Recent content by Sarariman

The Klingon language was never heard until Star Trek: the Motion Picture in 1979. I thought this film was horrid. Apart from the story being boring, I hated the uniforms, which to me looked like pajamas. While OP tells us Star Trek was never shown in the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War, the...

Considering that we have Holiday Inn and Holiday in Cambodia (of which I hadn't previously heard), I now realize the word can be used in U.S. English. I wasn't sure this was a commonly accepted historical document, which is why I asked for confirmation that the document was truly part of the...

I admit that, to my untrained eye, the documents linked to appear genuine, but can we be sure? Are you telling us these are official documents held at the National Security Archive of George Washington University? While we're on the subject of conspiracy theories, George Washington smoked dope...

I'm not entirely convinced Operation Northwoods was real, purely due to its use of the word "holiday," which is British English, with Yanqui being "vacation." The relevant document would have been reviewed endlessly, and I don't see how this could have been missed. The story is told yonder...

It looks like Hitler did have a son: Jean-Marie Loret, who died in 1985 at the age of 67. The mother was a 16-year-old French girl. At the time, 1917, Hitler was fighting in the trenches in France. OK, at the exact time, he was on leave. The son was given up for adoption. He fought the Germans...

This piece—https://www.academia.edu/4603307/An_Unflattering_Critique_of_the_U.S._Military—has an illuminating section on electronic warfare, one of the areas where the Warsaw Pact was perhaps better than NATO. Every piece of Soviet radio gear used to bear a plaque reading: “Every transmission is...

I'm not a Sealionista. That looks like a good thread, and I'll read all 39 pages of it just as soon as I become immortal. But like the episode I quoted, it mentioned the prospect of taking the Isle of Wight but dwelled upon it no further.

After posting, I realized it wouldn't have been such a good idea because the amassing of sufficient guys and materiel wouldn't have gone unnoticed and the path of the invasion would have also been obvious. Your post leads me to believe it wouldn't have got even that far. You raised the...

I've read a ton of the discussion here about Unternehmen Seelöwe, i.e. Operation Sealion, the proposed German invasion of Britain in WWII. The consensus is that it wasn't a realistic proposition: barges would have had a hard time making the crossing, no more than one wave could have been landed...

Whether the United States would sit Suez out is academic. Peter Wright, formerly of MI5, spent much of his memoirs, Spycatcher, complaining of his loss of pension upon transferring from the Admiralty to MI5. One very interesting thing he mentioned, however, was that the Soviets were ready to...

I think an actual coup was more likely: https://www.academia.edu/6748415/The_British_Coup_Conspiracy

It looks like Hitler had a son: Jean-Marie Loret, who was conceived in 1917 and ended up fighting the Germans in 1939 and later joining the Resistance. His mother told him his father's identity in the early 1950s, shortly before she died. Loret looks like Hitler and has the same blood group and...

Is an American defeat possible in the War of 1812? Actually, that's what happened: http://theoriesofconspiracy.com/2012/04/the-united-states-lost-the-war-of-1812.htm