Who was the best Naval commander in history? I nominate Chester Nimitz. What he did simply could not have been accomplished by any other Naval commander in history. What do you guys think makes a truly good Naval commander, and how is it different from that of an army commander?
What do you honestly think Nimitz did that was so special? Not much really, US leadership in the Pacific left a lot to be desired compared to other theaters of war. Don't get me wrong, he was OK, but he's guilty like all the rest of failing to incorporate economics into the broader war strategy. Only 4% of carrier strikes were targeted at Japanese merchant shipping but they did 13% of the damage.
It's just stupid reading about how admirals and even guys like LeMay prolonged the war for months by completely ignoring this issue.
>>325530
Battle of Midway
What do you think about Chomsky /his/?
He's Harrison Ford.
>>325481
Pretty good ideas and insight into linguistics though tends to be far too abstract sometimes.
Still much better and far easier to understand than this guy though.
>>325481
Sounds pretty retarded when talking about politics
Would've-failed-Econ101-tier
How can you know which one is right?
Pray to God and he will answer
Ecclesia Catholica Romana
>>325473
Catholics are pedos
What type of cross was Jesus of Nazareth most likely crucified on?
It is commonly accepted that a sign stating "Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews" was affixed above him, so this seems to discredit the idea that it was a tau crucifix (pic related)
The Jehovah's Witnesses claim he was crucified on a crux simplex, or just a simple stake. The Orthodox Church asserts that a bar was placed beneath his feat so as to support his weight (which is where the Three Barred Cross comes from)
So which is most likely?
No cross at all. He wasn't real.
>>325383
>inb4 shitstorm
There is plenty of historical evidence for the existence of Jesus. Whether or not he was the Christ and his miracles are real are not relevant to this discussion.
Is morality subjective?
>>325298
Yes.
>>325298
No.
Next question.
Lets discuss this man /his/.
He lead my country out of its racist past. Hes a hero.
>>325158
back to /pol/
>>325158
i know mandela wasn't exactly a saint, but didn't he at least take precautions to evacuate the buildings he bombed?
i know his wife, or ex-wife rather, was batshit insane though.
ITT: The Pacific War
From Burma to the Aleutian Islands, there's so much to discuss about the Pacific War
Claim your shipfu
no there isn't
>>325031
Wish I could've removed some nips with these guys.
Analytical or continental philosophy?
A fusion of the two
>>324705
Analytical philosophy is more efficient, continental philosophy is more interesting. Acknowledging only one while discarding the other makes you a dumbass.
False dichotomy
Pointless anyway
Could Hitler have achieved his Lebensraumy dreams if Poland was allied with the USSR instead of Britain and France?
>>324458
Churchill would have needed to have died before the invasion to prevent Britain from entering the war regardless. A strong Germany was a clear threat to the imperial England and Churchill never shied away from war.
>>324458
both ways it requires a tactically and statigically sound fuhrer, not some madcap fantacist like Hitler
>>324595
And you can't mobilize Germany without a leader who irrationally mythologizes Germany's destiny. There never would have been a perfect Reich.
There are people on /his/ right now, that unironically believe nationalism existed in any form, prior to the 19th century when it started.
>>324401
Well, nobody ever said nationalists were smart.
Technically nationalism started in late 18th century.
Also back in the ancient days we had tribalism.
>>324410
No it didn't. The only legitimate form of nationalism is ethnic nationalism, which started in the 19th century
When did last names came to be? Are there any cultures without last names? IIRC Atatürk made a reform where everyone in Turkey had to get a last name. Was there any country where they had some other identification structure or none at all?
>inb4 that one anon complains that the .com ruins the image
>>324359
Well in East Asia, they are first names.
What exactly do you mean by last name? Are you including references such as x from y and/or z son of y? If you don't include the latter then Island is a prime example of an existing country which does not uses last names.
