Cut off from the world at war around you, hunkered in an armoured vehicle, yet when you were hit, all you had was a small hatchway between you and incineration. Limited views and limited space was what all of those whose served in them had. But the veteran said that he would not be able to recognise any of the places as all he ever saw of the terrain was a letterbox sized slit view, always looking straight ahead.
As a treat, his son planned to drive him around all the old sites of his war service in Normandy, Holland and Germany. I was once told a story by a World War II veteran who served as a radio operator in one of the British Army tank regiments. In Fury, starring Brad Pitt and Shia leBeouf, we follow the story of five American soldiers, a crew serving in one tank in Germany, 1945. and our national interest," he said.The latest corner of World War II to be dramatised for the big screen is small. military has and we spends over $800 billion a year to be ready to defend the U.S. "Ukraine has had to mobilize more troops (over 700K, likely 1 million) than the entire U.S.
Mr Spencer said there had been complaints about the amount promised to Ukraine, such as the $40bn pledged by the US - when in comparison, America was spending $1bn a day to field less than 260,000 soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. He also claimed no Western military would attempt such a move without 1,000 times more equipment than Ukraine has. No other military has had to breach "such extensive mined defensive lines" since the Second World War, he wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. "Bottom line, the West didn't deliver what they promised and more importantly didn't deliver even a fraction of what is needed in Ukraine," said John Spencer, chair of urban warfare studies at the Modern War Institute. An expert has said he is "tired" of hearing opinions on why Ukraine's counteroffensive is going slowly.
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