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BAXIL TELLS IT LIKE IT IS YEAAAAAAAAAHCapt Jim 22:56, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

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WHY DID YOU DELETE THAT

THAT WAS A SOLID FACT Capt Jim 04:46, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

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HEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Capt Jim 23:56, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

break stuff?
did you really break things when you noticed no name tags on the bdu? maybe you should switch to decaf. there are a lot of flubs like that in movies. Keltik31 22:00, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

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Mokra
Yes, I believe the neutrality check was there mostly because there was a one-time editor involved. As to English-language literature (I assume you don't read Polish, do you), I'm not sure. The best general source on Polish defence in 1939 is "Polskie siły zbrojne w II wojnie światowej", a monumental monograph on Polish armed forces in WWII published after some 50 years of research by the Sikorski Institute of London. Vol. I part II (did I mention it's that monumental?) covers all battles fought between September 1 and September 8. There's also a couple of decent monographs on Pomorze Army, among them "Armia Pomorze 1939" by Ciechanowski is perhaps the best known (alas not flawless). As to general English-language books, I'd recomend Steven Zaloga's "Poland 1939: The Birth of Blitzkrieg". It's nowhere near as detailed as Polish-language monographs, but it's a good read and gives a pretty good overview of what was happening. And the author did consult Polish sources, which actually helps :)

As to Montcornet, I remember there's a mention of it in Guderian's memoirs, and of course there's plenty of info in De Gaulle's own memoirs (vol. I if memory serves me). If you read French I might be able to find more sources, though I can't say I read them (my French is far from perfect).  // Halibutt 09:45, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

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Hi, I found the orginal source on the Monsanto's ownning Blackwater - Jeremy Scahill's article in The Nation (http://www.thenation.com/article/154739/blackwaters-black-ops?page=full), there's much more interesting information about both companies (for example: "Blackwater [...] offering to provide operatives to infiltrate activist groups organizing against the multinational biotech firm"), but I'm not the english native speaker, so I don't want to edit article by myself. Could you please write there something more about this problem? Thank you in advance. 195.150.129.185 (talk) 08:29, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

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Hello. You have changed the result of Battle of Nikolayevka to Tactical Axis victory. Can you explain your reasoning? Because having 2 divisions wiped out and the third one losing over 70% of its strength in an encirclement is hardly a tactical victory. It's a total defeat. D2306 (talk) 06:49, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Reading the article I'm under the impression that most of the losses are from the second phase of Operation Saturn, and the actual battle of Nikolayevka did not begin til 26 January despite what the infobox says. So the overwhelming majority of the Axis losses would have been suffered during Operation Saturn, not in the battle for Nikolayevka. Nikolayevka is the site of one of the few successful Axis breakthroughs during the Soviet encirclement. Thus it may be viewed as a minor tactical victory in a campaign that was overwhelmingly a Soviet success otherwise. As you say, two divisions were wiped out and another lost 70% but the overwhelming majority of this would have occurred in the previous 13 days and not just at Nikolayevka. There, a breakout allowed the remaining 30% or so of the Italian alpini, plus some German and Hungarian stragglers, to escape. Of course, in light of their previous horrible losses this does not constitute much more than a local victory in the midst of defeat on the rest of that front; it saved them from annihilation, but by then there wasn't a whole lot left to annihilate. The Italian wiki page supports this reading, and also the conclusion that it's a tactical victory for the Axis. Let me know what you think about this. Capt Jim (talk) 23:19, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
 * I get the opposite info from reading the article. The battle began on January 13. The article states "The Italian 8th Army's Alpini Corps [...] were at this point largely unaffected by the Soviet offensive". The "Battle of Nikolayevka" basically being a name made by the Italian commanders after the war for the part of operation soviet offensive that concerned the last Aplini corps. The Soviets themselves referred to this operation (inc. the destruction of the Hungarian 2nd Army) as Ostrogozhsk-Rossosh offensive. We could narrow down the artcile to just the single small engagement near Nikolayevka, but then most of the article will become irrelevant. And even then, "tactical victory" is really stretching it, as even the massive 1941 encirclements had engagements where a few thousand men would escape, but they don't get called "tactical victories".

