I sometimes forget that most people have not studied military history

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Larry J — 3/28/2003 6:19:17 PM (archived)

I've been studying it for over 30 years. The "Phoney War" was a term that a lot of people themselves used at the time to describe the relative lull in activity between the fall of Poland in 1939 and the resumption of German advances in the spring of 1940. It didn't imply that nothing was happening, just a relative lull in operations.

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WSJ "Best of the Web" on short attention spans... - Tom Brosz - 3/27/2003 9:25:35 AM
- Re: WSJ - LJ - 3/27/2003 9:51:33 AM
  - It was called the "Phoney War" - Larry J - 3/27/2003 11:14:07 AM
    - Phony war??? Larry J shame on you! - LJ - 3/27/2003 1:39:31 PM
      - OK, so Larry himself didn't call it the phony war - LJ - 3/27/2003 4:29:06 PM
        
        I sometimes forget that most people have not studied military history - Larry J - 3/28/2003 6:19:17 PM
        
        Re: I sometimes forget that most people have not studied military history - LJ - 3/28/2003 6:33:45 PM
        
        Re: OK, so Larry himself didn't call it the phony war - p - 3/28/2003 1:37:26 PM
        
        You are both referring to different gaps. n/t (n/t) - Tony - 3/27/2003 5:00:20 PM
      - Dont they teach nothing in North American schools these days? - Tony - 3/27/2003 3:03:56 PM
        
        Sadly, no - Larry J - 3/28/2003 6:32:17 PM
        
        My history lessons stopped at about 1950 - Tony - 3/28/2003 6:40:19 PM
        
        Re: Sadly, no - LJ - 3/28/2003 6:38:31 PM
        
        I would've loved to meet him - Larry J - 3/28/2003 7:13:58 PM
      - Read your history. Churchill called it exactly that.. n/t (n/t) - ebnelson - 3/27/2003 1:45:55 PM
        
        As did millions of people n/t - gbaikie - 3/27/2003 1:55:07 PM
      - Re: Phony war??? Larry J shame on you! - LJ - 3/27/2003 1:41:20 PM
        
        I don't think Larry himself was calling it a "phoney war" - Justin Kelly - 3/27/2003 1:44:47 PM

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