debeda

Yep, theres always that

son of witless

Once again my magical powers of shutting up Liberals without trying have proven themselves.

debeda

It's your super power 🌞🌞🌞

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

And a fool to v**e repub.

son of witless

A Republican did not try to defund the Police. A Republican is not in charge of Rikers Island. A Republican did not destroy the Southern Border. A Republican is not presiding over the worst military blunder since WW2.

The Ms.

What did we blunder inWW2?

son of witless

Not being prepared for Pearl Harbor. Actually the Japanese didn't think up such an attack themselves. Torpedo plane attacks of that kind in a shallow harbor were considered impossible. The British proved the concept in an attack on the Italian Fleet in the Mediterranean. The Japanese were the only ones who took notice. There were warnings, but again everyone thought Pearl Harbor was too shallow for such an attack.

I saw a documentary on a British double agent who allegedly was the model for James Bond. He found evidence of Japan requesting information from German Intelligence on the British attack of the Italian Fleet. He reasoned that the Japanese were planning to attack Pearly Harbor. In the Documentary he told J. Edgar Hoover, but Hoover dismissed him. I don't know if that is true, but it made for good TV.

The Ms.

The Ms.

Good info! I didn’t know that Pearl Harbor was too shallow….. as always where there is will the bad guys manage to find a way🙏

son of witless

The arms race in the 1930s and going into WW2 is fascinating. Great Britain, Germany, France, Japan, and the US all were ahead in things and behind in others. Torpedo technology coming out of WW1 really took off later on. Each nation had it's own ideas. The Japanese had their type 91 torpedo, which they used at Pearl Harbor. They used different types for their Submarines.

Going into WW2 the US had an horrendous submarine torpedo. In the first year of the war, American Submarines attacked Japanese merchant shipping and a large percentage of the torpedoes failed to detonate. When Sub Captains reported this, they were told they were making excuses for failure. The Bureau of Ordinance said it couldn't be their freaking torpedoes.

Not only were they clueless that their torpedoes were crap, they tried to stop anybody who tried to test and fix them. Bureaucracies are evil.

The Ms.

America 1 Loc: South Miami

It appears you just proved a fool rather than disproved.

The Ms.

So we continue to do stupid…never learn! George Patton is my all time hero…. Love his style!! Alas, no more….

older and wiser

Couldn't agree more!

son of witless

George S. Patton was a great field general. However, he could not ever be a Commander in Chief because he had no political sk**ls. Eisenhower was a good Commander in Chief because the job required that. Keeping FDR, Churchill, Patton, and Montgomery on the same page took a special kind of diplomat. As far as I know Eisenhower never had a major field command so he is lacking there.

The only American General I can think of that had both field sk**ls and headquarters sk**ls is Ulysses S. Grant. Other Union Generals were as great in the field. Sherman and Sheridan were like Patton. Tell them to destroy the enemy and they did it. However, only Grant had the political sk**ls to deal with the DC bureaucracy and the powerful incompetent officers in the Union Army who couldn't be fired.

Grant was the only general who Abraham Lincoln 100 % trusted. When the back stabbers came to Lincoln to get Grant fired for his drinking, Lincoln said, find out what kind of Whiskey he drinks and I will send some to my other generals. When they kept complaining, Lincoln said, I can't spare this man, he fights.