Military Strategy Fan Prints

'It's no big deal - Scotland is just out of compliance again.'

'I envisioned something more robust'

Naval Battle off Memphis, Leading to Capture of City

"I don't get it. Every time we send an agent into Ukraine, this how they come back."

Evacuation of the Moskva

"Retreat!!"

"No mercy! Send in the sarcastic eye-rolling teenage girls. The enemy are going to wish they were dead!"

Putin's Napoleon Complex

'Hey Dad, I've joined Hannibal's army...'

'I'm not surprised we're not 'battle ready', marching around Britannia in these sandals in febuary!'

Eustarch the Younger - the kid who brought the Trojan Horse in through the gates of Troy 'just to play with for a while'.

Historians would be too embarrassed to tell the tale of Napoleon's loss at the 'Battle of Loo Water'.'

One More River to Cross. How the Last German got back across the Yser.

Munitions! Testing Mines at Cuxhaven

"You have roots and I have troops."

Grand Review of the Army of the Potomac

The Army of the Cumberland in Lookout Valley- 33rd Mass., 73rd Ohio Volunteers Capture Rifle Pits

The Bombardment of Fredericksburg, before Army of the Potomac's Crossing

"My God—I've forgotten the number of my Swiss bank account!"

"Another outburst like that, counsellor, and I'll order suppressing fire."

"But I won't bore you with the all too familiar story of a dictator's rise to absolute power,"

"If we only used bigger clubs we would defeat our enemies every time, and we would dominate them forever!"

'General, please hire large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny.'

'Why can't we just kick Caesar upstairs?'

The Appearance of the Gatling Machine-Gun in 1864 caught the world by surprise.

'Okay who swiped my bath toys?'

"What do you suppose Ken Burns will have to say about all this in 30 years?"

'Steady,...not yet,...hold your positions.'

"Business has been steady."

They had no idea what they were doing, but it didn't matter...

Carrot & nose on sticks.

'No. No. Don't bomb them now. Wait until morning, when the birds are singing and the air is alive with a sense of possibility.'

Veteran mistakes ironclad ship for Noah's Ark

"He's just come back from a 'managing stress' course...He learnt all sorts of strategies for dealing with pressure...maybe he could show us some of them if he ever wakes up."

Domino Effect of Rising Gas Prices.