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Originally Posted by Richard T. Eger
What Cairo speech are you referring to Paul?
Also, while you gave a technical answer as to the use of leaflet releasing equipment, what hasn't been answered is how effective was this in WW II and what techniques from that war as to what the leaflet says were most effective?
As for all the accumulated knowledge gained from our membership of WW II strategy, I'm a bit frustrated that more have not joined in on the conversation. Is it really all about who shot down who and no strategic thinking? Theo Boiten, Larry deZeng, where are you?
Regards,
Richard
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Dear Richard,
How easily one forgets
Here is a mention of Obama's Cairo performance from a male donkey (jackass in US English) in a very left-wing news magazine -
http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-...eeches-tragedy .
I did answer that the leafleting could not possibly have been effective in the face of the Gestapo and Geheime Feldpolizei. You might have heard of the 'White Rose' group and the posthumous distribution of their message by Allied leafleting -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21521060 . It needs not to be mentioned that this led to no significant change in German morale. If you want to know more about German reactions to leaflets, you can have a look at the 'Meldungen aus dem Reich' collection.
On the wider strategic questions, I have tried repeatedly to emphasise that air power must be used on a large scale and with a high intensity. Clearly, this hasn't sparked the attention of too many people
What we have at the moment is a rather minor parody of the Second World War, see here that the current raids on undefended oil trucks have somehow been named after the Ploesti raid of 1943 -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34906011 . There is, of course, copious leafleting going on simultaneously. Allow me to point out that both the attacks on oil infrastructure and the deployment of leaflets are essentially tactical decisions, while you said that you wanted to discuss strategy.
Regards,
Paul