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Britain
Churchill's secret band of fearless warriors.
2015-11-04
[Mail On Line] One of the most extraordinary stories of World War II is also one of the least commonly known, that of a small band of men charged by Winston Churchill himself with carrying out 'a butcher-and-bolt reign of terror' behind enemy lines. Often dosed up on powerful amphetamines, they were an eclectic, wildly unconventional bunch, one of whom favoured the bow-and-arrow as his weapon of choice.

They went initially by a prosaic name, Small Scale Raiding Force (SSRF), operating under the aegis of the secretive Special Operations Executive, which had been formed in July 1940 to carry out, in Damien Lewis's words, 'operations seen as too politically explosive, illegal or unconscionable as to be embraced by the wider British establishment'.
Posted by:Besoeker

#7  Is this Artic supposed to be an indirect allusion to the Bammer recently sending 50 US Elite SpecOps into Syria and Iraq ...

* ZERO HEDGE > US SPECOPS ALREADY ON THE GROUND IN SYRIA, SOURCES SAY, AS RUSSIAN TROOP PRESENCE GROWS TO 4,000.

Tote US Military Presence in Syria at NEAR-PARITY to Russia's 4,000???

VERSUS

* MEMRI.ORG > FORMER "AL-SHARQ AL-AWSAT" EDITO AL-RASHED ON US DECISION TO SEND [Commando = SpecOp]FORCES TO SYRIA: WHAT CAN 50 AMERICANS DO AGZ 30,000 ISIS FIGHTERS, 100,000 FIGHTERS UNDER IRANIAN DIRECTION, AND 30,000 RUSSIAN TROOPS"!?

ARTIC > AL-RASHED = says that POTUS Obama = Washington Dc is NOT SERIOUS about ...
> Confronting the ISIS/ISIL.
> Rejection Russian Expansion.
> Seeking ways to finally end Syria's internal Civil war.
> BETTER FOR POTUS OBAMA TO SEND NO ONE OR TO DO NOTHING, THAN TO NOT SEND ENOUGH OR TO NOT DO ENOUGH???

2015 POTUS OBAMA = 1990'S POTUS BILL CLINTON [-ISM] = wants to make it absolutely positively categorically undeniably ... ...@etc. clear that,
D *** NG IT, DOING LITTLE OR NOTHING ACCOUNTS FOR SOMETHING"!

Espec when protecting the GOP Reagan-Bush41 economy while giving credit for same to the DemoLeft???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2015-11-04 23:05  

#6  They could barely hit a town with bombers much less a train.
Posted by: chris   2015-11-04 19:44  

#5  If the Allies hadn't bombed Hamburg and Dresden (the latter has been grossly exaggerated) you would fault them for not doing what was needed to have Auschwitz closed.

The allies could have bombed the trains that delivered victims to the death camps. More could have been done. Hind sight is 20/20.
Posted by: Sven the pelter   2015-11-04 17:12  

#4  Yes,P2k, For every year of the Vietnam war, 40,000-odd civilians died on US roads. Most folks can't do the math.
Posted by: Bobby   2015-11-04 15:02  

#3  My point is how people quibble about 1s and 2s being killed in war, but don't flinch when using technology that they know will take hundreds+. It's war and then on an industrial scale. Somehow the individual kill is personal, but the group is not, all around the same overall event.
Posted by: Procopious2k   2015-11-04 09:12  

#2  If the Allies hadn't bombed Hamburg and Desden (the latter has been grossly exaggerated) you would fault them for not doing what was needed to have Auschwiz closed.
Posted by: JFM   2015-11-04 08:45  

#1   'operations seen as too politically explosive, illegal or unconscionable as to be embraced by the wider British establishment'

Didn't seem to bother them to do whole cities like Hamburg or Dresden. I guess the line attributed to Stalin applies - The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-11-04 07:52  

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