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| I Think They Get It Now, Part Four: The UK. |
| 2018-06-21 |
| Read Part I, Part II, and Part III. The United Kingdom matters not simply because Great Britain is an island, or because the Kingdom has the naval power to defend its island, but because the Kingdom has sufficient naval strength to project power well beyond its island. That enables the Brits to pick the time and place of the conflicts they choose to engage in. Even if they choose poorly, they can always pack up, sail away and try again later. Clashes that leave most in ruin at most force an early election in the Kingdom. There are only two things that could undo this strength. First, the United Kingdom’s flexible strength could be overwhelmed by a more powerful navy. Since the only Atlantic Ocean navy that is more powerful is the American Navy, this is a low risk. Second, the United Kingdom could for whatever reason find its navy degraded to the point that it can no longer project power. And that is precisely the challenge facing the United Kingdom today. |
| Posted by: Herb McCoy |
| #7 Theres a 3rd way to lose a war...import your enemies under the guise of multiculuralism and flush the culture that made the empire down the toilet |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2018-06-21 16:22 |
| #6 Backing the Egyptians during Suez was US mistake though. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2018-06-21 16:15 |
| #5 Now it's the globalist protection agency, regardless of their crimes. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2018-06-21 14:12 |
| #4 Well that and the British spy service was practically run out of Moscow. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-06-21 13:44 |
| #3 #2...He was always willing to work with the UK - but he always took a very close look at their motives. Yes. Carlo D'Este has written on WW2 military history. Eisenhower "got rolled" early and often by the British staff in the planning -- they showed up with a well-developed British Plan that always seemed, on careful study, to put British Goals first. Their job, certainly, but he learned that Caveat Emptor! was the watch word. |
| Posted by: magpie 2018-06-21 12:05 |
| #2 ...I don't think it was so much that Ike hated his British counterparts (there's lots of evidence, anecdotal and on the record, to the contrary, although he never really did like Montgomery much at all) as much as he understood that behind everything they did was the need to preserve the Empire and all it stood for. He was always willing to work with the UK - but he always took a very close look at their motives. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2018-06-21 07:24 |
| #1 The anecdotal Story is that Eisenhower really grew to hate the British officers during WW II . He Considered them self inflated snobs. When he became President and he had the opportunity to stick it too them, he didn't hold back. |
| Posted by: Bugs Thud4877 2018-06-21 06:09 |