The net result of the battle was the destruction in just 2 weeks of the Alpini Corps (and the Hungarian 2nd Army if we look at the wider operation).D2306 (talk) 20:27, 8 June 2013 (UTC)


 * Oh, I missed that sentence, sorry about that. Your view definitely makes more sense, and I suppose I was a bit biased in my conclusion that it was a tactical victory because every other language wiki's got the same result.

Another thought about the article: shouldn't the Soviet forces infobox then be changed or at least altered to say that 6000 men was the number of forces present on 26 January and not the entire two weeks? Capt Jim (talk) 01:11, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
 * First of all, we cannot not use other wiki pages as sources. Besides, there are only 3 other language wiki pages: the Portuguese article is a stub, the Japanese article calls it "Tactical victory of the Italians, strategic victory of the Soviets", the Italian wiki limits to the 1 day engagement and calls it "success of the remaining Axis forces, who manage to [... ]escape the encirclement and annihilation"


 * As I said earlier, we could narrow down the article to just the single small engagement near Nikolayevka, but then most of the article will become irrelevant. We would also struggle to find sources about the details of this smaller battle, besides the 1960-s memoirs of Italian commanders there (which not reliable sources). The Soviets did not view the 26 January engagement as worth mentioning, focusing on the wider offensive. They could be biased, but Glantz too does not even mention it in his book on "After Stalingrad", only talking about the larger offensive. If anything I feel the article should be expanded, so we cover the wider operation in more detail and get to use more reliable sources.D2306 (talk) 21:25, 12 June 2013 (UTC)


 * I know we can't, it was a regrettable lapse of judgement on my part. I'd agree that we should expand it to cover the rest of the fighting, and if you know of any decent sources on the wider operation (unfortunately I've read none that come to mind that go in-depth on this particular operation) then by all means go ahead and get started on it - and let me know about them too and I'd be glad to help. Plus, I could use some interesting reading anyway. Capt Jim (talk) 08:34, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

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Thanks for letting me know. As I noted on the talk page, the Northern and Southern Front sections are pretty much arbitrary. In 1939 the situation was so chaotic that while most forces were in theory assigned to either front, in practice a large part never took part in coordinated war effort with this or that front. That said, battle of Lwów definitely falls into the Southern Front (that's where the Southern Front was trying to break through to before it was stopped at Tomaszów). Good spotting :)

The case of Kock is a tad more complicated. The Independent Operational Group Polesie was initially part of the Northern Front and was tasked with screening it from the east. However, after Brześć, the fall of Warsaw and the Soviet invasion, the unit fought pretty much in isolation, outside of the command structure. I'll add it to the Northern Front, even though the battle of Kock took place in the area that was part of the Southern Front's theatre soon before that. It's arbitrary though and we could go either way I believe. We could even create another sub-section, though I believe the template is long enough as it is.  // Halibutt 10:16, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

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What does Belgium or the Belgian Congo have to do with the Burma campaign, the Madagascar campaign, or the East Africa Campaign? --Yaush (talk) 21:49, 3 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Belgian and Congolese troops fought in East Africa. A medical unit, 10th (Belgian Congo) Casualty Clearing Station, served under British command in Madagascar and Burma. For more info take a glance at Belgian Congo in World War II under the Military Involvement section. Capt Jim (talk) 22:02, 3 January 2015 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure I believe this is significant enough to include these articles in the categories you've placed them in. --Yaush (talk) 23:54, 3 January 2015 (UTC)


 * I can see what you mean for Madagascar and Burma, it is pedantic in retrospect now that I look at the other categories so I will revert those two. However, I would say that for East Africa it is definitely significant enough considering there were several thousand Congolese troops fighting there. Capt Jim (talk) 03:44, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

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