On 1/10/2025 3:04 PM, cyclintom wrote:
On Thu Aug 22 08:41:20 2024 AMuzi wrote:
On 8/22/2024 6:42 AM, John B. wrote:
On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 06:04:55 -0400, Catrike Ryder
<Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:
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https://hbr.org/2010/07/higher-education-is-highly-ove
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The problem is that "higher education" has come to mean "collage
education" when in fact it should be seen as any advanced knowledge.
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A rather vivid example is the English Bowman of the 1300's and 1400s
were able to win battles against much larger and much better equipped
French forces.The Battle of Crcy took place on 26 August 1346 between
an English army of from 7,000 to 15,000 (data was somewhat poor in
those days) was able to defeat an army of from 20,000 - 30,000 French
who were equipped with far better equipment. Loses on the English side
was in the region of 1 for every 13-15 French who were killed.
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In the Battle of Agincourt about 100 year later 6,000 to 8,000 English
took on some 14,000?15,000 French and beat them again with about 600
English losses versus 6,000 French losses, and 600 - 2,000 captured.
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While the difference in formal education was probably not great, among
the Gentry, the English had a program to encourage archery and boys
might start archery training as early as 10 years of age and there was
a "government program" to manufacture archery supplies, bows and
arrows.
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By the way, for anyone that cares the "English Long Bow" might better
be called the Welch Long Bow" as it is though it originated in that
country(s).
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Thanks. Beyond that, I pointed out here (and elsewhere) on
Russia's invasion of Ukraine that they had a really crappy
army as they are mostly short-term conscripts, treated badly
in general and lacking career noncoms and warrant officers.
This is a nontrivial point regarding education and training
often called 'institutional memory'. Until recently our own
forces were especially effective, with highly skilled
noncoms, warrant officers and field officers not only well
trained but also given more latitude in decision making than
others, especially the Russian army. Which is why they have
lost so many flag officers in the past few years; they do
not have a competent career field officer and noncom base.
But I would like to make the point that the Ukraine is now a totalitarian state that Biden had been pumping billions into and the OMLY adult in the room is Putin. Were this Stalin we would be in WW 3.
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If Zelensky were Stalin, the Ukranian kleptocrats would be shot instead of buying luxury cars with our tax dollars.
Your WW III reference makes no sense.
In Version II, Stalin, an ally at the time, prevailed with significant US materiel (and some contributions from Britain & Canada). The outcome would certainly have been much slower, if at all, without those 'beans, bullets and band aids'.
"Britain supplied 5,800 planes, 4,292 tanks, and 12 minesweepers. Canada supplied 1,188 tanks, 842 armoured cars, nearly one million shells, and 208,000 tons of wheat and flour.
Source :-
http://www.infoukes.com/history/ww2/page-09.htmThe USA supplied:-
Aircraft-----------------------14795
Tanks.................................7,056
Jeeps................................51,503
Trucks..............................375,883
Motorcycles..........................35,170
Tractors..............................8,071
Guns..................................8,218
Machine guns........................131,633
Explosives..........................345,735 tons
Building equipment valued.......$10,910,000
Railroad freight cars................11,155
Locomotives...........................1,981
Cargo ships..............................90
Submarine hunters.......................105
Torpedo boats...........................197
Ship engines..........................7,784
Food supplies.....................4,478,000 tons
Machines and equipment.......$1,078,965,000
Noniron metals......................802,000 tons
Petroleum products................2,670,000 tons
Chemicals...........................842,000 tons
Cotton..........................106,893,000 tons
Leather..............................49,860 tons
Tires.............................3,786,000
Army boots.......................15,417,000 pairs"
Of special note on that last item, winter warfare without amply built winter boots is a notorious crippler of infantry.
Besides all that, we ran a huge fuel operation out of Iran for the Soviets. One of my uncles was an officer there at the time.
And regarding Britain, FDR blocked a shipment of aircraft intended for the defense of Singapore to Russia at the last minute. Britons know how that went for the defenders.
-- Andrew Muziam@yellowjersey.orgOpen every day since 1 April, 1971
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