Re: OT: Renaissance america

2004-12-10 Thread Roman Turovsky
I'm no military historian Obviously not. There's a lot of that going around it seems. but really, did the Russian accomplishment consist of anything besides simply absorbing the German assault (astounding as that may be)? A minor thing indeed, at the cost 20,000,000.00 lives on the

OT: Renaissance america

2004-12-09 Thread Roman Turovsky
I'm no military historian Obviously not. but really, did the Russian accomplishment consist of anything besides simply absorbing the German assault (astounding as that may be)? A minor thing indeed, at the cost 20,000,000.00 lives on the Russian side alone. More than 20 times the US

Re: OT: Renaissance america

2004-12-09 Thread corun
Roman wrote: Stewart wrote: I'm no military historian Obviously not. There's a lot of that going around it seems. but really, did the Russian accomplishment consist of anything besides simply absorbing the German assault (astounding as that may be)? A minor thing indeed, at the

OT: Renaissance america

2004-12-09 Thread Howard Posner
rosinfiorini wrote: The weird thing i learned recently is that the American president had a Jap= anese code decoded some days before Pearl Harbour and knew about the attack= but needed pretext to enter (highly unpopular at home) war so...he ordered= the radars at Pearl Harbour to be shut