War Strategy Fan Gifts

For the War Inventions Board: The Shell-diverter for returning the enemy's fire.

'The Boer focus group at Spion Lop feels Pax Britannica is overrated, sir,'

"'I don't want war'. . . well, wither our translation program is broke or this president has a strange kind of humor!"

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

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

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

"You think you have problems? My entire wing command was just destroyed."

'Does my bum look big in this?'

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

'Okay who swiped my bath toys?'

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

Military history

"Business has been steady."

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

War and Peace GIF

Memo Mania

Carrot & nose on sticks.

'I envisioned something more robust'

Domino Effect of Rising Gas Prices.

I don't know … some days it all feels like a big game.

"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."

Next Direction

The Trench-Sealer

"Large destroyer on the horizon, captain."

'Breaker Morant would have been proved innocent if he hadn't shot the people needed for his defence.'

Tar umbrellas for sale at viking attack

I'm watching "Untold History of the United States" on Netflix. Is it true it was actually the Soviet Union that won World War II? … and is it true Japan was trying to surrender because the USSR had just entered the war against them, but we nuked them anyway just to show Russia who was boss? And is it true Truman single-handedly started the cold war and the arms race by reneging on deals Roosevelt and Churchill had struck with Stalin and then threatening to nuke the USSR? History's interesting no

'Look, thanks for your concern, but I think a flood is something we can cope with!'

"Damn it! Ask something on the Franco-Prussian War!"

Naval Battle off Memphis, Leading to Capture of City

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

"Why don't we settle this with rock, paper, scissors."

Repurposed Porpise: US Navy

"I can't help you if you don't let your guard down."

'Go to the bank and see if it's still there'