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...ch larger portion of their GPD for military purposes to build the kind of army that can deter Russia from attacking them.
I was surprised to learn how small percent of the GPD of these countries goe...
... of fear, distrust and even hatred.
In a way it is not very different from a child at school that being attacked or ridiculed time after time turns to violence and starts shooting at school. The thi...
...ffort to create nuclear weapons just to make our lives easier.
Even the option of letting Israel do the attack is not as simple as it seems because such an attack is bound to drive the whole area in...
... the context of the situation in Gaza. Claims are made as to the force that is exercised to fight off the attacks on Sederot and the area from Gaza and I thought it might be important to put things in...
... there is no clear separation between civilians and soldiers. It is much harder for a state do respond on attacks or even initiate attacks if the attackers live in the midst of civilians and fight sur...
...or example (and not meant to equate the two facts at all), Germany went to the trouble of faking a Polish attack on a Germany radio station as the pretext for the invasion of Poland in 1939. Why bothe...
... the plan called, did it have a color like 'Case White'?
What ships would have been involved in a naval attack?
What would the targets have been?
Any information would be welcome
Terry Sofian ...
What were the Allies' plans in 1940 before the attack in the west? Did the Allies ever seriously consider attacking Germany after the fall of Poland? Were they hoping for a split between Germany and t
If you extend your area of interest to the north, a Japanese submarine shelled Estevan Point (near the city of Victoria) on Vancouver Island.
Ingemar wrote on the subject of a Japanese submarine attacking 'Sydney:.
The book is 'Who Sank the Sydney', Cassell, Melbourne, 1981. Author is = Michael Montgommery, son of the 'Sydney''s navigator
...ake during WW2?
Luftwaffe's lack of heavy bombers? .Failure of Hitler to invade UK after Dunkirk? ..The attack on Russia? ...PH? ....other??
Rob Davis MSc MIAP Anstey, Leicester UK. 0976 379489 ab...
...rding to a website called threeworldwars.com, they believe or have evidence that Roosevelt knew about the attack on Pearl Harbor before it started. The story begins on September 1, 1939, when the war ...
...ld by Americans in the late 1930s. Under the ok of the US War Department.
Why were this factories never attacked?
Sources: USSBS, OMGUS
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...'t export to the USA to earn income and they bankrupted and massacred their European customers. They even attacked their biggest remaining customer in June 1941! After it all got sorted out things got...
...nd ground troops accompanying the fleet to occupy Hawaii right after they launched the surprise air-naval attack on the Pearl Harbor? If they had taken over and controlled Hawaii, it would have been v...
... from something that happened during the war? The Confederates were in that that location and held off an attack by a Union division....
...y during the war. Someone told me that Hitler feared Attatruk (if thats how you spell it ;-)). And didn't attack them. Were they under Nazi influence or what?...
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Is the attack on Pearl Harbor the single most important event that brought the USA out of isolationism ? What about policies (lend-lease to England during WWII) ? Any more events or policies
...lame both of these strategies could be mitigated somewhat in Grant's case by Lincoln's insistance that he attack at every opportunity & Hood's addiction to Laudinum (an opium derivitive) which he took...
...ion?
Also why couldn't Hans Luck get permission to repel the forces at Pegasus Bridge and then go on to attack the Americans on the beaches with his Panzers? Did he really have to wait for Hitler's ...
...and withdrawal in the face of the enemy
Seven Pines - his too-early start blocks a key road, delays the attack and prevents synchronization
Gaines Mill - sweeps the field late in the day after Hil...
...ho said that Cordell Hull, then Secretary of State, told him a week in advance that Pearl Harbor would be attacked on 7 December 1941. How he knew this isn't explained, and the reason he told it to th...
...what is in the material that was read. I expect that there will not be any references to the Pearl Harbor attack...
...olish. Rommel however had to retreat, but even in retreat he was still able to pull off a couuple of nice attacks on the pursing allies (Brits). Does retreating detract from a generals ability to be a...
...ll, inflicting 19% losses, but lost 8% himself.
Most of the lopsided results were the results of failed attacks, such as Corinth, Fredericksburg, and Cold Harbor.
Yes, Grant eventually destroyed L...
I am looking for information on coastal defence forts in Norway. Also Norwegian aircraft production prior to 1940. Any help would be apprieciated
...tes may be given. Moderators may waive this rule at their discretion.
