Recent content by Larrikin

For being racist? Islam is a politico-religious philosophy, not a race.

Garbage, all of the above. Islam is a politico-religious system with an intention of total world domination. If you want proof, go read the koran, the a hadith and the suras. Have you ever done that? Then follow the history of islam's expansion and they way it treated non-muslims anywhere it...

The LTTE introduced it, but they never used it in anything like the numbers muslims have. Beside's which, that war finished 12 months ago, and the LTTE never struck outside Sri Lanka. On a larger, more organised scale, Japan's use of kamikazes in WWII was the same thing. However, muslims have...

Salon are confusing the symptom with the disease. The disease is Islam, if it's not drones in Pakistain (intended) it's westerners in Arabia, if it's not westerners in Arabia, it's "uncovered cat's meat" in Bali. They will always find a surface justification, when in fact it's all laid out...

They went around Kiev, they didn't attack it. Tobruk in 1942 was not Tobruk in 1941. In 1942 it's defenses had been stripped to provide for the Gazala line, which the German's went around.

Oh, they tried, they just failed. And then they tried again, and failed, and then again. Then they tried to starve them out, which is a bit hard to do when the place has an open supply line behind it.

Fully manned? I think not. Eban Email, for example, was only at about 1/4 strength and on peace time rosters.

? It is quite possible for a Peer of the Realm to choose to run for and sit in the Lower House. And if Winnie got a Peerage it wouldn't necessarily make Randolph a Peer until his father died.

Exactly the point I'm making, aside from Sevastopol the Germans failed every time the were faced with properly manned fixed defences. If they couldn't go around a problem they didn't do real good with Plan B.

I'm not sure where you got that from. Leningrad was not only the spiritual home of the Glorious Communist Revolution, but an important strategic target. Not only does eliminating the Leningrad enclave shorten the German front, it also provides a major port to take a load off the railways...

About 4 months is all it should take you to crack the toughest nut if you are going to do it. At the other end of the line the never managed to fully crack the defenses around Leningrad, and that failure cost them big.

The one thing that has always intrigued me about WWII was how few times the Germans managed to fully penetrate a prepared and manned defensive position that they couldn't go around. IIRC Sevastopol is it, and that took them way longer than it should have.

It operated against night intruders on a regular basis, and there was a lot of light AA around German bases because Mosquitos and Beaufighters had a nasty habit of sneaking into the landing queues and shooting up both returning night fighters and their fields.

The Strait of Kerch is the other side of the Crimean Peninsular to Sevastopol, the Soviets very definitely didn't supply it from there. They did launch a counter offensive across it in the winter of 41/42 but it didn't make it as far as Sevastopol and was then thrown back.

What's a "Life Pier"? Is it anything like a life boat that doesn't actually come and get you? And WSC's peerage wouldn't necessarily have been a Life Peerage, he could have been given a permanent rise to the Peerage, after all, he is the grandson of a Duke.