Comments by "" (@BobSmith-dk8nw) on "How to Build a Navy - Planning, Procurement, Production, Logistics" video.

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  2.  @Gustav_Kuriga  If I'm not telling a "story" I try to be as accurate as I can - but - no one is perfect ... The key here - in studying things - is to look at THEIR references. So - if you see something referenced on Wikipedia - go to the end of the article or note their references (you can click on them) - and see if you can get further information there. It's sometimes a little difficult - as if you click on a reference (footnote) number you may only get some short hand version of the citation and a page number. Then you have to scroll up through the references to the first citation of that source - and that - should get you the name of the book or article - which you can THEN - google to see what you get. Wikipedia gets a lot of crap from people who are being snobbish about it - but - that's just them being snobbish. It's a good INITIAL/QUICK reference - but - if you want to do serious research - you need to go to their sources and check them out - plus - of course - doing your own research. This may seem like a little bit of work but ... compared to me standing at the card (and I do mean CARD) catalog in the library in 1978, digging around with these 3x5" cards looking at their cryptic references - then - going to the stacks, finding the book, sitting down at a table and looking through it to see if it's worth checking out from the library - and if it is - taking it home and reading it - THEN - doing that AGAIN several dozen times ... THEN going through these Translations of Newspaper Articles ... I spent a year researching my Masters Thesis ... and then another year writing it ... with a type writer ... Computers and the Internet vastly speed up that process - which is why - all the great advances in human civilization - have come after a major upgrade in Communications - like the Printing Press that made possible such as the Gutenberg Bible. One word of warning though ... if you start buying books from other peoples references ... it can get expensive - fast ... Which is why supporting the guys doing these videos through Patreon - really helps. I'm just to poor to do it and I have to pay for my own books ... Which ... for the serious researcher - is why Libraries are still really important. One of the things I did - was buy a Life Time Membership ($600) to my schools Alumni Association - specifically because THAT would give me access to their library ... though I've not done any serious research since then ... There being no jobs in the field of History I - began studying technology and had a good career there. .
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  4.  @Gustav_Kuriga  It's hard to say how much of this is true and how much isn't. The thing about History is there are all kinds of things just like this - which really did happen - but ... there are also so many things which have been distorted. This is the reference I was able to find: " Iraq sent 6th Armoured Brigade, 8th Mechanized Infantry Brigade and 3rd Armoured Division piecemeal in the heat of the battle. 12th Armoured Brigade arrived on 15 along with a Special Forces Brigade (3 Battalions). This just added to the confusion. There was no planning of how to use these troops and no coordination. Iraqis were simply told to ‘go forward and fight’" https://web.archive.org/web/20090116071541/http://www.defencejournal.com/2002/nov/4th-round.htm O,Balance, Edgar. No Victor, No Vanquished: The Yom Kippur War (San Rafael, California & London: Presidio Press, 1978) p. 195 "No Victor, No Vanquished: The Yom Kippur War by Edgar O’Balance. A well balanced account of the events of 1973 war, not biased towards any party. O’Balance visited the battlefield three years after the war and met many officers on both sides who participated in war." - Hamid Hussain No Victor, No Vanquished: The Yom Kippur War Hardcover – June 1, 1991 by Edgar O'Ballance https://www.amazon.com/No-Victor-Vanquished-Yom-Kippur/dp/0891410171 So, while there is a reference to the basic point of my story, I do seem to be in error about the whole of the Iraqi contribution to the war being wiped out and have noted that error in the post above - but - I couldn't comment for sure whether or not individual Iraqi units - such as the unit in question - were wiped out - or seriously depleted. And - that is the trouble with incidents recited in YouTube posts - from memory. The thing to do with any YouTube post if you have a serious interest in it - would be to research it yourself. After all - I DID say it was a story.  .
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