Ian, this is your board, and I am not going to waste either of our time pursuing a contentious thread that isn't going to convince either of us. If you want to interpet that as a win, knock yourself out. There were so many overt errors in your last post that even someone as long-winded as I am...
Everyone also seems to compare the Me-109T to the stringbags on the british carriers. Lets remember that those were the STRIKE aircraft, not the fighters.
Brilliant:
1) Until late 1863, there was no reason to assume that British recognition would matter, after that it was too late. Why would the CSA, thinking that such recognition wouldn't be important (believing that they would win) sacrifice something very important? You presume that the CSA...
The Me262 had such a high landing speed (and LONG takeoff runs while those turbines spun up) that it required ridiculously long runways to operate. Most of the 262s killed were the results of allied P-47s lingering over the airfields, then dropping out of the sky to pick off 262s using the...
Granted, I am no expert on the 109's navalized configuration, but if you strip off the naval gear, isn't this going to affect performance in a positive way? This is to say that using the 109s in a land-based mode, with the naval gear removed doesn't tell us much about how they would perform in a...
There seems to be the unspoken assumption that the navalised Me109 would be just as good as the conventional model, and that no compromises would be necessary. The history of the SeaFire (the navalised Spitfire) suggests that this might not be the case. The Germans had NO carrier experience, and...
That is how YOU define the south...that hardly means that this is the only way to do so.
If the south was propelled soley by the fear of the loss of this institution, how can you explain the fact that the vast majority of southern soldiers didn't own slaves, and in fact were often in...
True enough, Pershing wasn't an absolutist (Wilson was, but he was often open to being led to rationality) on assigning troops, but he was a bulldog when it came to the core principle. In 1918, when the situation was desparate, he still insisted on deploying the army as an army.
wkwillis: I personally witnessed a catfight between McCain and Kerry that came very, very close to descending to fisticuffs (personally, I'd bet on Kerry's reach over McCains strength, but not for a knockout...), and though you may be generous enough to forgive some of Kerrys remarks during the...
Brilliant:
1) Why would the south (pre-1864) make major concessions (and emancipation was a major concession...even in the north it took 2 years to consider it seriously) when they didn't think that they had to? Until 1863, there was a general belief that the war would be won, and that the...
The brits and frogs DID call for US battalions to be incorporated directly into their armies, and vociferously opposed the formation of independent American units. Their logic wasn't too bad, actually (corps and army-level formations required LOTS more men and shipping space, and both were in...
I dont' want to put words in Ian's mouth, but I believe what he is saying is that the GOP as a party is adopting more conservative positions over time, i.e. that conservatives, while not necessarily increasing in numbers, are increasing in influence within the party. There is some good evidence...
Aside from staff, nobody of any significance. Once the news of the strikes became clear (somewhat paradoxically) the place filled up with second and third tier staff coming into to 'man the bridge' as it were.
Now the Pentagon was a different matter....the place emptied out.