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The United States enter quagmire-of-its-own-making No 113?

The Germans had studied the 1812 French campaign in detail and came to the conclusion that it was the single file focus on Moscow that greatly complicated Napoleons campaign. So going with 3 Army Groups was not an accident.

The Canadians incompetence* would hinder any improvement in equipment. *In case you don’t get it. The Chinese did not use “human waves” in Korea. And if they had, Canadian machine guns and arty would have had a field day.

My relations with Leon Panetta were never comfortable. I had never been entirely satisfied withe the manner of CIA functioning in the operational areas. This had been true in Iraq and even more so in Afghanistan; an area the agency saw as "its turf". It operated independantly of both the State...

A Resturant in Islamabad. May 1 2011. Nargis Sethi, the Secretary Cabinet had long since accepted that privacy and family time were not two of the things that senior Civil Servants were expected to have in abundance. Still she was annoyed when a military officer in civilian dress showed up 20...

Even with all the years of investigations, inquiries committees and now memoirs, its hard to say definitively what exactly happened on that May Day. Certainly, one would expect that the unscheduled presence of the UAV would have not gone unnoticed by ISAF and the US Military. Yet there is no...

XI Corps HQ, Peshawar Cantt. 20:35 hrs, May 1st 2011. He was pissed off. Of that, anyone could tell. Or they would have if they had been around. In the event, there were only two other men present; both contractors who were doubtless being paid extra. No such amenities or bonuses would go his...

The last paragraph is anarchonistic. It would simplt start a tradition of lower ranking officer Coups. The country is fucked. The unity of the Army is....gone.

W for his many faults as a President was a consummate politician. In a way that Gore was not. I think he’ll still win.

*Amy.

Better chance of N Korean leadership quitting & joining an ashram in Hamburg. Any Winehouse was playing Russian Roulette with 5 full chambers. Rinse and repeat. The odds were against here lasting till 2018.

Oil prices rise spectacularly in the 1990’s a bit like they did in the OTL 2000’s. Western “Investors” don’t buy up enterprises on pennies to the dollar and then drive them into the ground fearing competition, rather they outsource manufacturing there likeceith OTL China in the 1990’s...

China is cut off from the entire sub-continent by big fucking mountains. Large parts of the Indo-Pak border are lines drawn on a map. None of Indians heavy armour formations are of any use on the China border. They all will be concentrated against Pakistan.

They did in 1965 and 1971.

....and open up the rests of Pakistan for invasion?