romad1

They did a bunch of those raids for classified materials like heavy water, radars and enigma machines without sacrificing as much as they did in Dieppe. I understand that Ian Flemming's job in Navy intelligence was based around one of those units. Someone should do a children's book on all the British intelligence agents who have written children's books btw (e.g., Roald Dahl, Ian Flemming)

The Dieppe raid was prior to Stalingrad, the Torch landings, the large-scale arrival us US strategic bombers to the UK, and the battle of Guadalcanal. I'm consider myself a very well-read person about WWII and didn't internalize any of that until I started watching the Youtube series World War II week by week. 1942 was the final year of muddling through for the Commonwealth. Part of the muddling through were Churchill's cigar stabs at the maps where he would ask for this or that "master stroke" which were possibly strategically smart but Commonwealth forces lacked the capabilities to actually make them work. Dieppe did provide a lot of positive lessons. One being that you needed port facilities and two that landing at a major port was likely too difficult. Hence development of the mulberry harbors. Another lesson was that the allies needed air superiority for the landings. Mountbatten was an upper class twit as portrayed in the infamous Monty Python sketches but not much could have helped Dieppe...in August 1942...when Germany still had an unbeaten army.

John Harbaugh

Except for the death threats from the Caesar Seyocks of the World, journalism is a never ending avenue of green lights.

W Bush and Dick Cheney called that NYT reporter a bad name and it wasn’t that bad. It’s fake decorum pearl clutching. Trump always did something worse.

He can’t set foot in the US, UK, Canada, New Zealand or Australia for a reason but he’d be given laurels in Russia

Carlson aka Fishsticks should not be on the air

Good move

Use the classified weather machines?

so stupid I don't mind posting this. I will say that we do need to start mobilization of US heavy divisions for Poland.

The UVA student body won't mind this one bit.

Yeah you can’t run a state on wishful thinking

The VA car tax has survived several GOP and DEM governors. i can’t think of a less popular tax for the average voter and this damn thing just won’t die.

Suspect

and remember this https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/12/20/media/robert-lemke-sentence-threatening-journalists/index.html

Put him on the radar of federal agencies for sure

My boys with a nice roadie!

Love that

The Aaron Rogers digs are so fun.

Putin Troll

there was a key

Detour for the ROMAD family to Orlando for the weekend. Driving down the main drag they have a giant complex devoted to the red, white and blue color scheme called "Machine Gun America" which appears to be the result of 20 years of GWOT/'Murica/neckbeard and I can only imagine the vapors and pearl clutching that visitors to this country experience when they see it. Of course, I'm sure the citizens of Ukraine wish they had more of that right about now.

Power, go-along-to-get-along, human nature. Its not surprising that human institutions are corruptible. The Disciples fell asleep on Jesus. They all have churches and cathedrals named after them.

Well, the military is far more openly gay

for sure