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There's only one zoo-qualified creature here. The rest of us are just trying to step around the turd piles it lays.
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There's only one zoo-qualified creature here. The rest of us are just trying to step around the turd piles it lays.



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Japan,
 
You have to understand that the little kiddies are getting exited now that AE is close, and raising a subject and views that dont fit their views is unacceptable to them.
 
I'm sure Forum like www.feldgrau.com would be better and provide a more knowledgable level of conversation.
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Japan,

You have to understand that the little kiddies are getting exited now that AE is close, and raising a subject and views that dont fit their views is unacceptable to them.

I'm sure Forum like www.feldgrau.com would be better and provide a more knowledgable level of conversation.






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Oh yes thank you very much sir.

At first I thought your post was like theirs, but I realized it is not, and are very very thankfull for that sir,

Looks like a serious, professional and interesting site, much Appreciated sir, thank you very much.


Also, Thank you to all of you who sent me PM's, I agree with you and will try to not care about "them", thank you all.




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Japan,

You have to understand that the little kiddies are getting exited now that AE is close, and raising a subject and views that dont fit their views is unacceptable to them.

I'm sure Forum like www.feldgrau.com would be better and provide a more knowledgable level of conversation.


Welcome to Feldgrau.com, a non political German military history research site online since February of 1996.

The focus of Feldgrau is on primary and secondary research regarding the technical, organizational and operational details of the German armed forces between 1918 and 1945. Feldgrau contains over 10,000 pages of information and is growing larger every day.



Oh yes thank you very much sir.

At first I thought your post was like theirs, but I realized it is not, and are very very thankfull for that sir,

Looks like a serious, professional and interesting site, much Appreciated sir, thank you very much.

Also, Thank you to all of you who sent me PM's, I agree with you and will try to not care about "them", thank you all.

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and will try to not care about "them"
Great movie. That's the one where Patton and MacArthur join forces to root out the giant nuke-test mutated ants from the Los Angeles sewer system and find themselves trapped in a Japanese internment camp, where the Russian army, fresh from single-handedly winning World Wars I, II, III, and III 1/2, has to rescue them.

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a pitbull?

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Pit bulls don't kill people . . . apathy kills people.
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pitbulls kill people's sanity......and TV remotes.

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A pit bull in a house
A pit bull hunting grouse?
 
A pitbull with remote
A pitbull won't be smote.
 
PitBulls by the lake
A PitBull ate my rake.
 
My PiTBuLl is JUST GREAT! [:D]
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Yes,

there are plenty of good forums for those who prefer to glory in the skill of leaders and soldiers that fought in the name of honor or country for some of the most brutish, foul governments mankind has created. This is a game forum, and while playing the game, if you wish to imagine the IJN is fighting a war with honor and a generally positive purpose, fine. And if you do the same thing while playing other games as either Germany or Stalin's Soviet Union, fine. But when you are not playing, I hope you can step back into the reality of 1941 (and out of your current views on the U.S., the UK, etc.) and see these nation-states and the men who fought well for them for what they truly were--purveyors of human misery on a enormous scale for personal gain at the expense of others. No matter how skillful, intelligent, successful or personally “honorable” Guderian, Manstein or Zhukov may appear in the narrow lens of military history, they deserve no recognition. They were all in positions to know well enough that they were facilitating mass murder and human exploitation on a mind-numbing scale, but they put on the blinders of military duty. No truly great leader would do such a thing.

I grew up fascinated by men like Guderian. I met someone who claimed to be a relative of his many years ago. She seemed embarrassed at the time. After years of experience in combat, study and international politics, I now understand her embarrassment. There is no honor in serving a wrong cause well.

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Japan,

You have to understand that the little kiddies are getting exited now that AE is close, and raising a subject and views that dont fit their views is unacceptable to them.

I'm sure Forum like www.feldgrau.com would be better and provide a more knowledgable level of conversation.
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A pit bull in a house
A pit bull hunting grouse?

A pitbull with remote
A pitbull won't be smote.

PitBulls by the lake
A PitBull ate my rake.

My PiTBuLl is JUST GREAT! [:D]

Hey!.....Yellow Dogs are great too!!!!!! <sniff>........stupid pitbull.....i was here first!




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Poor doggage... Really been muscled aside by the Dumb-bull...
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Patton was a corp and army commander whereas MacArthur was a theater commander. (a very big theater) There is a hell of a difference between the two. For all their faults both were good a what they did. However, I don't think many would have considered Patton to be the kind of man to command a theater.

For that reason there is not much of a comparison. It is like comparing the mayor of Nashville to the govenor of California. Both may be good at their jobs but that is about as far as it can go.

Yes, no good way to compare two different levels of command. As many military leaders have come to realize, you are only one promotion away from being incompetent.
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