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Favorite War?

Started by Kleves, January 13, 2012, 04:10:39 PM

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Which is your favorite war?

Punic Wars
3 (8.1%)
Other Ancient War
4 (10.8%)
Hundred Years' War
2 (5.4%)
Other Medieval War
0 (0%)
Thirty Years War
1 (2.7%)
Other Early Modern War
2 (5.4%)
Napoleonic Wars
2 (5.4%)
American Civil War
4 (10.8%)
World War I
5 (13.5%)
World War II
12 (32.4%)
Other Modern War
2 (5.4%)

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Josephus

#15
January 13, 2012, 04:50:28 PM
Yeah, just realized it's a hundred years old. We should have a commemorative parade.

Maybe dig up some dead Yankee soldier remains and pee on them.

OK, I am just being sarcastic and not trolling..  :lol:
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Barrister

#16
January 13, 2012, 04:57:12 PM
Quote from: Josephus on January 13, 2012, 04:50:28 PM
Yeah, just realized it's a hundred years old. We should have a commemorative parade.

:hmm:
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Sheilbh

#17
January 13, 2012, 05:01:04 PM
I'm not a massive fan of military history.  Probably the English Civil War, followed by the French Revolutionary wars.  But my reading on that is exclusively French Revolutionary, I've not read a great deal on the Napoleonic wars.
Let's bomb Russia!

Ed Anger

#18
January 13, 2012, 05:06:52 PM
The war against Timmayism.
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Barrister

#19
January 13, 2012, 05:11:44 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on January 13, 2012, 05:01:04 PM
I'm not a massive fan of military history.  Probably the English Civil War, followed by the French Revolutionary wars.  But my reading on that is exclusively French Revolutionary, I've not read a great deal on the Napoleonic wars.

Well there's military history and then there's history during war time.

Some guys get off on all the detailed military manouvers and tactics.  It's not really my thing.  But wars are times of enormous political and social upheaval and change, and that kind of stuff is wildly interesting.
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Sheilbh

#20
January 13, 2012, 05:22:55 PM
Quote from: Barrister on January 13, 2012, 05:11:44 PM
Well there's military history and then there's history during war time.

Some guys get off on all the detailed military manouvers and tactics.  It's not really my thing.  But wars are times of enormous political and social upheaval and change, and that kind of stuff is wildly interesting.
Yeah.  The latter I find interesting.  But I'm not terribly interested in histories of specific campaigns, battles or war from a military perspective.

On the other hand I do find history of the military quite interesting.  Rodgers' history of the Royal Navy's superb.
Let's bomb Russia!

grumbler

#21
January 13, 2012, 06:19:34 PM
Quote from: Josephus on January 13, 2012, 04:41:30 PM
I'm ashamed to admit I know so little about this. PBS recently had a decent documentary about it and I found it quite interesting. I do need to pick up a book or two.

Read http://www.amazon.com/Amateurs-Arms-Military-History-Campaigns/dp/0306806533

By far the most interesting book I have read on the topic, and while Elting does have his jones for Winfield Scott (and his knife out for Andrew Jackson), he is very even-handed in his treatment of the campaigns.  He is big on explaining why, not just what.  Plus, he was just a natural storyteller.
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Darth Wagtaros

#22
January 13, 2012, 06:22:39 PM
The war on Trotskyism.
PDH!

Sophie Scholl

#23
January 13, 2012, 06:32:43 PM
Quote from: grumbler on January 13, 2012, 06:19:34 PM
Quote from: Josephus on January 13, 2012, 04:41:30 PM
I'm ashamed to admit I know so little about this. PBS recently had a decent documentary about it and I found it quite interesting. I do need to pick up a book or two.

Read http://www.amazon.com/Amateurs-Arms-Military-History-Campaigns/dp/0306806533

By far the most interesting book I have read on the topic, and while Elting does have his jones for Winfield Scott (and his knife out for Andrew Jackson), he is very even-handed in his treatment of the campaigns.  He is big on explaining why, not just what.  Plus, he was just a natural storyteller.
:thumbsup:  Added to the wishlist.  Have any suggestions on the F&I War?
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11B4V

#24
January 13, 2012, 06:37:00 PM
But seriously, besides the Russian theater durinng WW2, the Crimean and Franco-Prussian Wars.
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Martinus

#25
January 13, 2012, 06:40:13 PM
The Hundred Years War, for the sheer number of cultural references and tropes it inspired.

The Brain

#26
January 13, 2012, 06:45:01 PM
The War of Neanderthal Aggression.
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grumbler

#27
January 13, 2012, 07:13:38 PM
Quote from: Benedict Arnold on January 13, 2012, 06:32:43 PM
:thumbsup:  Added to the wishlist.  Have any suggestions on the F&I War?

Still looking for the readable and comprehensive account myself.   :(
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Sophie Scholl

#28
January 13, 2012, 07:28:21 PM
Quote from: grumbler on January 13, 2012, 07:13:38 PM
Quote from: Benedict Arnold on January 13, 2012, 06:32:43 PM
:thumbsup:  Added to the wishlist.  Have any suggestions on the F&I War?

Still looking for the readable and comprehensive account myself.   :(
Damn.  It definitely is one of the lesser written about wars from what I've seen.  Let me know if you find anything good during your searches.
"Everything that brought you here -- all the things that made you a prisoner of past sins -- they are gone. Forever and for good. So let the past go... and live."

"Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did."

Josephus

#29
January 13, 2012, 07:47:32 PM
Quote from: Barrister on January 13, 2012, 04:57:12 PM
Quote from: Josephus on January 13, 2012, 04:50:28 PM
Yeah, just realized it's a hundred years old. We should have a commemorative parade.

:hmm:

200 years.  :D That's why I'm a journalist...my math is not so good.
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