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Why do people still believe, that knights were stupid and sluggish fighters that swung around 20 lbs of steel?
where did this ridiculous meme come from?
>>1320249
wee-a-boos
>>1320249
It mostly seems to come from 18th and 19th century pseudohistorians, trying to portray themselves as much more enlightened and intelligent than those brutish middle age people.
>>1320249
>does your pommel even half sword
During the years between WW1 and WW2, you see a marked increase in the power of aircraft as military weapons. So it's perhaps inevitable that the air forces* would seek to assert themselves against their departmental rivals in the army and navy and the like.
But if you look at particulars, you see a split, at least between the Anglo-American world and the Germans, which is what I've been reading about lately. Over in England and the U.S., you see an attempt by the air force to distance itself from other branches, insistence that wars can be won through airpower alone, and eschewing roles like being "flying artillery" for the ground troops, or naval bombing, and attempting to push through with strategic bombing initiatives, since that's the way you can theoretically win a war just with airplanes.
Over in Germany, you get the reverse phenomenon, instead of the Air force trying to distance itself from other branches, you see the Luftwaffe trying to assimilate other branches into itself. AA was the province of the Luftwaffe, even when AA guns were often used as AT guns, it was Luftwaffe personnel manning them. Airbase "Security forces" kept expanding and organizing akin to Heer ones, until Herman Goerring had his own panzer division. The defense of Italy was commanded by a Luftwaffe man, and that front saw far more infantry and artillery use out of the Germans than plane use.
Why did England and the U.S. go one way and Germany the other? Does anyone know?
*Yes, I'm aware that in several major powers, most notably the U.S., there was no independent air force command. I'm still using the term for convenience.
Bumping this for interest
>>1320236
It probably has something to do with the structure of the Nazi state, which was far less homogeneous than it looked from the outside. There were various factions within the Nazi state that were competing for power, and Goering's Luftwaffe was one of them.
It's an obvious matter of geography. Germany would be bound to fight wars primarily right across it's borders without the additional necessity or protection of naval forces and transportation over water. This means a war on the ground, so combined arms as a means of backing up infantry and armor is the most important usage of air.
The UK and US were separated from the European mainland (and other theaters) by large or not so large bodies of water, negating a purely ground warfare approach.
What's the most /his/ of video games?
>>1320097
Probably any game from the Grigsby series since they're less games and more realistic army level commander simulators.
>>1320097
Go with the Avalon Hill Civilization, not the Sid Meir one.
>>1320097
paradox games
Why didn't Romans invented hieroglyphs, while China didn't invented letters?
>>1319989
Not all Chinese characters descended from pictographic representations of objects.
>>1319989
Romans near got everything they had as a civilization from the Greeks. I can't think of anything originally theirs.
>>1319989
Are you from a different country?
>arrive in previously uncontacted empire
>get native pussy almost immediately
Why were conquistadores so great with women?
Bitches ain't shit but hoes and tricks, they love nothing more than that conqueror dick.
The natives thought they were gods
Amerindian civilizations were neither isolated from the rest of the world, nor ignorant regarding the origin of the Europeans (they didn't think that they were "gods"; that is ridiculous).
Who was the equivalent figure of this guy in Asia ? Cao Cao ?
>>1319831
Qin Shih Huang.
>>1319898
FPBP
>>1319831
Cao Cao fits best, seized power from the inside and never openly took over, his heir did.
Qin Shi Huang was more like long lived Alexander.
ITT: we tell our love for the glorious father of true philosophy aka mathematic realism aka objective Beauty, Truth, Good, and Justice
plz aristotelician shit GTFO
>>1319761
plato is honestly retarded and awful, please kill yourself
Glory to the monad and his prodigal son, Plato. Truth is indeed objective, and virtue is indeed the luster of a goldened soul, and Beauty is surely the splendor of the Real!
>>1319769
Spotted the appetitive-souled individual.
Will this board ever be able to maturely discuss things like vikings or Wehrmacht or have the fanboys as well as contrarians forever ruined that possibility?
