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I would say no. Technology trumps everything and wealthy industrialized nations have the technology.
Yep, technology sure trumped the heck out of those insurgents in Iraq didn't it?
Those figures seem to be roughly accurate. I have a read a more compact 25-35 million estimate for the Taiping Rebellion. And yes, Easterners do in general value human life less than do Westerners. I have some guesses as to why that is. The main reason is they have always had a far denser population than the west. I am surprised there are no African wars on the list. I think the wars in central Africa post-colonialism have had a pretty high death toll, the problem there is nobody really knows what the African population was to begin with. I believe the Algerian War of Independence cost over a million lives as well. The Rwandan Civil War of '94 should be on the list at a minimum. The media and bleeding hearts like to call it a genocide but it was in reality a short, extremely violent Civil War.
The campaign I have studied the most is the NY/NJ campaign of 1776-1777. The stroke and counter-stroke involved there are pretty interesting. Even though Washington's defense of NYC is pitiable at best.
I meant that there are some areas of psychology which are science, and there are areas that are less so. My wife deals with the science side which involves a lot of studies, data, data crunching, etc. The side which is not science (pseudoscience?) seems to be the side which is not grounded in reputable studies and data. I think it's the same way with any field, even history. If you read a book and it's sparse on footnotes and primary document citations, or it makes conclusions which are not rooted in primary documents, you may be looking at a pseudo-history text.
I can agree with that.
The revolutionary campaigns are far from my strong suit. I have a basic familiarity with the Trenton/New York campaign and the War in the South but nothing more.It wasn't actually much of a war, if truth be told.
So it's not a real degree any more than psychology is a real science? At least your wife went into an area of pseudoscience that has empirical data. You have to respect her for that at a minimum.I am not trying to be a jerk here or insult your wife. Who I am sure is a wonderful woman, she must be to put with a historian. ;D
Not giving up. I still plan on trying to write, and make a living at it. I just don't really have a burning desire to work in academia anymore. I already have my MA and when I eventually get back to the states (I will be coming back), I plan on getting a PhD, but only for my own selfish reasons, not because I want to work in Academia.Back on topic:Other than a Comp. Exam and an oral Defense what else do you need to complete your PhD? I would guess a dissertation but I cannot think of anything else. What is the process and is it different for every school?
No, the closest I ever came to that was going to the Army's Master Fitness Trainer course. That was back in '99 at the end of Drill Sergeant School and before they cancelled the program though.
Well, when I think Liberal the word despite comes to mind for some reason. I don't for the life of me know why.
Well if an American becomes Pope, you know the end is near.
Why? Is that a sign of the End Times I have never heard before?
I still think it will be a Hispanic or African but I suppose it is possible that an American could get it. I am fairly convinced at this point that the next Pope will not be European. I think the European Cardinals understand that Catholicism is dying in Europe because of a combination of post-modern secularism and the influx of Islam.
Here is an interesting article speculating on the chances of an American being elected to the Papacy. My first reaction was to laugh but then I thought again and maybe there is something to it. Americans are nothing if not dynamic and it the papacy needs somebody who is both charismatic and dynamic at this point in time.
