Military Tactics Aficionado Pillows

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.'

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

"It's General Douglas MacArthur."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Joe Goes Home

'But this IS my mobile home!'

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

First Stealth Aircraft.

Afghanistan 2001 and 2021

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

'It's a military tattoo!'

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

The Trench-Sealer

Napoleon 'Snuffed Out' by the Russians

Stale Ostrich Egg Throwers

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

"It's not that important, Mamma. It's more like I got promoted to be Mr. Feinschreiber's assistant in the shipping department."

'Change - yes, but is now really the moment to be discussing change?'