Posted on 09/05/2017 10:09:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
From the headline I thought maybe the plan was to get North Korea to stop their missile program by threatening to send Al Franken there (and making them keep him).
We really didn’t even “announce D-Day, as you and I know it, even after the landing. That is, Operation Bodyguard had an “enormous" fictitious army in England, positioned to attack Calais straight across the Channel. And great lengths were gone to to avoid tipping the Normandy landing site. Even after the D-Day landing succeeded, the fiction of the enormous army poised to thrust at Calais was maintained - it was never actually explicitly trumpeted as a hoax until after the war.Hitler was famously cautious about responding to the Normandy landing with an all-out redeployment of his forces in France - and that was because Patton’s huge paper army still “existed.” The thrust at Calais by Patton was supposedly to be on an Ostfront scale, throwing men away like the USSR did.
Of course the Germans gradually realized that Normandy was the real thing - but nobody said so out loud because to do so would have been politically incorrect. And being politically incorrect would get you killed. I’d give you a reference, but I read it in a book whose title escapes me.
They could have Samsung cellphones dropped on North Korea and set it ablaze from all the battery fires.
They do to people who’ve seen Aliens.
A famous line is,”I say we take and nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.”
“take off”
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