Neither Britain's small, professional forces nor Germany's large, conscript forces were designed to fight an offensive land war against a medium-sized European power.
As I noted in my post on the subject earlier in the week, CML shares had rallied more than 180% since mid-July, driven in part by takeover chatter following the bidding war between Dell and Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) for 3Par , another mid-sized storage company.