Recent content by Melvin Loh

well, dude, the GCs are actually the ONLY international treaty which ALL countries in the world have signed- anyways, even if the Taliban or AQ guys aren't lawful combatants, they'd still be covered by Art. 3 common to all the GCs & Additional Protocols- which arguably weren't met at all by the...

So, WI the Pilgrims stayed in Holland in 1621 ? How would American settlement have looked with no Plymouth Colony ?

Exodusters well, at least among the black community, there was the Great Exodus to Kansas & Oklahoma under Benjamin 'Pappy Singleton during 1879-80- WI the Exodus had been bigger ?

After readin Leigh Sales' DETAINEE OO2: THE CASE OF DAVID HICKS, detailing the entire saga of the Australian Taliban during his incarceration at Guantanamo & the complex Geneva Convention-defying procedures under the US Military Commission system- WI the Bush admin had actually decided not to...

hmmm, maybe a radical Zionist/Communist/anti-Nazi assassinates the Fuhrer ? :)

well, Japan could, during the Philippine Insurrection, perhaps try to secrelty arm & support Aguinaldo's nationalist forces fightin the Americans, as part of their overall strategy. Hmmm, WI Jap agents also tried to subvert Buffalo Soldiers stationed in the Philippines by playin the race card...

no, mate, under the FRG's Constitution/Basic Law, I believe that nuclear weapons would be totally outlawed. On top of that, given Germany's sense of post-WWII collective guilt for Hitler & the Final Solution, the thought of being nuclear-armed would be anathema.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lipany OK, WI the Taborites under Prokop the Great hadn't grown over-confident when they saw their Bohemian league opponents' wagons withdraw, & decided to pursue so that they fell into the trap of a surprise cavalry attack ? Would the radical wing of...

mate, I reckon get ALL of the above, cept for DAYS OF INFAMY which is a bit dodgy IMHO for reasons which other posters have stated (btw, I didn't get into it as much either, truth be told). I've not read 1901 or 1942 yet, but I expect they'll be just as good as 1945. Likewise, I've only read...

for me: 1863- Fort Wagner SC- 2 weeks (observer for 54th Massachusetts' attack) 1420- Bohemia-Moravia during Hussite Wars-1 mth (participant on Hussite side in WAGENBURG formation) 1898- Cuba- 2 wks (participant at San Juan Hill as Buffalo Soldier) 1944- D-Day- 1 mth (observer at D-Day...

OK, how could the Union, after Appomattox, have instituted more war crimes trials for former Confederate officers, beyond Maj Henry Wirz as the CO of Andersonville POW camp ?

Just watched a documentary on the Milosevic trial on SBS TV last night- so WI he hadn't died just before he was concluding his defence in March 2006 ? Also, other related PODs: WI Arkan hadn't been assassinated in Belgrade Jan 2000 ? How would a surviving Zeljko Raznatovic have looked both...

Just also saw the 1967 war movie TOBRUK last night (starring Rock Hudson & George Peppard- before his fame as Hannibal of the A-TEAM)- which featured a covert mission to infiltrate & commit sabotga in Tobruk by British Commandos of the LRDG & German-speaking Jewish volunteers from the Special...

I reckon K IS FOR KILLING by Daniel Easterman is extremely morbid AH, together with any scenarios involving the necessity for Op DOWNFALL, such as THE BURNING MOUNTAIN, LIGHT AS A FEATEHR or 1945 (hmmm, btw, I believe that a great AH movie could be made from an amalgam of these different Op...

When I did some research on the ICRC last wk, there was 1 reference to how, during the inception of the 1st Geneva Convention in 1864, Gustave Moynier IIRC had proposed even back then, a permanent intl crim ct to prosecure the most egregious violations of the laws & customs of war, together with...