hundreds of airplanes and tanks in Tunisia. In this scenario all of these could have opposed a landing in Sicily so I would expect that to have gone very badly. @ima-naval-history.bsky.social and @mike-bechthold.bsky.social may have views.
Well the thing is that the Israelis have said they will kill any new leader. Which kind of kiboshs the ‘someone the alliance could negotiate with’ idea. Trump’s current demand for ‘complete surrender’ may just be his acceptance of that fact. There’s no Venezuela solution here.
TL/DR: War requires attention to detail and seemingly mundane work saves lives and prevents civilian casualties...and all the pull-ups and warfightery nonsense in the world won't replace that or cover up for its failures.
Set aside for a minute the stupidity of starting this whole war (we'll come back to it)
This strike on a school shows why war is serious business for serious people.
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Called that one four days ago.
Least surprising news of the day.
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Nailed it
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a black and white British Rail poster titled "The argument for electrifying our railways, will become clearer in time." with four panels showing scenes from 1978, 1987, 1995 and 2005 with oil running out over that period
"The argument for electrifying our railways will become clearer in time."
British Rail, 1979.
No jury would convict
In reality, between structural challenges of the route, the Regia Marina's escort capacity and the pesky interference by the Royal Navy and the RAF, the Germans never got on top of the route management and instead the 'Afrikastau' (Africa traffic jam) was created. This came in handy in November 42.
On 7/3/41 Kriegsmarine Captain Both, who had been one of the officers inspecting the North Africa situation a few days prior reported back to OKH, arguing that there was a need for centralisation of supply and that the overall handling of the route could be improved. @rjhammond215.bsky.social
On 7 March 1941 Ariete was for the first time subordinated to the Afrika Korps, and Fliegerführer was told to 'do sumfink' about the Royal Navy. @rjhammond215.bsky.social
@apiln.bsky.social don’t think she can park there?
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New ‘why didn’t the US Army prepare for Bocage in Normandy’ just dropped.
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‘Well why don’t you fucking cook for them then’ would have been her response in my case. 😬
Civilian clothes is fine. Lack of a distinct insignia identifying him as a combatant is not. ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treat...
Sending a warship called HMS Prince of Wales east of Suez into an active battlefield because of some vague deterrent mission always goes well
See also: Brexit.
Look, we’re not going to agree on this. You want to tell yourself that a system where a party with under 35% of the vote ends up with over 60% of seats has anything to do with “democracy” you’re welcome to do so. It’s a mostly free country. Have fun.
I think the whole period since 2016 shows up the FPTP = stability argument very badly. UK politics has rarely been less stable even when the governing parties had substantial majorities.
Chat, is this bad?
I read that as ‘Douchowitz’ and it works for me.
Tyre guy?
