How Churchill engineered one of the world’s first ‘dirty’ wars - NY Post

[TomSea]

How Churchill engineered one of the world’s first ‘dirty’ wars
By Michael Riedel February 12, 2017 |

letchley Park is one of the most famous World War II sites in England. Tourists flock to the estate, where Alan Turing cracked the Nazis’ Enigma machine, enabling the Allies to read secret dispatches between Hitler and his generals.

Some 10 miles down the road is another manse that played a key role in the war — but almost no one knows about it. That home, the Firs, is where a secret band of engineers invented diabolical bombs, detonators and booby traps that were used in what today might be called a dirty war against the Germans.

It was all done with the blessing — and the enthusiasm — of then-Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

That “dirty” war, which included assassinations and the possible use of chemical weapons, is the focus of a new book, “Churchill’s Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare” (Picador), by Giles Milton. The author highlights the men and women who set into motion dramatic and effective acts of sabotage behind enemy lines.

Continued: http://nypost.com/2017/02/12/how-churchill-engineered-one-of-the-worlds-first-dirty-wars/

This article came out, I'm a bit skeptical about it. It's just a book making these assertions.

[Sanguine]

"Dirty war"?  As opposed to a "clean war"? 

[Fishrrman]

Quote from the article:
"This did not go down well with many politicians and officers. “They were appalled by what Gubbins and his men were doing,” Milton told The Post. “Assassination and sabotage weren’t fair play. British gentlemen did not engage in such things.”
Churchill, however, “understood that the Nazis were a brutal regime and that you had to tear up the rule books to defeat them,” Milton said."

A valid point that many who are (justifiably) opposed to islam cannot come to grasp.

In the war for survival between The West and islam, we can no longer cling to the assumption that the end cannot be justified by the means.

We must do whatever it requires to win.
Unless we are willing to do that...  we will lose.

[dfwgator]

Quote from the article:
"This did not go down well with many politicians and officers. “They were appalled by what Gubbins and his men were doing,” Milton told The Post. “Assassination and sabotage weren’t fair play. British gentlemen did not engage in such things.”
Churchill, however, “understood that the Nazis were a brutal regime and that you had to tear up the rule books to defeat them,” Milton said."

A valid point that many who are (justifiably) opposed to islam cannot come to grasp.

In the war for survival between The West and islam, we can no longer cling to the assumption that the end cannot be justified by the means.

We must do whatever it requires to win.
Unless we are willing to do that...  we will lose.

When the "Phony War" was going on, there was a Nazi plane shot down over Scotland,  the Brits recovered the bodies of the German pilots and buried them with full honors.

Incredible story of first World War Two air attack on Britain
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/incredible-story-of-first-world-war-1039510

Of course this all took place before The Blitz.

[truth_seeker]

Trump's fault

[EC]

This article came out, I'm a bit skeptical about it. It's just a book making these assertions.

Oh, it's true. The Crown maintained an assassination squad for years after the war. John Unwin wrote a good book about them - The Sixteen. Gets a little technical in spots, but it's a good read.