[TML] Honor 'Just call me Horatio' Harrington was Re: Environmental domes

Bruce Johnson johnson at pharmacy.arizona.edu
Fri Sep 7 11:03:20 MDT 2007


On Sep 7, 2007, at 8:41 AM, Andrew Long wrote:

> Towards the end of the Cold War, there was a lot of chatter about
> "Quantity having a quality all of it's own". And I remember a joke
> that was supposed to be current around NATO to the effect of:-
>
> Location: Paris
> Time: After the war
>
> First Soviet tank general to second Soviet tank general: "By the way,
> who won the air war?"
>
> Regards, Andy


Was this before or after we found out that those vaunted Soviet tank  
battalions could have gotten about 20 miles before running out of  
fuel and parts because they'd all been sold on the black market for  
vodka and food for the tank crews?


-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

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