Re: shuttle disaster
On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 02:54, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 12:39:24AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > And at that, Canadian Forces are basically the British Forces but
> > > flying the Red Ensign instead. I took history from a US perspective,
> > > and I still see that the British more than held thier own. America
> >
> > If the US hadn't chipped in with more ships and long range bombers,
> > all the valiant work of the RN & RCN would hae come up short.
>
> I'm not entirely convinced of this, to be honest with you. If we were
> talking the RA and RCA in northern Europe, you're right. But even
> then, the RCA and RA was leading us into battle (not that this is a
> bad thing, the RA is more local and probaly had a slightly better idea
> of the local geography than the American and RCA soldiers did).
By RA, you mean RAF?
> > All during the CW, the French steered a much more independant military
> > course, having their own, non-integrated nuclear policy, and not
> > being fully integrated into NATO.
>
> Hence bombing whales with nukes in the mid-Atlantic clear into the 1990s.
WTF??
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