Posted on 09/05/2016 4:48:42 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
Eisenhower et. al. were sweating bullets over the weather forecast, and if they had known that the Germans had an additional division of forces in Normandy they would have probably delayed - and possibly ultimately abandoned - D-Day. And if the Germans had had Hillary-scale leakage of classified information coming to them - rather than quite the reverse - they wouldve had enough additional divisions in Normandy to make an attempted opposed landing there utterly unthinkable. Quite simply, too hard."
Thanks for the ping. Tolkachev was an anti-communist hero. I wonder if we caught the Soviet spy in the United States who revealed him.
If it was in the 1980s it was likely Ames that gave him up.
We had another alternative that was successful. It would have split Hitler’s forces in France.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Dragoon
Or Jimmy Carter. I would not put it past either of them.
Thanks. Yes, it could have been Ames.
“Hopefully we dont rely on the hubris of the past instead of the reality of today...”
Do you mean that we cannot just sit on our asses for 2 generations and expect the rest of the world to do the same?
You do realize that there’s a HUGE BUNCH of Cold Warriors on this site ready to follow Obama and Hillary into World War 3 against Russia. They WILL NOT appreciate your comment.
Mr. Cooper is full of it here. Much of the Iraqi Air Force was sitting on the tarmac at Riyadh International Airport during the Iran-Iraq war, How can your air forces be 'shaped and seasoned', when its materiel assets are sitting in the 'custody' of a third party?
How do I know this to be a fact? Simple, in 1981 I was working at Riyadh International, and had some of those same Iraqi Air Force planes, with Iraqi Air Force markings, parked right next to the hangar I was working out of.
So, go peddle your Bravo-Sierra elsewhere Cooper, I *know* better...
the infowarrior
Iraqi assets may well have deployed to other countries, but Iraq had the largest air force in the region, leading up to the Kuwait War. Was even half the Iraqi Air Force in Saudi Arabia? Highly unlikely, since we are talking of at least 400 aircraft/helicopters. That’s a huge logistical operation. And the fact is that the Iraqi Air Force was active in the Iran-Iraq war. If a large number of Iraqi assets were in the KSA, the Iranians wouldn’t have hesitated to strike the KSA, like they attacked tankers.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iraq/air-force-equipment.htm
Despite fierce resistance from Libyan air defenses, the Americans lost only one of their fighter-bombers.
The memorial service, and the missing man formation fly by, for the lost F-111, was held at Travis AFB, California, in 1986. I was the supervisor on duty in the control tower, during the fly by. It was solemn and impressive.
Thanks for sharing.
Military memorial events always put a lump in my throat.
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