Pic unrelated
>Vikings
Crybabies who project modern morality on medieval people can't do it
>Nazis
A split between 14/88 GAS THE KIKES RACEWAR NOW and whiny American jews exaggerating
No subjects regarding fascism, nazis, Germanic history and eugenics as well as others can never be discussed seriously on this board or anywhere on the internet frankly. Pol is bigger than 4chan now, and has combined It's user base with much of 4chan, stormfront, a large population from Reddit, and various other alternative news and neoconservative websites. Their is no end to their retardation
>>1319711
>it's all those /pol/ meanies fault!!
You leftists sure like acting like victims despite /leftypol/ regularly organising raids of /his/
can music be good, or is that a social construct?
can art be beautiful, or is that a social construct?
Plenty is from my perspective.
Anything that can be understood as a social construct can be taken as a personal understanding.
If you are asking if there is objective beauty or goodness, then I don't think so.
Is rape wrong, or is that a social construct?
Why is free will important to identity? Does pre-determined fate lessen the human condition? If so, why? Is it so bad to experience what is?
Dumb phone poster.
Notice how I didn't link to your post. No YOUs for you smelly phoneposter.
Either way it doesn't matter imo
>1319499
OPs don't get (You)s you fucking newfag
If you were a pedophile, the kind that was attracted to really young children would you castrate yourself?
Wouldn't it be the most morally righteous thing to do in that situation?
>>1319263
Castration shouldn't be necessary if you're able to develop enough self control.
>>1319263
why the fuck would I do that? not going to do that just to avoid thought crimes. I have enough self-control to not fuck kids
>>1319263
I think of beating the shit out of people constantly and while I have self control to count to 10 and not swing on them, I don't think to cut my arms off.
You know, victimizers are victimizers, and I'm not entirely sure every rapist is even sexually interested specifically in the person they victimize. I don't think "all child rapists are pedophiles", I think many are people who want to hurt something inside themselves or something inside someone else, or just to hurt people. I think...
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I've heard vague rumors for years that this word traces back to the Sun God of Egypt: "Amun-Ra" or "Amen-Ra." All Internet sources seem heavily biased one way or another; there doesn't seem to be any reliable objective info...perhaps nobody knows.
There was a lot of cultural interchange sloshing around the Mediterranean when Christianity formed in late antiquity. Pseudo-Egyptian mystery cults were all the rage. Let's not forget that Christianity springs from Judaism and by their own traditions, Jews claim to have been slaves in Egypt...
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>>1319259
no. Amen is from the Hebrew, literally "Amen". It's not an emotionally charged issue.
Literally Zeitgeist-tier rumors. >>1319266 has it right.
>>1319259
>Christian
Its literally in all Abrahamic shit prayers. It simply means "so be it.
Did this film accuratley portray the stuff the army was using in the Vietnam war?
>>1319209
What do you mean, like, drugs and M16s, or what?
>>1319209
There are better films than Forrest Gump that depict the American soldiers' perspective of Vietnam. Platoon is good, Hamburger Hill, Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket, Jacob's Ladder.
>>1319209
yes
Why did Germany declare war on the United States after Pearl Harbor?
Why did the Pacific and European conflicts need to be part of the same war?
The Germans were allied to Japan...
>>1319171
>Why did Germany declare war on the United States after Pearl Harbor?
Because unlike the rest of Europe, Germany actually respects their alliances?
>>1319171
I know that Germanotard mind has troubles with comprehending basic things like "not stabbing everybody in the back on every possible occasion" but this was one rare occasion where Hitler kept his promise. He was allied with Japan, so he had to do it.
Any historical examples of a Pyrrhic victory?
Bonus points for being baited into a win and then losing a war.
Well if you didn't knew phyrric victory comes from Pyrrhus of Epirus in the first Punic war who always won the battle but could not reinforce in the way Rome could, so his casualties meant more to him than e Roman casualties Medano to the Romans
Pyrrhus' invasion of Italy
>>1319066
>Punic war
>Pyrrhus of Epirus
pick one
