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Old 12-24-2010, 08:02 AM
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Originally Posted by lutzTD View Post
intelligence or capability is not a social or racial trait, you would find that any country who decides to train an army will find in its population charasmatic, capable and intelligent leadership among its own people. any advantage would come from the number trained and the pool from which to draw officers and men, werein those countries with large populations and the programs to search and train military officers would have a decided advantage. Germany did well in WWII because of training starting very young with brown shirts and the governements will to raise a large force. once other countries caught up, they were not so smart.....
The Germans have been pretty much neutered post WW II and turned into peaceniks.'They don't seem to have much of a will to fight in Afghanistan, but at home they moan about Muslim extremists and the whispers about racial purity are getting louder.

But they no longer step up. They just follow the routine.
Goodbye, Columbus (if you ever sawthe movie).

I'd go with the French, they cultivate the image of being cheese-eaters, but they are the second-largest and most-deployed army on the globe, after ours. They are sneaky and effective.

Plus they have a national policy of self-interest, not entitlement. There are a lot of things wrong with the country, but there are some that are right.

They have done tons more to help us in counter-terrorism than the Germans have.
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