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I do not think cancelling the F155 project is a good idea. The project in its Fairey Delta III form would have given the RAF an F-15 Eagle performance aircraft by 1962/3. This would avoid buying the US Phantom (IOC 1968) and upgrades (avionics and AAM) would have kept it competitive when the...

i THINK I can generate rough ORBATS for the late 500s for the various post-Roman Rectorates. I mean I have the Notitia Dignitatum for the 430s. While the Southern units get smashed up during the Vortigen Period I noted above. So when Aelle made his move things were much weaker in the south...

What date is the withdrawl? and what unit are taken?

Robert Vermaat in http://www.vortigernstudies.org.uk/artwho/name.htm develops the argument that a dude from Gloucester, Vitalinus, who was Arch-Bishop of London, was made into an emergency supreme commander (a Vortigern). For clarity I changed the references in the Chronology below by adding the...

To Paraphrase "Amateurs deal with Schleswig-Holstein; professionals deal with Holy Roman Empire".

The Troops in the Notitia Orbat will be available for you: 3. The troops enumerated in Not. Occ. vii represent the field forces of the west as they were at this period (428-437), not, as is generally assumed, at the end of the fourth century...

I appeal to Radio Yerevan: This is Armenian Radio; Radio Yerevan: Our listeners have asked us, "Is it possible to build communism in America?" We answer: "Yes. Yes, it is possible to build communism in America. It's possible, but then who would we buy our grain from? Where would we get our...

I think because the war had been too bitter, too long, with the Four Horsemen making 50,000 dead (multiply by 2x or 3x for wounded) - the motherland defenceless to French invasion in 1779 - that their was no space for the opposing and losing rebels to be accommodated with more autonomy in the...

No. I reckon the fighting would have continued until 1777. Once the main rebel formations are defeated it would turn into something like the Partisan-phase of the Second Boer War. After all American Rangers carried on fighting the rebels two years after Yorktown, when both sides knew the...

Will over the weekend to try and think how to respond more positively to the OP.

You exactly the points I was going to make!!!!!!!!!!! :-) Post-Majorian Western Imperial remnants are stuffed. . .

Arther Ferrill in The Fall of the Roman Empire: The Military Explanation http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Ferrill_FallRomEmpire.htm talks about something similar: Barbarians who joined the Roman Army became Roman, Roman in culture, Roman in attitudes - Roman. While Barbarians who fought in...

Good grief I thought it was just me thinking "...as long as that fucking snake ricimer dies, western rome will live.". Thank you.

A British Southern Cone.

In the Japanese world view the Japanese had a superiority complex with Chinese and an inferiority complex with Westerns. For example in Malaya Malay-Malayans in the Volunteer Defence Corps units which were disbanded before the surrender were not rounded up into POW camps, as to the Japanese as...