Poland, a country the fraction the size of France, with a fraction of the economic, industrial and military power, was attacked by Germany AND Russia and resisted for over a month.
Poland had no tanks, no modern air power, barely any artillery or anti-tank guns, and was terribly outnumbered. They had no allies and no help.
They resisted for 36 days.
France, a huge, leading military power, had Char 1-B tanks markedly superior to German machines, fuck-ton of artillery, lines of heavy fortification, modern fighter planes, and endless blowjobs from Parisian whores.
They were NOT attacked by the Russians, and had the British Expeditionary Force aiding them in battle, as well as Belgian troops when the French/British forces finally acted and joined forces when Belgium was attacked.
France lasted 35 days
Can someone explain this?
>>324348
>Poland had no tanks
Wrong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7TP
They also made use of French built R 35s
> no modern air power
Wrong.
PZL 11s, 23s, and 37s.
> barely any artillery or anti-tank guns
They had well over a thousand field guns; I'm less sure about ATGs, but most armies would field similar numbers of each.
>France lasted 35 days
If you start counting from Fall Gelb, they lasted 45 days.
>Can someone explain this?
Field resistance in Poland ended extremely soon, and 10 days into the invasion, you only really had pockets of resistance in Warsaw and Lodz. City fighting takes a long time, you can't use a lot of the quickeners of modern war, air, artillery, armor to the same extent.
France surrendered when the field army got cut off and was in a hopeless position, without making futile gestures of city resistance.
even if some of that info was wrong, Polands resistance was still pretty impressive.
the polish have always been fighters
THREAD ON THE GREATEST AND MOST BASED COUNTLY ON EARTH.
I WRITE IN CAPS BECAUSE I AM A YELLING JAPANESE MAN
URRRRRRTIMATE SACLIFICEEEEEEEEEEEE
HIROHITO DID NOTHING WRONG
Also, how effective was the imperial army as a fighting force just before WW2, when they were in China?
>>324285
THEY WERE FIGHTING FOR THE EMPERRORRRRRRRRRRRRRR
>Now [Bohemond] was such as, to put it briefly, had never before been seen in the land of the Romans [that is, Greeks], be he either of the barbarians or of the Greeks (for he was a marvel for the eyes to behold, and his reputation was terrifying). Let me describe the barbarian's appearance more particularly – he was so tall in stature that he overtopped the tallest by nearly one cubit, narrow in the waist and loins, with broad shoulders and a deep chest and powerful arms. And in the whole build of the body he was neither too slender nor overweighted with flesh, but perfectly proportioned and, one might say, built in conformity with the canon of Polycleitus... His skin all over his body was very white, and in his face the white was tempered with red. His hair was yellowish, but did not hang down to his waist like that of the other barbarians; for the man was not inordinately vain of his hair, but had it cut short to the ears. Whether his beard was reddish, or any other colour I cannot say, for the razor had passed over it very closely and left a surface smoother than chalk... His blue eyes indicated both a high spirit and dignity; and his nose and nostrils breathed in the air freely; his chest corresponded to his nostrils and by his nostrils...the breadth of his chest. For by his nostrils nature had given free passage for the high spirit which bubbled up from his heart. A certain charm hung about this man but was partly marred by a general air of the horrible... He was so made in mind and body that both courage and passion reared their crests within him and both inclined to war. His wit was manifold and crafty and able to find a way of escape in every emergency. In conversation he was well informed, and the answers he gave were quite irrefutable. This man who was of such a size and such a character was inferior to the Emperor alone in fortune and eloquence and in other gifts of nature.
Let's settle this: was Anna Komenena dicked by Bohemond?
>>324080
She was 14 when that happened
And she wrote that when she was 89.
>yfw never be so handsome octogenarian women masturbate to your memory.
BIG
NORMAN
Name a historical civilization that no longer exists and some sort of law it had that was innovative for the time.
Rome
>>324120
Cool.
Golden Liberty in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, first modern example of democracy.
