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Warden posted:I could write an effort-ish post later about how unlikely Finnish independence was, and how several different events had to happen in very specific ways for it happen when it did, if anybody is interested. Oh, it's a great story, I wrote a university paper called "The Accidental State."
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Speaking of WWI's eastern front, did any country besides Bulgaria manage to keep both it's capital and system of government for the whole conflict?
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Feb 26, 2021 20:25
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Gort posted:* Atrocities in Belgium Considering the atrocities perpetrated by colonial Belgium managed scandalize the world even by the standards of the day, I'm curious if the British government made a concerted effort to rehabilite that country in the eyes of the public as WWI loomed.
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Apr 6, 2021 16:43
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Letmebefrank posted:Lotta Svard Very interesting, thank you.
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Apr 18, 2021 15:26
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Was looking up August Storm and I was curious about two things: 1. Did the Kremlin bother ginning up any new casus belli to feed the population like 'revenge for Khalkin' or stage a false flag like the Shelling of Mainla or was it just "We're at war because we said we would and also gently caress them. " 2. Did the leadership have any concerns about the popular reaction to jumping right back into another war or do any assessments along those lines? Also, gently caress they moved fast. What, did they grab the Nazi's amphetamine stockpile? You can barely drive through Manchuria that quickly today. Arbite fucked around with this message at 14:09 on May 6, 2021 |
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May 6, 2021 14:07
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Were any studies done on what an exclusively Austria-Hungary vs Serbia 1914 conflict would have looked like? Certainly heavy casualties and unforced errors from AH to start with but would they have been expected to get their poo poo together if they just had the one front to worry about before internal pressures and embarassment got to be too much?
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May 22, 2021 16:56
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From many threads back, but I remember an excerpt from a novel being posted where two southern characters are having a conversation when one of them out of nowhere brings up how Johnston lost the civil war, and the other character is surprised but immediately says it's more the fault of Bragg. At least it goes something like that. Does that ring any bells?
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Jun 24, 2021 12:17
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I was just walking around the Sekigahara battlefield for the first time in 15 years. The new museum is alright if rather succinct on the history, and also it gets the emblem and spelling of the Shimazu wrong. Also apart from a very rusty blade and some musketballs everything there is a replica compared to what you will find in the Nagoya Tokugawa, Edo-Tokyo museum, etc. Also the music tracks they use for the 4d rumbling and spraying shows aren't nearly as good as Kessen's. As for the battlefield itself there are now plentiful explanations in English at the sites and leading towards it accompanied by beautiful art by the same man who draws for Koei's Nobunaga's Ambition series. However, and I'll need to check my old albums and perhaps my memory is too rosy, but I recall the area between the station and Ishida's encampment being almost wholly pastoral with only a few single story houses, and when I stood on that hill it was so quiet I'd swear you could close your eyes and hear tens of thousands screaming as they charged into battle. Yesterday when I looked from that spot there were several large, garish, multi-storey buildings between it and the station, and incessant loud traffic from a nearby bypass. Still worth visiting, but not ideal. Or as good as I remember, at any rate. Anyway, have any of you returned to a historal battlefield and found it diminished?
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Jun 25, 2021 13:20
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zoux posted:It was Dog of the South by Charles Portis Thank you very much!
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Jun 30, 2021 00:47
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Certainly his thoughts on the bomb at the end are quite interesting considering his history on and imminent return to the front lines.
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Jul 3, 2021 11:25
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How compromised were the communications of the Iraqi army in the lead-up to 2003? Was it as bad any order given from Baghdad was immediately in the hands of American translators?
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US Air Force to send dozens of F-22 fighter jets to the Pacific amid tensions with China]US Air Force to send dozens of F-22 fighter jets to the Pacific amid tensions with China With the full unfair benefit of hindsight, what would the rough costs have been for keeping the F-22 going and using differing airframes for the various other roles vs what they've actually spent on the F-35 and the like?
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Jul 17, 2021 17:44
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So the gimmick with Modern Pentathlon is to simulate the "experience of a 19th-century cavalry soldier behind enemy lines: he must ride an unfamiliar horse, fight enemies with pistol and sword, swim, and run to return to his own soldiers." Are there any memoirs or credible stories with an individual doing all five of these things in one incident?
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Jul 24, 2021 08:39
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Panzeh posted:I mean, can anyone name the corps commanders of either side at Chickamauga other than Thomas? Rosecrans and Bragg's tango is just not a particularly well understood part of the war, and neither do many people know who Johnston's corps commanders or even who all of Sherman's army commanders were in the Atlanta campaign. Off the top of my head Longstreet (speaking of willfully forgotten) who lead the day 2 mid-day assault that found itself charging through the just abandoned part of the center that was off to reinforce Thomas. Oh, and the Bishop who missed his start time due to a late breakfast. Also Forrest was about, though he wasn't a corps commander.
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Aug 1, 2021 23:31
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ZombieLenin posted:By way of technicality, Forrest’s command was a “cavalry corps.” I stand corrected, thank you. wiegieman posted:Thomas didn't write any memoirs and destroyed his own private papers. He didn't exactly promote himself. Speaking of doing it to yourself, outside of Cold Harbor General Meade read a dispatch in his hometown newspaper that so caused him to blow his stack that he had the reporter arrested, driven of camp backwards out on a mule, and played off with 'The Rogue's March.' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaplEF4w9RY This resolved every other reporter to never again mention Meade in a positive light.
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Aug 2, 2021 06:15
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Is there anywhere with very exact figures on Finnish munitions just before the Winter War started? Like, exactly how many artillery shells etc. there were?
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Aug 17, 2021 08:24
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Loezi posted:Numbers. Thank you very much!
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Aug 18, 2021 08:22
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Squalid posted:... Just remembered this old post. About how accurate is this summation and are there any good reads on this particular Yemeni insurgency?