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Lee preceded the attack on the Federal center July 3rd, at Gettysburg with a prolonged artillery barrage.
Had such a lavish use of artillery been a crucial part of any of his previous victories? I c
I just saw the movie Home Front about U boat attacks in the Gulf of mexico. I was wondering about the Shrimp boat owners the Government worried were trading with the enemy. I don't understand. Shimp b
...ago TODAY, the Japanese launched what is in my opinion the most merciless, underhanded, inexcusable sneak attack in the history of warfare. We were not at war with Japan when they bombed Pearl Harbor,...
...there do anything to stop these activities and especially did they try to apprehend the raiders after the attack? Or, did the British turn a blind eye to their activities out of sympathy for the Confe...
...em for WW2.
> > Montgomery's strategy was to make the Germans > > run out of resources by launching one attack > > after another on different parts of the German lines. > > This is called dispersing...
... example out there, maybe you would use the German approach, and have the MG-42 be the main thrust of the attack, supported by 2 BARS, 1 Bren, and the remainder M-1's. Lets not include MP-44's, since ...
...cond, the campaign leading up to Gettysburg goes much the same.
Of course Jackson would not hesitate to attack Cemetery Hill on July 1. Yet it is far from certain that an attack would have been succ...
hi i'm interested to know for how long london was attacked by the luftwaffe only during the battle of england or just at the end of the war in 1944 with the V-1 and V-2 Thanks Rosa Gonçalves
... tactics : The Soviet union invented the 'circle of death' . They also invented the 'false ram', where an attacking fighter would open the throttles and head straight at a formation bomber. The bomber...
OK, to add to this interesting thread;
Myth: The German attack in June 1941 took the Russians by surpirse. Truth: The Russians knew all about it and had a cunning plan to defeat the Blitzkreig.
Ac
...ose; the second certainly was not achieved in the case of the Battle of Britain, or in any of the ensuing attacks by Buzz-bombs or V-2s. The attacks seemed to have the opposite effect; they stiffened ...
... from Sept. 1939 to June 1941. During this time, Germany and the USSR cooperated with each other. Germany attacked Poland from the west, and the Soviets attacked Poland from the east. For all practica...
What kind of guy was ADM Lee? Was invited by ADM Spruance to attack Jap fleet with his battleships at night, planes to attack at first light. Lee declined, Japs got away. Spruance blamed for failimg t
...y Group at Caen), also the US logistics history makes it clear 21st Army group was expected to be able to attack on D+90 when the US forces would need around another 30 days to resume the attack.
Th...
...Harbor. Almost 200 U.S. Navy ship was gathered in front of San Francisco. From there they was supposed to attack. Now we come to something special, when Amiral H.E. Yarnell him self aboarded Saratoga ...
...pation of Huntsville in 1862, placed prominent local citizens aboard his army trains to discourage sniper attacks by Confederates. Can anyone confirm this, or cite a source for further info? Thanks......
...t spy in the German High Command was ever identified. It was he who allegedly game away the plans for the attack at Kursk or is this just another myth ?
Cliff Kennedy...
...ions of dollars of its property was destroyed. Huge armies invaded its teritory and a hostile naval fleet attacked its warships. The belligerents responsible for this warfare was the CSA, a fact well ...
In a skirmish at Leesburg, VA, on September 2, 1862, members of the 2nd Virginia Cavalry Regiment attacked and defeated Union troops of Major Henry A. Cole¹s Maryland Cavalry Battalion and Captain
... to bombard Washington D.C. while remaining far enough behind the lines that that Federal troops couldn't attack it.
From: http://www.nps.gov/vick/visctr/sitebltn/blizzard.htm
'The final type of c...
...l chain of Command, reached both Churchill and Roosevelt.
The two 'knew already of the Japanese plan to attack Pearl Harbour and wanted it to happen'. The reason?
At that time, about 80% of the Am...
Why didn't Hitler insist that Japan invade the eastern USSR after Germany attacked that country in June 1941? After all, they were members of the Axis. Japan and the Soviet Union certainly did not hav
...er because it's clearly based on hindsight. No one (FDR included) knew in advance what the results of the attack would be. If not for a lucky hit on the Arizona, casualties could easily have been much...
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