In terms of men yes, the Eastern Front was collosal but the western allies were very much fighting steel not flesh. Look at how many panzer divisions were sucked into Normandy and were destroyed. Loo… (View Post)

At heart Hitler was a continentalist. He thought in terms of land warfare in Europe and had no understanding of Britain's sea power, trade links and the power of the empire. He had no plans for … (View Post)

There was a scientist in the field on recently who said exactly this. We have confused vastly increased knowledge of a problem (yes, we do still have a pollution problem with our water) to be conflat… (View Post)

Something often missed when people criticise the UK. Often we compare the best of elsewhere with the worst at home. And very often people report on holiday experience vs actually living somewhere els… (View Post)

I feel 'meh' about a lot of issues, but this is one that I would almost be prepared to actually protest about. Yes historically countries, nations, whatever around the world did bad things.… (View Post)