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Discuss @Thande 's latest article here
It certainly wasn't as strong as in the Cold War, but there was paranoia in the UK about sudden French invasion in the 1840s, then the later invasion literature and so on.The comparison with the 19th Century there is an interesting one. Particularly as people tend to assume that the latter just didn't have that feeling of ever possible war going on.
Personally I'd say it's an irrelevant question regardless because that's not the kind of war you're going to fight - and if you do, everything goes so it doesn't really matter.I'd also throw in the question of who would be sinking those US Carriers as the Soviet Submariners by the late Cold War at least lived in constant terror as they assumed more or less correctly that NATO ususally had a good grasp of where they were and they did not know where the enemy subs were.
Exercises are also really bad at showing what would happen in war time when people do that annoying thing where they move and cheat and take gambles or play safe depending on who is in charge.
Personally I'd say it's an irrelevant question regardless because that's not the kind of war you're going to fight - and if you do, everything goes so it doesn't really matter.
The "cruiser gap" story is amazing. I wonder if anyone has ever tried naming their weapons something impressive-sounding in a foreign language to do this delibertately?
I forgot you cancelled the one that was supposed to supplement the Charles de Gaulle, the one which would have been built to the same or a similar design to the two new British ones.Incredibly minor and pedantic correction time: it's not 'one of France's carriers', it's the only one since we retired the Foch and the Clemenceau.
I forgot you cancelled the one that was supposed to supplement the Charles de Gaulle, the one which would have been built to the same or a similar design to the two new British ones.
To forestall any disappointment, I did That Thande Thing where I underestimated how many words I'd need - so the next one only covers the Bangladeshi War of Independence, leaving the one after for the Falklands.I'm rather looking forward to the next in this series.