Richard Walther Darré Quotes
The United States is at present so demoralized and so corrupted that, like France and England, it need not be taken into consideration as a military adversary.
Richard Walther Darré, 1895 –1953, German Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture, Nazi SS-Obergruppenführer, Speech to Nationalist Socialist Party officials, May 1940Speech to Nationalist Socialist Party officials, May 1940
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The French and English, with larger numbers and more experienced troops and officers, wanted the American units to come under the command or their officers and be integrated into the allied army. However Wilson established the tradition that American troops fighting abroad most always fight as an American Army under American Command. Although resented then and into the 21st century by America’s allies who are expected to fight under American command, it is a tradition that no American major politician has seriously challenged since then.
Much of the Chinese military had been distracted from military readiness in favor of political, economic, and ceremonial, activity along with extensive economic corruption. The People’s Liberation Army is a major political force in China which made this a very noteworthy chastisement. Leading Generals were with him however. See {632518}.
This was the first exposition of what turned out to be the winning Presidential Campaign strategy in 2004.
This was an official publication of the U. S. Army. The First World War had very little affect on future military preparedness At that time conservatives in Congress were very isolationist and military preparedness was not a high priority or even a significant political issue. The Democrats then were more supportive of military spending than the Republicans. It took World War II, for which America was very unprepared, to produce a change in public and political opinion regarding military preparedness.
This amazing quotation was made in 2011 when he, President Xi Jinping, and some other senior Chinese leaders embarked on a reform program of the People’s Liberation Army which with decades of peace had grown soft and corruption was quite prevalent. See also {632517}.
If a military loses a war, it has shown to be insufficient quality; if it wins, the evaluation is good. With all the talk about what makes for an effective and quality military, as the General states, it is war that is the final arbitrator. So ideally we never want to really know how good our military is.
Greek invaders were marching on Istanbul
Leval was an appeaser and a collaborator with the Nazi’s. He led the government in name but the Germans really controlled the country. His actions killed tens of thousands of French men and women by turning them over to the Germans. After the Germans were defeated in WWII, Leval was shot as a traitor by the Free French forces.
Richard Walther Darré, born Ricardo Walther Óscar Darré, was one of the leading Nazi "blood and soil" (German: Blut und Boden) ideologists and served as Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture from 1933 to 1942. He was a high-ranking functionary in the Nazi Party and the SS, and was the seventh most senior commander in that organisation.
