Talk:Peter de la Billière

message: Not a bif fan of cleanup tags without explanation on the talk, I chose to add an explanation here rather than remove the tag. The article seems to contain some redundant info. Each step in this individual's career is probably not interesting. // Konvalj 18:26, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed the cleanup tag as I believe I have worked this article into reasonable shape. Let me know what you think. Blair - Speak to me 09:23, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup? 

message: Does anyone know how close his connection to France is? Gustav von Humpelschmumpel 23:26, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: French?

message: What is THIS:  "Prior to this, Schwarzkopf was resistant to the use of special forces due to his experiences in Vietnam where US special forces (in this context special forces refers to all US special forces, not just the Special Forces - ie the green berets) performance was generally poor"?
Sources?
Schwarzkopf's view at the time was widely known. For example http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/oral/billiere/2.html
Norman's argument is two-fold. (1) SOF's light infantry nature makes them vulnerable to a well-conducted defense. Twice the US Delta Force has been completely routed on missions that could have been handled by a heavier force. (2) SOF's links with covert intelligence has lead to unsoldierly behaviour which has placed the entire mission at risk. For example, SOF's behaviour during the Vietnam War's Project Phoenix.
Billiere overcame Schwarzkopf's objections (1) because the Gulk War was suited to light infrantry operations and (2) the example of Billiere's own behaviour with the SAS. Gdt 07:26, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: The Gulf War

message: The use of the expression 'Sinecure/Sinecurist' frequently indicates a negative sense or nuance.  A suitable alternative may be 'honorarium' (not honorary) which I think would be better in this case and propose to change the word in the main article but would like to know the views of other readers before doing so.Miletus (talk) 08:54, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know the details of whether he performed duties in this post. In any case he had been set for retirement as a lieutenant-general, but on completion of Desert Storm was promoted to general with this ad hoc posting (meaning a significant salary increase) and then retired shortly thereafter (with a significant pension increase over what he would have received had he retired as a lieutenant general). Meanwhile, he was the in-theater commander of British forces but for the purposes of British command structure relating to the Gulf War he was answerable to Air Chief Marshal Sir Patrick Hine so should he really be called "Commander-in-Chief"? LE (talk) 16:49, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  use of 'Sinecure' 

message: he appeared on the show using Hannibal's tactics  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.94.173.73 (talk) 01:43, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  clash of the generals 

message: I guess I arrived late to the party, but I'll say what I have to say anyway. I get 2,100 post-1990 English-language Google Book hits for this subject's name, of which 379 contain the diacritic. That's a usage rate of 18 percent. This is an extremely high rate for diacritic usage. Compare this to 1,040/160,000 ===> 6.5 percent for "Björn Borg". As I favor a threshold of 10 percent, I would have voted "opposed." Kauffner (talk) 10:10, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Post-RM discussion 

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