Re: How not to design ships

On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 11:49:25 GMT, richardcasady@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Richard
Casady) wrote:

On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 11:21:29 +0100, Alan Lothian <alanlothian@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

Come to think of it, German horses on the Eastern Front in WW2 were probably
a bit nervous.

I believe there were about as many horses as men, at least before
attrition set in.

I was at college with a man whose father was a German horse soldier on
the Eastern Front. Basically the Germans got no further than they did
because they reached the limit of their logistics. That's the reason
pre-WWI German planners did not pursue the politically more viable
Eastern strategy. There's so much Russia to retreat through there was
no way to knock out a Russian army that was willing to give up
territory before your own forces ran out of supply. The father had
the good fortune to survive being a Russian prisoner of war. He moved
to the USA and practiced as an architect. If you ever saw one of the
original Arby's fast food restaurants - the one that looked like a
chuck wagon - you saw some of his work.

Bud
--
The night is just the shadow of the Earth.
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