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    Paul H2

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    1. "...heroic cyber-war operations..." define? Paul
    2. Hello, Only a small correction. The first four Vorschriften für den Stellungskrieg aller Waffen: 1. Stellungsbau 20 Juni 1916 2. Der Minenkrieg 19. April 1916 3. Die Nahkampfmittel 7. Aug. 1916 4. Die Leuchtmittel 31. Mai 1916 .....were published under the 2. OHL during the battle of Verdun. After Verdun there was no Falkenhayn. Paul
    3. Ahh, As Chris said, seems this was discussed here a few years back: Different guy, but same topic: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=5135 Paul
    4. ...four senators — two Republicans, two Democrats introduced legislation to drop the new medal... Hope they put as much effort into avoding sequestration Paul
    5. I think this is interesting. My 2 cents worth--22 years US Air Force, 7.5 years deployed in war zones. The US awards system has some interesting issues--and has had so for a long time. In my experience the level of award was usually predicated not by one's proximity to combat, but the proximity of the recepient to the award writers during the deployment. I don't know how many times I saw people in support and admin functions awarded a bronze star when they guys out flying the missions came back with lesser awards. I remember one colonel, a deployed squadron commander--who refused to be written up for his bronze star. He said there was no way he was going to accept a higher level award when his guys flying combat missions were not receiving the same. We all admired him for that. We were always amazed at how many C-17 transport crews won distinguished flying crosses, which were very scarce in the AC-130 community. The Air Force in particular is extremely award heavy. If you fly, and have an active career, you retire with a chest full of medals that would put a Soviet field marshal to shame. These new medals are just a continuation of a system where everyone is to be recognized--which is the problem--decorations should be awarded for actions and performance--not proforma as is mostly the case now (and has been for many years.) Paul
    6. Chris, I'm going to give you Franz Kosar's artillerie books for Christmas next. Just remember to remind me around November! Pul
    7. I've never heard before that Nachrichten only referred to intelligence in WW2. What is the source of that? I've seen the terms used to mean intelligence in both wartime and even pre-war German documents. Here is an article by Markus Poehlmann on the German Intelligence Service during the Great War: He states that Nachrichtenoffiziere Der OHL were intelligence officers and Nachrichten-Referenten were signals officers. The article: http://www.intelligence-history.org/jih/poehlmann_intro-5-2.html Walter Nicolai was Chef des Nachrichtendienstes der deutschen OHL.. and he wasn't a communications officer Paul
    8. Chris, I've seen a lot of photos of French trenches at Verdun with those types of walls. Mostly in the woods on the north end of the battlefield. Paul
    9. Sounds like an OHL "spy" snooping around an army HQ- An intelligence officer. Can you give some more details Chris--do you have a name? Paul
    10. Chris, I checked my photos for Koblenz--but it doesn't seem to be in the collection there, nor Duxford--not that's too much help. Paul P.S. Now that I think of it is the museum at Koblenz still there?
    11. Here is another image from "Das Gerät der Artillerie vor, in und nach dem Weltkrieg."
    12. Interesting photo. The decision to bombard Paris was not taken lightly, and was only initiated after the city had been invested for four months--and after serious wrangling between Bismarck and Moltke. Once the Prussians started using their big guns the city surrendered in a few days. Paul
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