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German tourist add to the rescue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjkojS1QFEc&t=5s ThisIsJohnWayne fucked around with this message at 12:49 on May 1, 2016 |
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Thanks for the reinactment images Raskolnikov38! Also, holy gently caress we might hit 1000 pages in the coming week!
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May 1, 2016 13:17
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Speaking of, do y'all think it might be time for a new thread? It's probably a pretty loving daunting feat to read this one from the beginning at this point, it might be scaring off some potential new posters.
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May 1, 2016 15:19
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Since this one will be gold mined, I think 1k pages is a good stopping off point. People doing mega posts might need some time to gather their stuff together to continue in the new thread if there is one now.
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May 1, 2016 15:31
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I read all of it over two weeks, was a good read, like a book that kept taking weird tangents. I'd say 1k pages just because its 1k.
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May 1, 2016 15:32
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I want all of George the Objector stuff in the new thread, it's solid gold from a historical perspective and super interesting to me personally.
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May 1, 2016 16:33
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P-mack's stuff and the Soviet tank development
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May 1, 2016 16:36
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The Polish-Soviet War write up and the Special Operation of the 2nd World War too, the goons writing them seem to be terribly busy at the moment.
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May 1, 2016 16:43
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Rather than start a new thread, why not just re-work the OP with links to all the really neat stuff. Put a note in it to the effect of "you odn't need to read all 1000 pages of this, but here is some notable cool stuff" There's no reason for anyone to read fifty pages broken across ten incidents of us talking about tank suspensions or whatever but consigning some of the good effort posts like the Chinese Taiping war stuff or the CO diaries to the archives would be unfortunate.
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May 1, 2016 17:02
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The goldmine is readily accessible without archives though.
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May 1, 2016 17:20
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:Any Kraut-speakers ITT know the pronunciation of Sylt? My dumb English-speaking mind says it should sound like "Silt" but I assume that's wrong. When a "y" comes in the middle of a word it represents a rounded "i". When you pronounce the vowel sound in the English word "silt" your lips are relaxed, but when you make the vowel sound in "Sylt" your lips should describe an O shape. Also, in German initial "s" followed by a vowel is a voiced consonant, meaning it sounds like "z". It should sound more like "Zoolt" (not a perfect representation, but close).
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May 1, 2016 17:24
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Cyrano4747 posted:Rather than start a new thread, why not just re-work the OP with links to all the really neat stuff. Put a note in it to the effect of "you odn't need to read all 1000 pages of this, but here is some notable cool stuff" Pitty this thread hasn't spawned more books then it already has. Welp, since the thread might not last the day... 
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May 1, 2016 17:45
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:Any Kraut-speakers ITT know the pronunciation of Sylt? My dumb English-speaking mind says it should sound like "Silt" but I assume that's wrong. It's a ü.
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May 1, 2016 18:22
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An informative article looking into the past of counter insurgency tactics.
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May 1, 2016 18:34
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It actually is the IPA symbol /y/, a high mid rounded vowel. Basically, make the sound in "heat" a couple of times, then make the sound in "hoot". Can you feel how the first sound is farther forward in your mouth than the second sound? What you want to do is bring the second sound about half-way forward towards the first sound, while keeping your lips rounded. Make sense? And fyi the IPA for the word is /zylt/. PS this is why everyone should take Intro to Linguistics.
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I've been reading a book that's on Insurgency and Radical Islamism. It's called "The Management of Savagery." It's supposedly written by the head of ISIS and is basically a book on how to run an Insurgency. I don't know if I'm allowed to link it, so I'll stay on the safe side. Edit: Just checked, the Abu Bakr who wrote this is not the same Abu Bakr who runs ISIS.
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May 1, 2016 19:02
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I wonder what Abu Hajaar wrote.
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it seems to be a fools errand for precisely the reason noted in the article: "One basic difference between insurgency and counterinsurgency is that the insurgent starts out with nothing but a cause and grows to strength, while counterinsurgent often starts with everything but a cause and gradually declines in strength to the point of weakness" successful tactics/ideas seem to only apply narrowly(protected villages in malaya, which didn't work in kenya) or scale poorly(combined action patrols in vietnam, seluous scouts in rhodesia(a bit of a stretch)). its interesting that the author notes how barbarity(torture, mass/indiscriminate killings) crept into the counter-insurgents toolbox. its kind of the one hallmark of a *counterinsurgency: they tend to end up doing terrible things to the people of the country in question. edit: the rational actor thing is interesting as well. im not as well versed in this but americans tend to like to break the world down in classes or stratifications or rankings etc. each individual within that class or rank is interchangeable with another but has distinct characteristics from those in other classes or groups. its, supposedly, how we like to view the world. vains fucked around with this message at 20:59 on May 1, 2016 |
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Xerxes17 posted:I wonder what Abu Hajaar wrote. "On the management of hot brass and RPG backblast"
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Interesting article, but I had to chuckle a bit at the end: quote:And David Petraeus is tipped by some to be the next US president but one. Yeah, about that...
