Recent content by Grue

Yeah, that's pretty egregiously stupid and plays into the problem of breaking SOD by people reacting in ways that just seem utterly implausible. The only worse offenders I can think of is the language patois of the trash people in the Walking Dead. Granted lots of stupidity in that series (of...

No you aren't the only one. I've only managed to plow the first three Emberverse (though I have scanned through a few latter titles to see how the trainwreck was going), so I don't have a comprehensive view on things. His writing is passable... I've read/enjoyed stuff from worse writers who...

Well the 1st division gets it's start from the infantry regiments transferred over from chasing Pancho in Mexico to France (they were some of the few 'ready' troops the US had). I'd have to look around to figure out how the US operated on the small scale but I suspect it was a combination of...

IIRC the Japanese submarine tactics were awful though. Unlike the Germans in the Atlantic (or the US in the pacific) they attached their submarines to fleets rather than independent command. Building more dreadnaughts (er capital ships) was limited by a series of naval treaties (Washington...

Hmm... well in the inter-war years the US Army hemorrhaged much of it's world war I experienced company grade officers anyway(who would be general officers for WW2). The US Army was ridiculously small for a country of it's size, but the USN was first rate for the era. Institutionally, the...