What was the apocryphal saying about rifles that is attributed to Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto? "You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass." Putin is learning a lesson about another apocryphal Yamamoto quote, since he has indeed "awakened a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve."
Bob
"It is said, 'Go not to the elves for counsel for they will say both no and yes.' "
Frodo Baggins to Gildor Inglorion, The Fellowship of the Ring
Yes applies perfectly in this case!
These images made me smile today of the latest Revell model and Poo container lol
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'Tonight my men and I have been through hell and back again, but the look on your faces when we let you out of the hall - we'd do it all again tomorrow.' Major Chris Keeble's words to Goose Green villagers on 29th May 1982 - 2 PARA
People fighting for their turf will show a tenacity far in excess of those trying to take it, Russia may win in the long run but in the end there will always be the issue of resistance groups wrecking the plans of the invaders.
The worrisome thing is if China does aid Russia then as stated it will surely test the resources of the NATO aligned countries seeing as India decided to abstain from the vote when her army is listed as 3 million strong with China at 2.5 million million and lurking is the "Rocket Man".
The tactics now being used by the soviets in targeting food storage places apparently they have written of a place that had 50000 tonnes of food stuffs stored if the press is to be believed either way its directly aimed at the populace sorta like a certain project called Point Blank in WWII;
"The primary object of the 'Pointblank Directive', which was formally issued by the Combined Chiefs-of-Staff on 14 June 1943 to supersede the 'Combined Bomber Offensive' directive, was to organise British and US strategic bombing efforts to ensure 'the progressive destruction and dislocation of the German military, industrial and economic system, and the undermining of the morale of the German people to a point where their capacity for armed resistance is fatally weakened".
In basic terms carpet bomb everything to such a degree they the people will lose faith in Hitler and the war you only have to look at Dresden and Hamburg both of which were a terrifying show of firestorms and its demoralising aspect on the civilians.
In basic terms carpet bomb everything to such a degree they the people will lose faith in Hitler and the war you only have to look at Dresden and Hamburg both of which were a terrifying show of firestorms and its demoralising aspect on the civilians.
My understanding is that Pointblank wasn't the strategic order under which civilian blanket bombing was carried out. It was instead the under-girding for D-Day, designed to destroy Germany's ability to wage war at the industrial level and to force Germany to commit its fighter strength to the homeland and to destroy as many fighters as possible in air warfare so that air superiority could be achieved over the landing beaches in Western France. From Wiki: "Along with the single-engine fighters of the CBO plan, the highest priority Pointblank targets were the fighter aircraft factories since the Western Allied invasion of France could not take place without fighter superiority... Among the factories listed were the Regensburg Messerschmitt factory (which would be attacked at high cost in August), the Schweinfurter Kugellagerwerke ball-bearing factory in tandem with Regensburg and (attacked again in October and also causing heavy USAAF losses) and the Wiener Neustädter Flugzeugwerke (WNF) which produced Bf 109 fighters."
The carpet bombing scheme was the strategic concept of Air Chief Marshall Sir Athur Harris of RAF Bomber Command. He was a disciple of Italian General Giulio Douhet's dictum (also followed by the Luftwaffe) that the point of strategic bombing was to foment panic and rebellion in the populace. From the accounts I've read, including two authoritative British accounts, the USAAF was an unwilling partner to civilian bombing, dragged there by political pressure.
Bob
"It is said, 'Go not to the elves for counsel for they will say both no and yes.' "
Frodo Baggins to Gildor Inglorion, The Fellowship of the Ring
This is a good video. Anyone would think that an occupational hazard of being a member of Russia's armed forces is to have one's armoured fighting vehicle "pinched" by a local farmer.
. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass." Putin is learning a lesson about another apocryphal Yamamoto quote, since he has indeed "awakened a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve."
PM
Originally Posted by mrclark303
