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I'm trying to remember the name of a particular tactic done by the Tokugawa army that was later done by the British army. It's where musketeers fire and then move back behind a line while they reload. This is done over and over so that you can have continuous musket fire. Thanks!
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Also, did the British actually do anything innovative, or did they just steal everything from the Dutch? (They did corporations, crop rotation, military tactics, and the British got rich off it.)SHISHKABOB posted:Why do we fight wars? Because some video games are intrinsically better than others.
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Nov 14, 2013 00:14
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There is a Japanese history thread if you guys want to talk about things that have to do with samurais and ninjas and stuff! http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3605918
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Jan 31, 2014 05:52
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So, today in my Revolutionary War class, we learned that the Colonial Militia surprised the British at Concord by preforming a complicated maneuver called the Ring of Fire. How could they have learned this? The militia was poorly trained, so how did they pull this off?
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May 15, 2014 17:37
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Hi, I like tanks, especially the tanks of WWII, is there a nice overview book about tank use in WWII? I'm looking for a book with specs, production details, use in battle, etc.
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Jul 6, 2014 04:11
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gradenko_2000 posted:This is focused on German tanks specifically and might not have a lot on statistics and raw numbers, but Dennis Showalter's Hitler's Panzers has a good overview on tank development, doctrinal development and the evolution and use of Panzers as WWII went on. Thanks for the reply. I will look into it, but I was wondering if there was another book that focuses on other tanks, especially the Soviet ones?
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Jul 6, 2014 04:46
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Slim Jim Pickens posted:Do you have any examples of ancient countries and huge armies? Depends on what you count as ancient, but the Aztec fighting force was several hundred thousand. You'd never know it though, because they'd fight multi-front wars of attrition that spread their armies thin. Smoking Crow fucked around with this message at 18:54 on Jul 7, 2014 |
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Jul 7, 2014 18:49
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the JJ posted:To be fair, a fair chunk of that is warriors provided by conquered altepetls as well as the actual Triple Alliance. The same could be said of the Persians since most of the Persian sailors at Salamis were Ionian Greeks.
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Jul 7, 2014 19:43
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the JJ posted:Sure, but there's some ambiguity in the term 'Aztec fighting force.' Is it the fighting force that is controlled by the Aztec empire or the 'ethnically' Aztec soldiers? If I was going to specify the "ethnically Aztec" warriors, I would say Mexica. I know that Aztec isn't the name of the actual place, but that's what laymen know and I'm trying to be gracious. Speaking of, do you consider troops called up from the various S.S.R.'s as being strictly Tatar, Siberian or Manchurian or do you consider them Soviet?
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Jul 7, 2014 20:07
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Cyrano4747 posted:I get where you're going with your analogy, but comparing the WP and the Aztecs like that really doesn't work because the WP/NATO were a coalition of alliances between (theoretical) equals, not empires dominated by a single major nation. A better analogy would be if in a theoretical NATO/WP throw down the USSR started splintering and you had, say, the Ukraine flipping sides. A Pole serving in a Polish Army unit that is part of some WP formation is going to have a lot less identity-based introspection to do than an ethnic Ukranian serving in a soviet rifle regiment. I wasn't meaning to say the Warsaw Pact nations, I meant the various SSR's under the USSR, like the Azerbaijan SSR, Ukrainian SSR and Georgian SSR.
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Jul 7, 2014 22:28
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OctaviusBeaver posted:So what exactly did the Soviet government want encircled soldiers to do? If they surrendered they were traitors but if they broke out they were also probably traitors? Not get encircled or die.
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Jul 10, 2014 03:46
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The Merry Marauder posted:
I know about this because my friend took a classical drama class and they had to read this edition of the Bacchae. 
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Jul 21, 2014 18:51
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bewbies posted:I need a new book. Recommendations? Any period, any topic. History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides or Commentary on the Gallic Wars by Julius Caesar.
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Jul 25, 2014 00:42
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A joke my WWII professor told: What's the difference between German and French paratroopers? The Germans are hunters, the French are the hunted.
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