At 11:17 a.m. 10/02/2007, you wrote:
> > er.... what? I know there's a certain amount of
> > rivalry between the different branches of the Forces,
> > but "fighting for hundreds of years"??
>
>Most assuredly. And it's not just Britain: for all the Cold War
>years, the Navy ranked the Army as a greater threat than the Soveit
>Union. (Of course, that might have been because the Russian tanks
>would stop at the Atlantic coast of France.)
I thought it was Admiral Rickover who was judged a worse threat.
--Peter Metcalfe