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How often do you think American or British officers had to shoot their men for not following orders during battle? I remember reading Lt Ronald Speirs doing that to one of his sergeants. Obviously it won't you weren't fucking around and your men would listen to you more. Did it happen often? Or was it a handful of isolated incidents. Today's culture has changed, but back then I could easily see an officer putting .45 in a man for not following orders back to even the Vietnam era.
>>482686
Rather rarely, IIRC only late war germans and the soviets had to resort to such drastic measures to keep troops in line.
I know the Russians did it all the time during WW1 and WW2. Wouldn't surprise me if the trauma led to an increase in alcoholism. But those guys didn't fuck around. They had to keep up the macho image as well respect as an officer. Add alcohol and a desperate situation, and you got officers blasting their men.
>>482694
What would junior ranking officer typically do if one of his men weren't listening to him? I imagine this got even more complicated if this during a fire fight.
why did everything go so wrong?
Because millions of people were starving to death or living in extreme poverty while a small elite was dining on the finest foods, dressing in furs and doing whatever the fuck they wanted.
There was no possibility of change, so the embittered populace revolted and killed those who had happiness and power.
>>482462
Was the brutal rape and murder of women/children really necessary?
They took that shit WAY too far, like to disgusting levels that in my personal opinion, largely invalidated their claims of just doing it for a better life.
These were bitter and cruel fucking people.
>>482466
Yes they were, but if you were forced to survive for decades with no help, no education, no love, no sex and no reason to continue - you might also feel free to commit such terrible atrocities, simply out of moral numbness.
America has been at war with every major power except Russia.
China
>>482418
Russian Civil War
>>482425
All nations intervention, Yangtzee patrol (China Marines), Korea
>yfw Spartans actually existed
>tfw you realize how dyel the cast of 300 is
Thanks, /fit/.
>>482451
Pretty sure Spartans could beat a hoard of /fit/'s to shit.
>>482497
Only if it was 300 Spartans vs. 1 million 99-pound weaklings
How fucked were if you got injured during WW1? With the medical technology and terrain, infection was all the rage. Had anything really improved since the late 19th century? Morphine for pain, improvements in stabilizing the patient? I know with WW2 there the miracle drug of penicillin. Nowadays assuming the wound you recieve isn't instantly lethal you got good chance of surviving, though the way you live your life might not be so favorable.
>>482371
Fucked is relative, but relative to today, you were fucked.
>>482371
Pretty fucked, they were called the Lost Generation for a reason.
>>482371
>How fucked were if you got injured during WW1?
Very fucked.
You'd live.
Was it worth it?
>>482351
An original print of that work would be worth it.
absolutely. Russia and China rapidly advanced to become superpowers that are major players on the global stage, those two countries practically own the rest of the world, when they move the rest of the world trembles in fear and rushes to kow tow to their wishes. They dictate foreign and financial policy. Sure its a little edgy, but so what a few million peasants died? Thats literally the price of advancement, and we are living in a better Russia for it.
So why exactly is Critical Theory seen as a valid method of analysing anything? The whole concept seems utterly retarded.
At it's core, it makes massive assumptions on how society SHOULD work, based on someone's random opinions of how things SHOULD be. Shouldn't we be taking a more 'free market' based approach to society, giving people equal opportunities then letting most of the aspects of society sort itself out? I'm talking more about things like the distribution of wealth, or the distribution of sexes in certain fields etc.
No...
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It also seems to rely on this mistaken assumption that everyone, no matter the age, gender, ethnicity etc are 100% identical, and that anything other than an equal distribution of all these groups in anything is caused by some kind of manipulation of the 'system', or through 'oppression'.
It ignores the basic biology of things like women generally being more nurturing and hence pursuing more careers in medical/nursing fields.
>>482322
Explain it then.
This is kind of a pleb reddit question, but do we know how he felt about what he started?
>>481669
yes
>“There is no need to carry me to another prison. My life is already ebbing away. I suggest that you nail me to a cross and burn me alive. My flaming body will be a torch to light my people on their path to freedom.”
- Princip 1914
>“I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.”
- Princip 1914
>>481701
Considering the shit Austro-Hungary was doing to the Serbs in that time.
>It is foolish to think that the successes of modern science either prove, or even render probable, the overconfident claim that science alone can reveal to us everything that is real. Feser offers an analogous line of reasoning to expose the fallacy (thereby suitably mocking one of today’s most cherished — and dumbest — cultural prejudices):
>1. 1. Metal detectors have had far greater success in finding coins and other metallic objects in more places than any other method has.
>2....
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"Scientism" is a christ-fag strawman
sophistry
>>481664
>Where were you when scientism was finally and forever BTFO?
I wasn't born when Kuhn published.
What is the point of art?
there is no general point of art. it has a different point in different eras and different cultures.
>>481461
To enpower the STATE
The best art? To steer man's soul towards God
>samurai looked so cool!
Yeah, no they looked like parrots and the armor has tons of weak spots. Why was their armor so poorly made?
>>481314
>Why was their armor so poorly made?
Because Japan was poor as shit.
nips have poor taste, just take a look at their goofy cartoons
>>481314
>implying European armour wasn't equally as ridiculous.
Why is this guy so respected? He had the luckiest set of situations imaginable given to him. He practically got England for free.
>>481130
Because he won the war and conquered a kingdom
>>481150
He got a freeby when it comes to conquest
>>481154
He still won
Is there any historical validity to the reconstruction of ancient martial arts, such as seen in the HEMA/WMA movement?
>>481056
a bit off topic but what's with that bald spot haircut? why was it so common? fashion? I thought it was only a monk thing, are those battlemonks?
>>481056
Is there some sort of chief world history organization that decides whether a reconstruction of something historical is valid?
>>481070
They are quite likely monks yes.
Anyone know where I can get college-level history tests and exams if I'm not a history student?
Let me explain a bit. I'm in college right now but I'm studying something that is not history for the reasons of getting a good career. That said, I love history, and I want to become as expert on the subject as I can despite not being on expert on paper.
I've been reading lots of somewhat "academic level" history books and things like that, and I've been teaching myself Latin and Koine Greek so I can read primary sources. But sometimes...
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Then again perhaps I'm underestimating what professional historians actually know off the tops of their heads. Does the average historian really know, for example, the number of men involved in a particular battle, the order of battle, the commanders, the casualties, etc of a campaign in ancient times? Or do they usually consult the sources and take notes before giving a speech about it or something.
And yes before anyone tells me, I already tried googling it. Didn't get any results, just practice AP exams for generic "world history." I'm looking for specific exams and quizzes over things like Alexander's conquests, the Punic Wars, stuff like that.
You could probably download some. Find an examination body, and History Past Paper.
>beat saxons
>beat irish
>beat franks
vikings were unstoppable force and the best warriors of their time prove me wrong
my ancestors speak to me
>>480828
>prove me wrong
Scandinavia was Christianized.
>>480828
>tfw my ancestors don't speak to me
>>480828
>beat saxon villagers
>beat irish villagers
>got beaten by the Franks at Paris
Vikings are shit, whenever they came up against a trained and organised force they got btfo.
