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Can 16th century European hand to hand combat stand a chance against Chinese/Japanese/Mongolian ones of the same century?
>>364130
>16th century
Everyone had daggers
>>364143
>18th century
Everyone had guns
>>364130
Mongolians don't have martial arts you dumb kuck
As for Chinese/Japanese, depending on context.
With no rules, I can imagine Qin Na and Akido being quite a force to go up against.
When is war justified?
when I say so.
>>364102
When someone attacks you, and that's about it.
All wars are justified in the eye of the instigator, so it's kind of a silly question.
>extremely practical and protective helmet design
>abandoned by late Roman empire and never adopted by any military since
Why?
>>364094
>Your army gits big.
>Issue them easy to make no nonsense helmets
>>364108
Is that nigga wearing fucking chainmail tabis?
Fucking Roman weeaboos I swear to god
if the Romans can see how silly those steel Bucket medieval helmet,I bet they cry wondering how stupid people thousand years later are.
IRA thread.
Just post stuff about the IRA.Discussions and stuff welcome too.
that's a trap
>>363925
I recently got some documents from the Bureau of Military History about my great grandfathers involvement in the Cork branch of the IRA from 1926 till the ceasefire.
He was a battalion leader. So its all about which spies they killed, how they stole weapons, how they mad their explosives.
Could post in a bit if anyone is interested.
OH SHITE LADDO, IT'S A ANODDA POTATO FAMINE
Is a 17 century (specifically, 1688) foot the same as a modern English foot?
Pic unrelated.
No
the ratio of the human body remains constant, therefore, if one part is seen to change measure (ie: height) then you can assume that everything else will also scale with the same factor.
>>363919
>Is a 17 century (specifically, 1688)
Where?
>>363936
England.
Is he the founder of modern sociology?
If so, does it mean that sociology (at least in its positivist and functionalist version) is by its essence authoritarian and anti-liberal?
Who is that again?
I'm pretty sure it just makes for exclusion either on terms for one's self ( for exclusion or against an exclusion ) or for the terms themselves as they stand to contain or maintain.
>>363802
>Who is that again?
>Joseph-Marie, comte de Maistre was a Savoyard philosopher, writer, lawyer, and diplomat. He defended hierarchical societies and a monarchical State in the period immediately following the French Revolution.
> I'm pretty sure it just makes for exclusion either on terms for one's self ( for exclusion or against an exclusion ) or for the terms themselves as they stand to contain or maintain.
I...
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>>363770
He did influence Comte quite a bit, so kind of. It is hard to put de Maistre in a box like that. He was an often crude genius.
Did Shu even have a chance to restore the Han throne or is it just a fantasy?
>inb4 MUH KONGMING PSSH NOTHING PERSONNEL KID
Cute little statelets can do amazing things if their enemies are retarded enough. Shu's enemies were not retarded though so it was pure fantasy.
>>363828
>statelets
What meme is this
>>363745
>>363828
Is she right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Sxttk5REkM
>>363692
No.
>>363692
>Misidentifies tragedy
>Greatest writer of the English language
>Appeal to buzz words
>Misidentifies humanism
>Misidentifies the function of the University (Theology, Medicine)
>Dominant ideology
She's not read Gramsci…
>Knowledge / wisdom
>Founding fathers… most stable and free republic
>Healthy scepticism about human nature
The most abhorrent element of her argument is her total failure to understand what a tragedy is. It makes me throw up in my mouth.
>>363715
Prager University is a hive of bitter right wing cranks pretending to be academics.
Why is Neville Chamberlain the butt of every joke? Was there even a leader at the time who could have appeased war? Everybody forgets FDR was a convenient fucking 'isolationist'.
>>363674
>Why is Neville Chamberlain the butt of every joke?
BECAUSE THE ZIONIST BRITISH REGIME WANTS TO RIDICULE HIM FOR BEING COOPERATIVE WITH THE THIRD REICH.
>>363674
>Everybody forgets FDR was a convenient fucking 'isolationist'.
