Information I'd love to know

During WW2, Britain had a Chiefs of Staff Committee.
FDR invented the Joint Chiefs of Staff for the USA,
and recalled Admiral Leahy to be its chairman.
Then the Brits sent a senior officer from each service
to DC, to join the JCS in "Combined Chiefs of Staff."
CCS ran the details of the UK/USA parts of the war,
under political supervision of course.

NATO has a Supreme HQ Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE),
led by a SCAPE.

Of course it helped that WSC, FDR, and Leahy could talk
by telephone in real time, and SCAPE can talk with any
of his Heads Of State.
The GA won't have that. (Not until the Streak Drive can
trail phone lines through hyperspace! )

HTM

tonyz wrote:below

SWM wrote:Did the Alliance during World War II have a joint chiefs of staff? Does NATO? Or did/do they just have an overall commander plus commanders of each participating unit, plus administrative structure? NATO appears to have a Military Committee, but that appears to be parallel to the Allied Command Operations rather than superior to it. I'm not sure how they are really structured.

WW II definitely saw US and Britain with joint chiefs of staff,and I think the Grand Alliance could use such a structure. Will they realize it in time,though? There's a lot of operational planning and coordination and allocation above the fleet command level -- try reading Alanbrooke's diaries sometime to see what might be involved. The Grand Alliancemight try to handle that at the head of state level, though, instead of a joint planning body... Which would induce Issues similar to those the Entente faced during World War I, or Soviet/British+US issues duringWorld War II.

bunyipbelle wrote:I too would really like to know about Beowulf's Gremlins.Never,never,ever feed a Gremlin after midnight. Perhaps Honor's mother knows about them. She is from Beowulf.

Amaroq wrote:I want to know what happened to Beowulf's Gremlins? They were mentioned in OBS and then never again. Are they cute and fuzzy? Do they have Gremlin colonies? Can you feed them after midnight?

It is fine to feed a gremlin after midnight, although unsafe to be around them at any time. You get a gremlin by feeding . . . something else after midnight (sorry, I haven't seen the movies in rather a long time ^_^).

If they are already gremlins, then you have fed them after midnite.

Beforehand, they are simply a mogwai, cute and cuddly.

If you get them wet, they multiply, like Star Trek's tribbles.


Does anyone know the name of the only bonded treecat on Torch?

1) How Silesia is divided
2) Is HMS Fearless (star knight class) still around, what has it been up to, who has been the commanders of it.
3) Has honor had more interaction with the Ballroom beside what we know of in silesia and with anton.

cthia wrote:If they are already gremlins, then you have fed them after midnite.

Beforehand, they are simply a mogwai, cute and cuddly.

If you get them wet, they multiply, like Star Trek's tribbles.


Does anyone know the name of the only bonded treecat on Torch?

There is more than one bonded treecat on Torch. From ToF:

We've got a few treecats of our own on Torch these days, and they confirm that."

Another relevant quote is:

As far as Judson was aware, only one ex-slave had ever been adopted by a treecat, but there were probably half a dozen children of ex-slaves who had been, and he was one of them.

You might be thinking of Genghis, bondmate to Judson Harper, since he's the only Torch treecat we have actually seen. But both Genghis and Judson died in the assassination attempt on Queen Berry.

SWM wrote:

Amaroq wrote:I don't know whether they need one or not but in ART it's stated that they do have one. During Prince Michael's wedding the text lists all of the distinguished guests who attended and it mentions "the chairman of the Alliance joint chiefs of staff". We've all been wondering who exactly that is.

Ah, I must have missed that reference! Thanks.

No problem. It's easy to miss because it's buried in an avalanche of prestigious names.

Does anyone know the name of the only bonded treecat on Torch, and whom it's bonded to?

SWM wrote:

cthia wrote:If they are already gremlins, then you have fed them after midnite.

Beforehand, they are simply a mogwai, cute and cuddly.

If you get them wet, they multiply, like Star Trek's tribbles.


Does anyone know the name of the only bonded treecat on Torch?

There is more than one bonded treecat on Torch. From ToF:

We've got a few treecats of our own on Torch these days, and they confirm that."

Another relevant quote is:

As far as Judson was aware, only one ex-slave had ever been adopted by a treecat, but there were probably half a dozen children of ex-slaves who had been, and he was one of them.

You might be thinking of Genghis, bondmate to Judson Harper, since he's the only Torch treecat we have actually seen. But both Genghis and Judson died in the assassination attempt on Queen Berry.

It was Judson Van Hale son of an ex-slave, you probably miss-remembered his name and his partners name Harper S Ferry.

saber964 wrote:There is more than one bonded treecat on Torch. From ToF:

We've got a few treecats of our own on Torch these days, and they confirm that."

Another relevant quote is:

As far as Judson was aware, only one ex-slave had ever been adopted by a treecat, but there were probably half a dozen children of ex-slaves who had been, and he was one of them.

You might be thinking of Genghis, bondmate to Judson Harper, since he's the only Torch treecat we have actually seen. But both Genghis and Judson died in the assassination attempt on Queen Berry.

Thanx guys. Was frying my already scrambled brain!

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The GA won't have that. (Not until the Streak Drive can
trail phone lines through hyperspace! )

HTM

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