Why dont you start a land war in Asia?
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Why dont you start a land war in Asia?
The “Risk” answer: Because it’s got too many territories to take and hold in one turn and too many borders to defend once you take it. The real answer: Asia is a really big continent with really big countries that are filled with a lot of people, a lot of mountains, a lot of forests, and a lot of snow.
Has anyone won a land war in Asia?
Fortunately, on balance Western military powers have a very good record in winning land wars in Asia, if less so since 1945. A million Allied troops of the Fourteenth Army fought the Japanese for control of Burma over a 700-mile battlefront—the largest in any theater of World War II.
Who Said Never start a land war in Asia?
Attributed to various military leaders, including Bernard Montgomery, Dwight Eisenhower and Douglas MacArthur, the quotation has existed in various forms since the Second World War and was popularized by the 1987 movie The Princess Bride (after appearing in the 1973 novel The Princess Bride).
Can’t win a land war in Asia?
“Never fight a land war in Asia” is one of those weird aphorisms that is widely known, but on which nobody agrees who originally said it. It has variously been attributed to Bernard Montgomery (British General), Dwight Eisenhower (American General and later President), and Douglas MacArthur (American General).
Do not go fighting with your land armies in China?
It is: “Do not go fighting with your land armies in China”. It is a vast country, with no clearly defined objectives. The United States has broken the second rule of war. That is: don’t go fighting with your land army on the mainland in Asia.
What is a land war?
The Land War was a period of agrarian unrest in Ireland in the late 19th century. Land War may also refer to: Ground warfare, military conflict fought on land.
Where is Montgomery buried?
Holy Cross Church Binsted, Binsted, United Kingdom
Bernard Law Montgomery Montgomery of Alamein/Place of burial
How was World war 1 fought on land?
On land, World War I was characterized by trench warfare, in which men would dig complex systems of trenches in order to provide a defensive position. Conditions in these trenches were appalling. The tank was invented during World War I by the British.
What did Rommel think of Montgomery?
“After Alamein we conquered.” If I were Montgomery, we wouldn’t still be here,” Field Marshal Erwin Rommel said as the Afrika Korps continued pressing against El Alamein in the late summer of 1942. He believed Montgomery would have withdrawn.
When was Montgomery’s funeral?
1976
THE FUNERAL OF FIELD MARSHAL VISCOUNT MONTGOMERY OF ALAMEIN IN 1976.