On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 02:54, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 12:39:24AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > And at that, Canadian Forces are basically the British Forces but > > > flying the Red Ensign instead. I took history from a US perspective, > > > and I still see that the British more than held thier own. America > > > > If the US hadn't chipped in with more ships and long range bombers, > > all the valiant work of the RN & RCN would hae come up short. > > I'm not entirely convinced of this, to be honest with you. If we were > talking the RA and RCA in northern Europe, you're right. But even > then, the RCA and RA was leading us into battle (not that this is a > bad thing, the RA is more local and probaly had a slightly better idea > of the local geography than the American and RCA soldiers did).
By RA, you mean RAF? > > All during the CW, the French steered a much more independant military > > course, having their own, non-integrated nuclear policy, and not > > being fully integrated into NATO. > > Hence bombing whales with nukes in the mid-Atlantic clear into the 1990s. WTF?? -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ ron.l.johnson | | | | "For me and windows it became a matter of easy to start | | with, and becoming increasingly difficult to be produc- | | tive as time went on, and if something went wrong very | | difficult to fix, compared to linux's large over head | | setting up and learning the system with ease of use and | | the increase in productivity becoming larger the longer I | | use the system." | | Rohan Nicholls , The Netherlands | +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]