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2015-12-01 Iraq
Abadi: Iraq Has Sufficient Forces to Fight ISIL
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Posted by Fred 2015-12-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Iraq 

#1 10,00 US Troops each to Syria + Iraq, as backed up or supported by a 100,000-man, mainly Sunni Arab Coalition force.

Read, NO 150,000 RUSSIAN TROOPS IN SYRIA-IRAQ = THE MIDDLE EAST.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-12-01 01:25||   2015-12-01 01:25|| Front Page Top

#2 What was it Napoleon said about morale to the material?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-12-01 01:33||   2015-12-01 01:33|| Front Page Top

#3 France had sufficient (actually superior) forces to fight Nazi Germany. What was lacking was will. See W. Shirer's "The Collapse of the Third RTepublic" for an arguably definitive account.
Posted by borgboy 2015-12-01 15:39||   2015-12-01 15:39|| Front Page Top

#4 For the elderly amongst us, I used to play play Avalon Hills war game,France: 1940, if played in a realistic rules way the French didn't have a chance and the British are very lucky to get away. The units morale was too brittle, the leadership lacking (with the notable exception of DeGaulles armour end brigade) to stand for more than a day or two. The French player can win by points, holding out a little in each scenario, but not in a real way. I would love to see that game brought into the computer along with panzer-bush, but keeping die-rolls and deep rule sets, just using the computer for the maps and bookkeeping.
Posted by Shipman 2015-12-01 17:03||   2015-12-01 17:03|| Front Page Top

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