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MassivelyBuckNegro posted:it seems to be a fools errand for precisely the reason noted in the article: I think that the expectation of one universally applicable strategy is missing that it's really important to engage with what makes the insurgency tick and what makes people in the population angry enough to join the insurgency, as well as what would encourage the population to stay and encourage the insurgents to stop.
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May 1, 2016 23:33
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Adam Curtis is a ding dong and people take his poo poo way too seriously.
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Cyrano4747 posted:Rather than start a new thread, why not just re-work the OP with links to all the really neat stuff. Put a note in it to the effect of "you odn't need to read all 1000 pages of this, but here is some notable cool stuff" Unless somebody does this work for me it literally will not happen.
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:Adam Curtis is a ding dong and people take his poo poo way too seriously.  e: specifically about the article in question, and I guess counterinsurgency in general StashAugustine fucked around with this message at 00:37 on May 2, 2016 |
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May 2, 2016 00:19
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Adam Curtis: The Loving Trap of Pandora's Nightmares 100 Years Ago It's the 25th of April. Military efforts having failed, General Townshend is now trying to bribe his way out of Kut. We'll see how that goes. We'll also see how BEF Intelligence goes; right now it's expending considerable effort in trying to work out which conscript class the German army is sending to the front, and for very good reasons. Grigoris Balakian goes a-workin' on the railroad; E.S. Thompson continues the safari to nowhere; Louis Barthas passes through a destroyed village that's fast rebuilding itself; and the results of Maximilian Mugge's medical board have come through.
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Rodrigo Diaz posted:Unless somebody does this work for me it literally will not happen. I've got some time over the next week so there's a chance I might actually try to do something like this, if no one else is up for it. Edit: Though it might be easier if everyone just quoted their favorite posters/posts. Acebuckeye13 fucked around with this message at 02:09 on May 2, 2016 |
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May 2, 2016 02:01
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Acebuckeye13 posted:I've got some time over the next week so there's a chance I might actually try to do something like this, if no one else is up for it. You can do half of it by just displaying all posts from the superstars who are droppign those high content serial posts
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May 2, 2016 02:11
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Thanqol posted:They used a missile to deliver mail? What? Why? Because it was loving awesome.
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Acebuckeye13 posted:I've got some time over the next week so there's a chance I might actually try to do something like this, if no one else is up for it. Just emptyquote the best HEY GAL story for the next OP.
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May 2, 2016 02:58
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Ensign Expendable posted:Just emptyquote the best keldoclock story for the next OP.
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New OP: Welcome to the military history thread! Shut the gently caress up Keldoclock.
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May 2, 2016 03:35
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That clock is stopped now. Sleep well, sweet general and may angels of (something something military puns)
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May 2, 2016 04:06
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Greatest thread, a shining beacon in this dark alley of the internet.
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May 2, 2016 04:10
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New OP needs best quotes from keldoclock and fred leander.
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Let's not forget our old friend  :Agesilaus posted:Politically, culturally, economically, and socially, many modern societies are flawed in certain respects compared to ancient societies like that of Sparta. Modern America, for example, is oppressed by the nobility clause, does not have an explicit class-based society, and in many ways is governed and controlled by low class people given over to money. Importantly, the institutions are designed to be vulgar and are beholden to lower class interests. Come to think of it, I'm pretty sure that guy was some kind of Dark Enlightenment type before that became the delusion of choice for internet wackos. Grand Prize Winner fucked around with this message at 05:02 on May 2, 2016 |
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May 2, 2016 04:40
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The nobility clause: truly, the very root of oppression.
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May 2, 2016 05:22
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So that's what that's from
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May 2, 2016 05:28
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Yeah, that guy was a hoot and a half.
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I forgot about keldoclock for a bit, may his awful posts live forever.
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EvanSchenck posted:It should sound more like "Zoolt" (not a perfect representation, but close). If someone told me he came from "Zoolt", I would assume it's an alien trying to tell me it comes from planet Zoolt. Then again, I've never in my life heard an English speaker correctly pronounce "ü", so maybe I'm a bit unfair. 
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