Military Tactics Aficionado Gifts

Flood the Zone

Hague Convention Defied! Stiffnecking Tommies by Directing Draughts on the British Trenches.

The French Are Fielding a Back Four

You Are Here - Uncle Sam's Exit Strategy

'You can come down a peg. Mesopotamia gave the world bureaucracy, you know.'

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

Ernesto Valverde Tejedor

'Blimey, boss - that's a bit revolutionary, isn't it?'

Michael Caine

"It's General Douglas MacArthur."

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

"Ya know, dad...I get to pretend I'm a superhero because of real heroes like you."

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

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

"I spent 18-plus years, $2 trillion and around 2,400 dead soldiers in Afghanistan, and all I got was. . . this lousy turban."

"Henry took a shower yesterday right next to Winthrop Rockefeller."

Army Man Playset 2020

'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.'

Grocer with pretensions of being a soldier

'Mess with me if you have to, son, but not with the regimental moustache!'

"I said it was time to send in the DRAGOONS!"

"I don't see this as a rejection of all thing French."

Joe Goes Home

First Stealth Aircraft.

Afghanistan 2001 and 2021

'But this IS my mobile home!'

'I think this is a bit over the top.'

Next Terrifying Military Threats

The Trench-Sealer

"I regret that I have but nine lives to give for my country."

'Get me two new officers to play good cop bad cop.'

'It's a military tattoo!'

Trilby - 'I will not! I will not!'

Stale Ostrich Egg Throwers

Napoleon 'Snuffed Out' by the Russians