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1. Just read the book “FDR Goes to War”.

   https://www.amazon.com/FDR-Goes-War-Executive-Restricted/dp/1439183201

   An interesting claim in this book has to do with the final push into Europe. According to the Folsoms, military planners were not actually in favor of the Normandy invasion. They initially advocated a push from the south through Italy, not a push from the west through France. Churchill supposedly advocated the push through Italy as well.

   Supposedly, Joseph Stalin vetoed this plan because it would likely result in the American’s and British getting to Germany and portions of Eastern Europe before the Soviets. The picture painted in the book is that FDR wanted to have Stalin’s baby he was so enamored with him and agreed to slow the advance from the south and shift to a push from the west.

   The picture is that FDR handed East Germany, East Berlin and large pieces of Eastern Europe to Stalin.

   I wonder how different the second half of the 20th Century would have looked had we invaded Europe from the south?

   1. Whenever there’s a Democrat in charge of war, it doesn’t end well.
      Johnson (took over after Lincoln was assaniated) – messed up Reconstruction of the South
      Wilson – waited 18 months to enter the war WWI after the sinking of the Lusitania ship

      Roosevelt in World War II, as stated above.

      Pres. Eisenhower watching the Korean war so we will lose Half of Korea.

      Pres. Johnson during Vietnam, losing that water.

      Obama pulling troops out of Iraq immediately on a certain date.

2. The Germans had us stalemated at Casino, therefor Anzio and that disaster kept us from a timely capture of Rome and a winter campaign in the Alps? That would have made attacking Moscow in the winter look like a good idea(Italians,Swiss and Germans are prepared for fighting in the Alps, no one else). A third front had to be opened to divert Hitlers attention and resources and England was still starving without US shipping(going to Russia and Med. ports just survival rations without US troops). It was a time game,if Germany was able to “level” up to new weapons things could have been much different.
   To learn how captured by communism FDR and his cabal were read Maj. Racey Jordans book, Jordans’ Diaries, documents subservient fdr to Stalin(tried to have Texas change its flag,open espionage,diversions of massive war materiel not needed but for rebuilding). Another communist democrat president.

3. Re: Chuck Taylor, I was a young policeman back in the 80’s and I considered his first book, “The Complete Book of Combat Handgunning” (1982), my most ‘prized’ tactical possession 😉

   Updated by him in 1996 (with the ‘Weaver’, ‘Modified Weaver’, and ‘Isoceles’ “war of tacticians” still ongoing), it was still a pretty book…even by that time.

   Rest In Peace to one of the last of the (now) old-school hands who brought technical examination of gunfighting tactics into the popular law enforcement AND civilian domains.

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