Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "U.S. Army War College" channel.

  1. He's understating the cold: even in southern Ontario if you're fifteen miles away from any large body of water you'll see forty below, or at least you did in the winters of my youth. Leningrad may have been moderated by the nearby ocean, but Moscow is certainly as cold or colder than southern Ontario.
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  2. Famous sub rosa story in Washington. When Ed Applewhite was a comptroller of the CIA in the mid-sixties, his main job was giving MacNamara his daily briefing on "the numbers" that MacNamara had thought from his Ford days were the foundation for everything. At one point Ed famously asked "Sir, may I make a personal comment?" "Hunh, Yunh? Gmph" or equivalent puzzled assent from Macnamara. "Well, sir, I don't think those numbers mean what they seem to mean." That was Ed's last day of briefing Macnamara. (Applewhite went on to other, distinguished, careers of service, on some occasions displaying extreme personal bravery. A magnificent man, and a good friend. Serving his country well, even in retirement, right up to 2004, the last time I saw him.)
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  3.  @dogman0711  Paul and Red, You're both making a very stupid mistake. She's clearly a bright and very well informed young lady. Meself, I think that America's hope and security lies in the fact that the subversives like yourselves are so totally deluded, hence unable to function.
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  4.  @madcourier6217  That's an original one: blaming me for other people's YouTube comments!
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  5.  @madcourier6217  ​ MadCourier 6 My question to you exactly.
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  6.  @madcourier6217  Or vice versa.
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  7. Kennedy's "deeply isolated" United States of 1940 somehow seems to have had a quasi-colony in the Philippines and a massive military base on the former British colony of Hawaii. The first it had taken by war against weak Spain. The second it had captured through guile and the threat of force. A not very neutral sort of neutrality. Some might call it military imperialism.
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  8. Surely asking a Clausewitz or a Jomini about war is like asking a rat about plague?
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  9. I think the man is quite wrong to say that WWII was the first war in all of history where civilian deaths outnumbered civilian. The various Henries rampaging around France in the 12-14th centuries pretty much burned the place to the ground, with the result of total depopulation. More generally, throughout history life has been close enough to the edge that any war meant the disruption of markets, and hence of food supplies. Given even minor under-nourishment you then got mass disease. So basically I think the guy misunderstands that aspect at least of war.
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  10.  @indianpride8545  Three times, if you count the present ongoing situation...
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  11. But on the other hand, the microphone is badly placed and there's a random echo throughout the audio track. You shouldn't forget all the ums and ahs, either. Why do you leave them out, Titus?
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  12. wings
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  13. No.
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  14. All that Northern industrial superiority -- but artillery ran on gun-cotton, and an average shell ate 17 pounds of cotton.
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