FDR wasn't isolationist, the country was. The domestic economic downturn made the country look inward to its own problems. The unsatisfying conclusion to WW1 had left a bad taste in the mouths of Americans. Active foreign policy in the US was perceived as unwise 'meddling' in other country's affairs. Among both congress and the public at large there was tremendous sentiment against involving...
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>>363757
'muh versailles' indeed
>Alaskans, Kazakhs, and Finns used to be fellow countrymen
>the last mammoths died while the pyramids were being built
>mongolians were fighting both crusaders and samurai at once
>the filing cabinet was invented the same year as the remote control boat, 30 years before sliced bread
>When pilgrims were landing on Plymouth Rock, you could visit Santa Fe, New Mexico to stay at a hotel, eat at a restaurant and buy native american silver.
>1912 saw the tragic voyage of the Titanic as...
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>>363657
w-what.... saved
>>363657
Was there an eastern equivalent of Marco Polo? Someone who traveled the west and wrote about it?
>>363491
Zheng He, Ibn Battuta if you count the middle east
>>363498
>Ibn Battuta
I love his story, especially his travels through Africa.
He had a pretty odd sense of humor too.
Does this count? You can read his book online.
What did Japan even expect to gain by starting a war with America? What were her war aims? Surely they couldn't have thought they had a chance to conquer it. They were getting embargo'd but how would starting a war change that situation?
>>363408
they wanted to knock the US navy out fast and force to US to trade with them again
>>363408
oil
>>363408
> They were getting embargo'd but how would starting a war change that situation?
I'm going to answer this one first.
Japan wants to continue the war in China at the very least, and keep a war economy going, which requires oil. Prior to this, they had been importing something like 80% of their oil from the U.S., who turned off the spigot in retaliation for the Japanese annexing Indo-China from Vichy France's government.
There is one major source of oil within the Japanese reach, what's now Indonesia, then a Dutch colony.
FDR had promised, publicly, to defend the interests of the Dutch Government-in-Exile, and the Japanese at the very least took this seriously, they thought that if they went into the NEI and seized the oil wells, America would retaliate.
>hat did Japan even expect to gain by starting a war with America? What were her war aims? Surely they couldn't have thought they had a chance to conquer it.
So to answer your first and main question, the plan was to hit the U.S. Pacific fleet real hard in a surprise attack, sink as many capital ships as possible. They gambled, erroneously, that the U.S. wouldn't commit to a long war, you'd have 6 months of shooting, a few ships sunk, and then they'd go home if things got too tough. By catching the U.S. with its proverbial pants down, they could eliminate any real threat for the duration of what they thought would be a short, limited war.
It turned out to be a grave miscalculation, in large part because of how America reacted to a "perfidious sneak attack."
One of my favorite alt-hist questions, one I don't think gets nearly enough attention, is what would have happened if the Japanese called FDR's bluff. Would America have actually declared war to defend the Indonesians? And if so, would it have been the total, almost holy war that historically developed, or could Japan's plan of fighting a short war and coming to the peace table with honor have actually happened?
>"We will bury you."
what did he mean by this?
>>363354
He meant that he came out of his mom's ass, instead of the customary opening in the vagina.
>>363354
We will be there at your funeral.
>>363354
that hes going to be revisionist shit and outright lie about comrade stalin
Why did the Persians have such bad equipment during the wars with the Greeks? You get several classical sources that stated that Hoplites fighting Persian troops were almost like fighting unarmed men, that their weapons and armor were so useless in close combat that they might not have existed.
Why?
I mean, the Achaemenids had a lot of population and a lot of wealth to draw upon. How come they couldn't make bronze armor like the much smaller, poorer Greeks?
Who was writing these sources?
>>363275
Why did the Persians have such bad equipment during the war with the Iraq (the 1980's one) and still managed to hold their own?
Because Persia heavily prioritized cavalry.
What are some good books on Ethiopian history and/or culture?
WE
>>363256
Want to learn about Ethiopian history.
>>363260
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