Main Paineframe posted:

it's not 66 bombs, it's 66 cities to destroy

which the paper calculates would require 466 bombs

that said, that paper is on the level of "the US planned to invade Canada in the 1930s" stuff - technically true, but not representative of any actual political or military intention to do so

frankenfreak posted:

"Göring loved coke"

Maximo Roboto posted:

I was going to make a thread for stupid alternate histories, but I might as well use this one.

Suppose the German princes who historically tried to reestablish the monarchy during the Weimar Republic hooked up with the Nazi movement and rode its coattails back to power, winning the monarchist and conservative vote against Hindenburg in 1932. While in power, crown prince Wilhelm starts cracking down on socialists, and turn on the Nazis. How then would history remember the fallen National Socialist movement, and Hitler?

Suplex Liberace posted:

Hello I have a request I need everyone's favorite/good history books. Topic is not super important I just need the biggest list possible to pull from.

Punkin Spunkin posted:

History Dads know pretty much the least about history possible (followed by White Dudes in Military Jackets) so this is more of a tragic moment

Nosfereefer posted:

stalin def fought w/ clowns

Ardent Communist posted:

I always admired the mongols for their achievements....can you imagine being a regular mongol guy and there's this guy who used to be the son of a pretty big leader but then his dad died and nobodies heard much about him for a while and then he's back and aligned all your clans and establish a legal system and starting to conquer all comers.
but they also invaded russia in the winter, and it was to their advantage! cause they could use the rivers as roads for their cavalry.

to bring it back to the modern history, anyone who hasn't read a bit about the establishment of soviet mongolia should read a bit, pretty interesting things happening.

Spangly A posted:

"what if we shoot the wall that ISN'T impenetrable" was a millenia ahead of any european combattant, sure

but I def feel that it would have been difficult to anticipate, or counter, movement of resources and manpower that were completely impossible without an also completely impossible amount of horses, which god had simply given to mongolia as a prank

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Between 24,000 and 100,000 Hereros, 10,000 Nama and an unknown number of San died in the genocide. The first phase of the genocide was characterised by widespread death from starvation and dehydration, due to the prevention of the Herero from leaving the Namib desert by German forces. Once defeated, thousands of Hereros and Namas were imprisoned in concentration camps, where the majority died of diseases, abuse, and exhaustion

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On 2 October, Trotha issued a warning to the Herero:

I, the great general of the German soldiers, send this letter to the Herero. The Herero are German subjects no longer. They have killed, stolen, cut off the ears and other parts of the body of wounded soldiers, and now are too cowardly to want to fight any longer. I announce to the people that whoever hands me one of the chiefs shall receive 1,000 marks, and 5,000 marks for Samuel Maherero. The Herero nation must now leave the country. If it refuses, I shall compel it to do so with the 'long tube' [cannon]. Any Herero found inside the German frontier, with or without a gun or cattle, will be executed. I shall spare neither women nor children. I shall give the order to drive them away and fire on them. Such are my words to the Herero people.

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The Maji Maji Rebellion (German: Maji-Maji-Aufstand, Swahili: Vita vya Maji Maji), was an armed rebellion of Islamic and animist Africans against German colonial rule in German East Africa (modern-day Tanzania). The war was triggered by German Colonial policies designed to force the indigenous population to grow cotton for export. The war lasted from 1905 to 1907, during which 75,000 to 300,000 died, overwhelmingly from famine

vyelkin posted:

don't do anything all day they just sit around farting and laughing at the sound and smell of their own farts

birdstrike posted:

a few words present, mostly unintelligible gibberish

Endman posted:

You make a good point, but on that note did the US extract any wealth from Vietnam? I’d argue it was a significant drain on the core, attempting to hold it.

ArmZ posted:

A Buttery Pastry posted:

no, because a nation is not a state, but a people. the demon cracker nation is the people who identify with white america

Fish of hemp posted:

Did you really use the "The"?

gradenko_2000 posted:

I like the part where Parshall talks about the El Alamein battleplan being partly designed around taking a position that you know the Germans need to counter-attack into/against, and then shifting into the tactical defensive to meet it, where you have an advantage, such as the sponson-armed Grant tanks being able to fight more effectively since being in a defensive role negates the lack of a turret.

it mirrors the American Civil War mentality where you want to move to take strategically important points, but then shift into an operational/tactical defensive, because the actual conduct of a battle favors the defender, even if the "defender" is the side that marched offensively to take key territory before planting their feet and daring the other side to dislodge them

Chamale posted:

Nobody puts the knife down, and that makes it sound ridiculous. You just swap the fork and knife between your hands so that you can use your dominant hand for the current action, which is a lot faster than the European method.

Megamissen posted:

theres a theory that they are descendants on the sumerians

vyelkin posted:

US presidents used to look at maps and think like Paradox game players. A real argument Nixon and Kissinger used to justify their coup in Chile was that if Cuba and Chile were both communist then they would turn all of Latin America into a communist sandwich and conquer the whole region.

Fish of hemp posted:

I mean, what were the good sides of cultural revolution?