Cyril Falls Quotes
So long as large armies go to battle, so long will the air arm remain their spearhead.
Falls, Cyril. Ordeal by Battle. Methuen & Co., 1943.
New York Governor Hugh Carey made extensive use of state airplanes and was discovered to have 31 pilots on the state payroll:
The Egyptians had received the latest Russian planes and weapons and outnumbered the Israeli Air Force 3 to 1. Within a year, the entire Egyptian Air Force was virtually destroyed. See {606125} for his equally unrealistic assessment of Egyptian air defenses.
He was one of the last generation of military officers who did not have the education, training, and political sophistication to avoid picking one of the several factors for going to war, and making it seem that that was the most important or only one. Oil is always a factor in the Middle East, but there were other major causes for our going to war.
This appears to be the first public call for Anti-Ballistic Missile Weapons & Systems. To many it is surprising that in 1946, there would be concern about missile defense, however during WWII, the Germans, violating the laws of war, struck London and other English cities with V2 rocket—the first ballistic missiles. England had suffered many civilian casualties and missile defense was a high priority for them.
The Seals who conducted the raid captured all the computers and documents that there were in bin Laden’s compound.
The Christian Crusaders were considered particularly cruel and barbarous by the Muslims who themselves were quite barbarous. To this day, Middle Eastern Muslim parents who want to frighten little children threaten them that the “Crusaders” will come—“Crusader” has the connotation of “monster”.
See {637982} for one of the major reasons.
Cyril Bentham Falls CBE was a 20th Century British military historian, journalist and academic, noted for his works on the First World War.
