From The China Post:
The Christmas season, devoted to charity and peace, is also the anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge. Since the United States national election in November, President-elect Obama has reiterated campaign pledges to withdraw forces from Iraq, while devoting renewed effort to the vexing insurgency in Afghanistan. Do lessons of the Second World War apply to these current conflicts? Absolutely.
On December 16, 1944, Nazi Germany began an enormous armored military offensive in bitter winter weather through the Ardennes Forest in Belgium. This had been a very quiet sector of the western front. Adolf Hitler and his planners in Berlin achieved total surprise and initially German forces gained considerable ground. For many Europeans among the Allies, the attack was eerily reminiscent of the German drive in 1940 which overran France and secured Nazi domination of the continent. At Supreme Allied Commander Dwight Eisenhower's headquarters, fear was visible along with alarm.
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