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I'll follow up later (pressed for time), but I'd like to get a discussion going on Lord Kitchener.
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"Every man has his weakness. Mine was always just cigarettes." -
No interest? OOE?"Every man has his weakness. Mine was always just cigarettes." -
OK lets see........arrogant ,over confident, uninformed, politicallly inept, shortsighted.................................thats for apetizers.Originally posted by Ironduke"Now we shall have ourselves a pell mell battle!" ......The Immortal Memory, Admiral NelsonComment
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Originally posted by Hawg 166
Agreed. But he did have a few good days.Rule 303Comment
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Taking Khartoum among them.Originally posted by Beaugeste93In the realm of spirit, seek clarity; in the material world, seek utility.
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WWI is what really did Kitchener in. The Dominions never took his commands seriously and in the case of the both the Australians and the Canadians refused his order to piecemeal their corps into British units (Kitchener's downfall as a military commander).
He was an industrial type general, preferring to fight a war of attrition, rather than of manouver. The Boer War saw his most brutal method of fighting attrition - by sending women and children into desease ridden concentration camps, very brutally denying the Boer Commandoes the logistics they needed.Comment
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If he'd stop pointing his bloody finger at me, I may consider defending the thourough-going bastard. And then can we get to "Bomber" Harris? :)Where's the bloody gin? An army marches on its liver, not its ruddy stomach.Comment
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On the plus side, great mustache!"Any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy, which qualifies life for immortality." ~ George William RussellComment
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