Comments on: Stop me if I’m boring you http://airminded.org/2006/06/02/stop-me-if-im-boring-you/ Airpower and British society, 1908-1941 Sat, 20 Mar 2010 08:13:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Brett Holman http://airminded.org/2006/06/02/stop-me-if-im-boring-you/comment-page-1/#comment-85787 Brett Holman Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:05:28 +0000 http://airminded.org/2006/06/02/stop-me-if-im-boring-you/#comment-85787 Yes, good points. It's a very strange attitude, especially since, as I say, he's not an unreconstructed old-school military historian by any means. At least I wouldn't have thought so! Yes, good points. It’s a very strange attitude, especially since, as I say, he’s not an unreconstructed old-school military historian by any means. At least I wouldn’t have thought so!

]]> By: JDK http://airminded.org/2006/06/02/stop-me-if-im-boring-you/comment-page-1/#comment-85720 JDK Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:05:43 +0000 http://airminded.org/2006/06/02/stop-me-if-im-boring-you/#comment-85720 The concept of 'a fleet in being' is a perfect example of how actually coming to battle may mean failure; ergo, by having no battles the fleet achieves its task - but presumably fails to exist on Professor Wilson's history radar... Wonder how he regards the Cold War? There were battles and skirmishes, but most of it was about not doing things! The concept of ‘a fleet in being’ is a perfect example of how actually coming to battle may mean failure; ergo, by having no battles the fleet achieves its task – but presumably fails to exist on Professor Wilson’s history radar…

Wonder how he regards the Cold War? There were battles and skirmishes, but most of it was about not doing things!

]]> By: Airminded · The great stoush http://airminded.org/2006/06/02/stop-me-if-im-boring-you/comment-page-1/#comment-76324 Airminded · The great stoush Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:09:54 +0000 http://airminded.org/2006/06/02/stop-me-if-im-boring-you/#comment-76324 [...] own attitude is pretty much the same as it was in a somewhat-different context two years ago: I would have thought that anything that happened in the past is a ‘worthwhile’ subject [...] [...] own attitude is pretty much the same as it was in a somewhat-different context two years ago: I would have thought that anything that happened in the past is a ‘worthwhile’ subject [...]

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