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Aug 26, 2021 19:38
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Cessna posted:Their rifle drill hasn't changed since - er, well... Speaking of, there's a very cute story about Imperial German askari veterans being offered a pension five decades after the war but only a few being able to offer written proof, so they were prompted to perform the old manual of arms. 'Not one of them failed the test.' Almost too nice, is this quite what happened?
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Oct 15, 2021 06:28
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:everything is far too clean 'bout how much blood should spurt when a head's knocked off in a standing position?
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Nov 4, 2021 05:33
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Slim Jim Pickens posted:"Foraging" was common in the ACW. The little stretch of land around Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania was looted bare over the 4 years of back-and-forth. People just write about the March to the Sea like it was unique, like how they write about Atlanta burning as if it was a horrific war crime. It doesn't need to be true, just repeatable. It's funny how Sherman's army was more punitive in South Carolina (and lenient in North Carolina) but Georgia gets all the memory. I suppose because Georgia felt decisive while the latter were foregone.
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Nov 16, 2021 11:41
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I'd seen this video before but hadn't appreciated significance of the general having family from Kansas that fought for the Confederacy. I wonder if they did much bleeding even before Sumpter? I should point out in fairness to the man he seems to have been comparatively progressive on race in the army.
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Dec 1, 2021 06:51
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ZombieLenin posted:I am not going to get in a pissing match about whether or not the South deserved what it got, but I will say it was the first time war was waged against civilians when broader international social norms, and just war philosophy, were starting to realize cognize that there, perhaps, ought to be rules to how wars were fought and that maybe civilians shouldn’t be considered, under any circumstances, legitimate targets of armies. That many Georgians kept asking Sherman's boys to hit South Carolina even harder since they'd started it is one of my favourite tidbits from that campaign
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Dec 1, 2021 13:03
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Epicurius posted:Lee was from Kansas, but his grandfather who fought for the Confederacy, John Hodges, was from Mississippi. His father's family was from Iowa. More and more interesting, thank you!
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Dec 2, 2021 03:28
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In the 1845 French navy, médecin-major would mean medic or doctor of what rank exactly?
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Dec 8, 2021 09:59
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Literally translated it means "Medical Major" or "Major of Medicine". Not sure what the exact Royal Navy rank would be (possibly Surgeon-Lieutenant since there was no lieutenant-commander rank until 1913) but in the British Army it would be Surgeon-Major. Thank you.
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There's an interesting quote from Bruno Sammartino that ties SS and Wehrmarcht and Italy and Germany all together actually, he said that "... (the) town was occupied by Germans, and not just the Germans but the SS." So there could certainly be an appreciable difference by those right under the boot. On another note entirely, I just reading that by the end of the war Lincoln thought it would be ideal if Davis would exile himself after a half-hearted hounding if neccessary. Is that the case and is there any more information about his private plans for Confederate officials?
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Dec 27, 2021 16:34
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Yes.
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Dec 28, 2021 06:19
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What are some examples of an invaded force having successfully stopped their opponent by removing all supplies but leaving a hungry populace that the invader is obliged to take care of, overstretching their logistics?
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Dec 30, 2021 05:18
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Argas posted:Obligatory Legend of Galactic Heroes. Yeah, that's where I first saw it and the exact same thing was just on The Expanse. I was just wondering if there was a real world example they might be drawing from.
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Jan 29, 2022 07:54
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Did Imperial Russia have a strong international espionage setup? I just read something about them having a great many agents around Tokyo during the Russo-Japanese war.
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Feb 4, 2022 09:04
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Fuschia tude posted:Yes, huge. Look up the Third Section and the Okhrana that succeeded it. They mainly targeted Russian dissidents and revolutionaries, both within Russia and abroad, but European revolutionaries considered the Russian Empire their main enemy for most of the 1800s, thanks to its financial and military support of conservative monarchies and attempts to stymie democratic and constitutionalist revolutionary movements all over. They also engaged in intelligence and counterintelligence generally, and supposedly served as the model for the Soviet programs that followed. Quite interesting, thank you.
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Feb 4, 2022 13:17
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Did the Nazis ever seriously consider handing administration and leaving of all of what they recognized as France to the Vichy regime after the BoB? Maybe keeping some naval bases for the duration of the conflict, anything like that?
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Mar 20, 2022 11:35
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I know that Imperial Japan was not tolerant of their own becoming POWs but early WWII must have had some Germans captured by France, how were those treated upon release by the Nazis?
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Apr 16, 2022 14:57
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Speaking of the Civil War, is current scholarship in agreement as to whether Pickett's Charge had a pause to dress the line? As for McClellan, him getting as close as he did to Richmond without a brutal repulse along the way was rather endearing to the army itself for quite some time. Joe Johnston not getting wounded is one of those great what-ifs of the war. Well, probably just moving the Confederate capital again and fighting on but you never know. Terrible politics and a worse information network (drat Pinkertons), but considering the results of his predecessor, and successor, and successor, and successor in the east...
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May 16, 2022 23:32
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I saw people getting mad at Switzerland again about WWII elsewhere, but wasn't France the only country on the continent to declare war on Germany before being attacked? *edit* Except Turkey in Feb 45, I guess.
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May 25, 2022 09:29
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Was reading about Danegeld and it mentioned the offer to loan the Nazis hundreds of millions if they wouldn't attack Poland. Notwithstanding the Soviets, and the madness of giving the Nazis anything again, would say an additional six months before the start have benefitted Poland or Germany more?
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Jun 13, 2022 07:18
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What exactly were the non-material holdups on getting the Flying Tigers over to China?
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samcarsten posted:I thought WWI was too early for fascism? Depends on if you count Action Francais as the first fascists or last protofascists.
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