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In theory, sure. In practice, I suspect that if so few Irish Catholics reached high rank out of a disproportionately high number in the British military, much smaller groups are that much less likely.

The earliest I can find was Martin Dillon, who was appointed to the rank of Major-General in 1878, Lieutenant-General in 1887 and full General in 1892. There were substantial numbers of Irish Catholics in the enlisted ranks, but disproportionately few were commissioned officers, and hardly any...

The original production run of the Bradley IFV was from 1980 to 1995, totaling 6,724 Bradley vehicles. With the post Cold War draw-down in forces, the number in active service declined substantially with many being placed in storage; later versions of the Bradley were manufactured as upgrades on...

https://www.ushmm.org/remember/holocaust-reflections-testimonies/echoes-of-memory/freedom-in-holysov Here is a firsthand account of the liberation of Holysov from one of the women who was held there. She describes the partisans who liberated the camp as "White Russian", not Polish or Czech, and...

Here's a fun one. Back in the 1970s, the Air Force requested assistance from NASA in improving the analog fly-by-wire systems that were being used in the then under development YF-16 and YF-17. The YF-16 had full authority FBW and would go on to be the first combat aircraft to take advantage...

And where exactly are you getting this idea? Both of them are by definition intermediate calibers, as they are smaller and less powerful than full .30-caliber service rifle rounds but larger and more powerful than pistol rounds. The .280 British is even axiomatically an intermediate round, as...

That's a longstanding rumor that has never actually been confirmed even with the post-Cold War declassification of arcchival material. Even if the story is true, that was only an informal, non-binding quid pro quo between Churchill and Truman.

It was very well understood that you needed to go to an intermediate power round in order to have controllable recoil levels out of a select-fire infantry rifle; that's what the StG-44 was, and the .280 British, and even before that the .276 Pedersen that was killed off by Dugout Doug. The NATO...

Sure, but the Cult of the Rifle was deeply in denial about the utility of having select-fire capability on the rifleman level, using the exact same arguments that the previous Cult of the Rifle had used against magazine-fed repeaters and ignoring that those arguments were completely...

And the "interim" rifle that the Army always hated has gone on to become the longest-serving infantry rifle in its history.