The Military Channel !

The American Propaganda Re-run Channel has been on for several years. They still run episodes from the old 'Wings' show from 2003. Over and over and over.
They ran the MG/FA episode of "Weaponology" last night. They seem to think the H&K MP7 is the greatest thing since sliced bread. It's a 4.6mm x 30mm smg. Uses steel bullets only. Made for penetrating body armour.
 
bingo1010 said:
what burns me is when they look at previous wars..ww1 ww2 korea..all they can talk about is themselves. if you didn't know any better you could swear it was them against everyone else. like normandy, it was them and the brits..not another soul on the beach!! according to them anyway.
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I couldn’t agree with you more.

Americans got into WWI and WWII late in the game. That’s why they got the tough beaches on D-day. Not like the Brits, Canadians, NZ, Australians, etc, etc, got it easy, but to watch movies you'd think it was the Americans kicking ass alone.

If you want to talk about kicking ass you could look at the number of German dead compared to the American dead while in combat with each other. The Germans revolutionized modern military tactics and the ratios of American dead to German dead are glaringly off balance. Even against the Italians the Americans did rather poorly.

Sure they (Germans) where lead by a mad man but they took on the world and would have succeeded if they hadn't fought on more than one front. But Hitler was a gambler, and gamblers gamble until they loose (ref: Soldat)

Germans where the first to use infantry in support of armor in the form of Blitzkrieg (lightning war). German armor would stop when infantry and artillery (still mostly horse drawn at the time) had to catch up, or supply lines got to thin to support the advancing Panzer Groupe.

In the end it was the lack of tracked vehicles (some would rightly argue) that led to the end of General Paulus (later promoted to Field Marshal by Hitler just prior to his surrender) and his 6th Army on the fields outside of Stalingrad.

If you'd like the straight dope on the second world war, specifically from the German perspective, and not the Military History equivalent of Opera Whinfree (Military Channel), try these books. I highly recommend them:

The Fall of Berlin 1945 by Antony Beevor
Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad by William Craig
Soldat: Reflections of a German Soldier, 1936-1949 by Siegfried Knappe
Stalingrad by Antony Beevor

Regards,

Jeff
 
sunray said:
The American Propaganda Re-run Channel has been on for several years.
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Perfect name for it!!

I can get past them trumpeting their own horn...which they do ALOT...because they show some cool stuff. But damn man...enough with the reruns!!! It seems like each series has 2 to 4 episodes, and all they is replay them over and over and over...one right after the other too!!
 
pontcanna said:
Sounds more like the Navy to me :)
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Being a ignorant ex-grunt, they're all the same to me. hahaha.

I'm not a huge fan of Canadian Sat content, that's why I'm picking up the US Dish Network. There's a lot more variety. I am picking up express vu as well, but it's mostly for watching hockey. If you're looking for a cheaper way into the market, I'm running a Viewsat Ultra FTA receiver and it'll pick up whatever you can point at. I'm pulling in 3 different providers on mine. The sat companies charge way too much for service, and force you to buy every package in order to get the few channels you want. I prefer to go by the rule that if you're going to shoot a signal at my property for free, I'm going to pick it up for free. I've been using FTA receivers for years, and I would never switch to a paid service, it's just not worth it.
 
JeffMan said:
I couldn’t agree with you more.

Americans got into WWI and WWII late in the game. That’s why they got the tough beaches on D-day. Not like the Brits, Canadians, NZ, Australians, etc, etc, got it easy, but to watch movies you'd think it was the Americans kicking ass alone.

If you want to talk about kicking ass you could look at the number of German dead compared to the American dead while in combat with each other. The Germans revolutionized modern military tactics and the ratios of American dead to German dead are glaringly off balance. Even against the Italians the Americans did rather poorly.

Sure they (Germans) where lead by a mad man but they took on the world and would have succeeded if they hadn't fought on more than one front. But Hitler was a gambler, and gamblers gamble until they loose (ref: Soldat)

Germans where the first to use infantry in support of armor in the form of Blitzkrieg (lightning war). German armor would stop when infantry and artillery (still mostly horse drawn at the time) had to catch up, or supply lines got to thin to support the advancing Panzer Groupe.

In the end it was the lack of tracked vehicles (some would rightly argue) that led to the end of General Paulus (later promoted to Field Marshal by Hitler just prior to his surrender) and his 6th Army on the fields outside of Stalingrad.

If you'd like the straight dope on the second world war, specifically from the German perspective, and not the Military History equivalent of Opera Whinfree (Military Channel), try these books. I highly recommend them:

The Fall of Berlin 1945 by Antony Beevor
Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad by William Craig
Soldat: Reflections of a German Soldier, 1936-1949 by Siegfried Knappe
Stalingrad by Antony Beevor

Regards,

Jeff
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+1 Jeffman! In fact read anything by Antony Beevor and you will never, ever see war as glorious again. Horrifying stuff really. :eek:

What I really miss are the old series' they used to show on Saturday afternoons back in the 70's and 80's (I know, I'm getting so old) like "The War Years" and "Vietnam" etc. They were factual and non-revisionist as far as I can remember.
I've had the MIL channel since it started and Wings before that and it's mostly annoying, repetitive propaganda.
 
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