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My 2 Cents.While I don't like McCain I will probably be holding my nose and voting for him. Plainly put, Obama scares the hell out of me and I simply don't trust anyone that thinks they can spend my money better than I can.What really dissapoints me is that in a nation of 300 million people Obama and McCain are the best we could come up with? I find it hard to believe that there is not another Reagan, Ike, or even Nixon out there and we could have truly great leadership in America. Instead, we are stuck with mediocre to bad candidates that have the money and are willing to put up with the campaign trail to get into office. I have yet to hear any candidate other than Ron Paul talk anything concrete on the issues, and Ron Paul is a flake, in my opinion.
It would do us all well to also remember that warfare defies categorization throughout the ages. In the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries European warfare was all about position and few battles were fought at all most wars were consumed with maneuvering for advantage and extensive sieges. In the era of Napoleon war was mostly about the quest for the decisive battle, a quest that has continued. Contemporary warfare seems to be leaning in the direction of insurgency/counter-insurgency, this is mainly because of the hyperpower of the US and first world armies. What will war look like in 100 years. I would hesitate to look in the crystal ball, but I can almost assuredly guarantee that it will look nothing like the wars of today.
AAAH! Another incomprehensible string of strange sentiments and pronouncements with little substance. You would be taken more seriously if you tried harder to make sense when writing something.
Belated congrats from an occasionally geographically challenged individual. It seems like geographay as a subject is continually expanding.
From what I know of the history, this claim will go nowhere simply on the merits. There were some violations by the Templars and it was well within the Pope's power to dissolve the Order and seize its assets since the Order only existed through the Pope's grant. What he gave he could simply take away without any reason.
I too, will have to check this out. Bismarck is one of the central figures in the 19th Century unification of Germany and sits in the period of German history that interests me the most.
I think he is at a minimum, entertaining, even though it sometimes strains my brain to figure out what he is trying to say. I dont think banning him would be the way to go. All the regulars should just take him with a grain of salt.However, the reason I like this forum so much is that it stays topical and every thread doesn't just degenerate into insensate name-calling. This is one of the only civil forums I have found where real discussion takes place of either historical subjects and especially current events.
All,I have finally arrived in Germany and we are currently camped out at my in-laws while we look for a house to buy. I am rapidly discovering that money does not go near as far now as three years ago. It is looking as though a house on 1/4 acre is going to run about $200,000, about twice what I would have paid in Texas. That being said, I am only a few hours drive from all the battlefields that I am interested in so I look forward to lots of travel in the coming years. I should also be able to get back on the forum more regularly now that I have reestablished contact with the electronic world.Patrick
Reminds me of what they said about Marx and Engels. Communists read Marx, Capitalists understand Marx. (paraphrased)
Excellent quote! I had never heard that but it is so true. ;D
My wife and son dont like to watch war movies with me because I always beat them up on their accuracy. 300 is a particularly egregious example of a movie that could have been great instead being horrible through sheer weight of unrealities. I actually got up and left the theater during 300 because it was so stupid, I felt my intelligence was being insulted the whole time.
I know she used her lineage to help her entice Caesar. Her very legitimacy made a union between the two a plus for him and his aspirations of establishing a dynasty back at Rome.
Luckily, I havent had to do any of these yet. Since I only have 6 more course before I finish my MA, hopefully I can avoid it. It seems like a cheap way for the professor to get the students to do his work for him.
Britain did not need or desire to have complete control of the Chinese to get what they wanted, gunboat diplomacy and the threat of force was plenty for British purposes.
I only had a day to spend at Gettysburg so I concentrated on the Battlefield. Did get to the top of both Round Tops. One thing I hated was how crowded the battlefield was with tourists and how disrepectful the majority were of the ground they were walking. It was as though they didnt realize the import and sanctity of the ground they trod so blithely. This is something I did not experience at Shiloh last year and it was disheartening. I will say that having now seen the ground, I have much greater respect for the men who walked across that field in Pickett's Charge. that was a fool's errand if ever there was one. I took aout 300 pictures and I will post them somehwere and provide the link once I get set up in Germany, probably a few moths from now. Gettysburg was definitely worth the trip though, it gave me a completely new understanding of the battle that I could not get from books and movies.Ate lunch at a place on the Square that both sucked and cost an arm and a leg. I think $60 for 3 sandwiches and iced tea is a little outrageous.
