Milsurp After Hours

I think a lot of "leaders" still think the way he did at the time....and in WWII... and down all the way down to today and tomorrow. Both Trump and Hillary are going to stamp out Isis and any number of "terrorists" when they get elected. They are going to do it in Syria and eight or nine other countries... just as the Presidents before them were going to stamp out extremists in fewer countries. After all...we have the upper hand with the drones, and planes, and bombs, have the cyber intelligence locked up, and we can make somebody else do the ground fighting too.....if we have plenty of "advisors" prodding them forward. We are going to wipe all terrorists out so they can't spring back up again and the world will be all peaceful for generations to come. Same thinking.

The Kaiser gives the troops a pep talk.

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I thought he started it Maybe I dreampt it..........

And after the troops in the trenches died, he abdicated and ran to Netherlands and lived to be 82......


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A hundred years ago today the 1916 Presidential election was nearing a close. Teddy Roosevelt, out of action as a candidate, still has some coal for the fire. He was beating the war drum as loud as he could and berated Wilson's "he kept us out of war" campaign slogan..
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Remembrance Ceremony at the British War Cemetery, Talence, Bordeaux. 13/11/2016 11:00 hrs

Sister ship to the Titanic had been turned into a hospital ship. It hit a mind with a load of wounded and sick. Amazing enough, after staying afloat for something less than a full hour the actual loss of life was actually less than the newspaper story. The loss in drowned was 30.

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Sobering statistics a hundred years ago. About like quoting stock market trend numbers.

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I never really thought about the daily losses, so I looked it up.......
The estimates of all soldier deaths in WWI run between 8 and 10 million. So divide that by the length of the war,
1564 days, and use the low figure of 8 million, it means that an average of 5115 soldiers died per day on all sides.
That's like killing most of the people in my town every day after day after day...........


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Meanwhile....back at the ranch.

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