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CharlesXII check out this super aspie book about WWII

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2017/10/sec...
provocative ruby church community account
  10/22/17
VDH's classical warfare scholarship is interesting but I've ...
Alcoholic toaster death wish
  10/22/17
"VDH's classical warfare scholarship is interesting&quo...
Dead Halford
  10/22/17
Actually was thinking of Western Way of War. Have not read A...
Alcoholic toaster death wish
  10/22/17
it's awful, it's basically a thinly veiled Iraq War apologia...
Dead Halford
  10/22/17
Man, now I almost want to read it just to see how the hell h...
Alcoholic toaster death wish
  10/22/17
Dude, this makes it obvious that you were not a college stud...
provocative ruby church community account
  10/22/17
I was in 8th grade when Bush got reelected, LOL.
Alcoholic toaster death wish
  10/22/17
as a college freshman I literally wrote an "Iraq = Pelo...
provocative ruby church community account
  10/22/17
It just seems like such a flawed analogy on so many levels. ...
Alcoholic toaster death wish
  10/22/17
that's a traditional bad analogy
Dead Halford
  10/22/17
CR. That said I'm increasingly a fan of the America = lat...
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  10/22/17
Cicero = Hillary
Dead Halford
  10/22/17
You ever see this? Some professors did a stylized summary of...
Alcoholic toaster death wish
  10/22/17
I actually stopped reading it a few chapters in; my brother ...
Dead Halford
  10/22/17
Believable. VDH isn't an amazing read at the best of times, ...
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Date: October 22nd, 2017 10:28 AM
Author: provocative ruby church community account

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2017/10/second-world-wars.html

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3771345&forum_id=2#34500922)



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Date: October 22nd, 2017 12:34 PM
Author: Alcoholic toaster death wish

VDH's classical warfare scholarship is interesting but I've never found his modern warfare books that engaging. That said a lot of those have some political angle so if this one doesn't maybe it's better.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3771345&forum_id=2#34501779)



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Date: October 22nd, 2017 12:39 PM
Author: Dead Halford

"VDH's classical warfare scholarship is interesting"

weird pro-A War Like No Other flame

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3771345&forum_id=2#34501807)



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Date: October 22nd, 2017 12:50 PM
Author: Alcoholic toaster death wish

Actually was thinking of Western Way of War. Have not read AWLNO yet though I may eventually.

I'm friends with a military historian who has strong disagreements with VDH's scholarship which is amusing at times.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3771345&forum_id=2#34501862)



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Date: October 22nd, 2017 4:22 PM
Author: Dead Halford

it's awful, it's basically a thinly veiled Iraq War apologia that makes less sense the more you know about the Peloponnesian War

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3771345&forum_id=2#34503529)



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Date: October 22nd, 2017 4:36 PM
Author: Alcoholic toaster death wish

Man, now I almost want to read it just to see how the hell he pulls that off, because Iraq and the 2nd Peloponnesian War are...not really similar at all, as far as I can tell. Does he just make a lot out of the lack of regular pitched battles? The book gets cited in a bibliography I have where it notes his observation the entire 20+ years of war only had a few hours of traditional hoplite combat.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3771345&forum_id=2#34503622)



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Date: October 22nd, 2017 4:38 PM
Author: provocative ruby church community account

Dude, this makes it obvious that you were not a college student during the first Bush term. EVERYONE was comparing Iraq to Peloponnesian War because they were both examples of IMPERIAL OVERSTRETCH.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3771345&forum_id=2#34503632)



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Date: October 22nd, 2017 4:38 PM
Author: Alcoholic toaster death wish

I was in 8th grade when Bush got reelected, LOL.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3771345&forum_id=2#34503637)



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Date: October 22nd, 2017 4:39 PM
Author: provocative ruby church community account

as a college freshman I literally wrote an "Iraq = Peloponnesian War" final paper and got an A on it in a Political Science class

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3771345&forum_id=2#34503646)



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Date: October 22nd, 2017 4:47 PM
Author: Alcoholic toaster death wish

It just seems like such a flawed analogy on so many levels. It's like when everybody tries to claim America is 5th-century Rome or something.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3771345&forum_id=2#34503711)



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Date: October 22nd, 2017 4:53 PM
Author: Dead Halford

that's a traditional bad analogy

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3771345&forum_id=2#34503768)



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Date: October 22nd, 2017 4:54 PM
Author: Alcoholic toaster death wish

CR.

That said I'm increasingly a fan of the America = late Republican Rome analogy.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3771345&forum_id=2#34503781)



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Date: October 22nd, 2017 5:00 PM
Author: Dead Halford

Cicero = Hillary

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3771345&forum_id=2#34503832)



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Date: October 22nd, 2017 5:03 PM
Author: Alcoholic toaster death wish

You ever see this? Some professors did a stylized summary of a Cicero speech to imagine how it may have sounded to a Roman in the forum. It's totally a 2015 Trump speech:

http://dcc.dickinson.edu/cicero-de-imperio/speech-summary

The amazing thing is this summary predates Trump's run.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3771345&forum_id=2#34503860)



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Date: October 22nd, 2017 4:38 PM
Author: Dead Halford

I actually stopped reading it a few chapters in; my brother says it didn't really get any better

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3771345&forum_id=2#34503640)



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Date: October 22nd, 2017 4:48 PM
Author: Alcoholic toaster death wish

Believable. VDH isn't an amazing read at the best of times, so when he's also shoving politics down your throat it can be really bad.

The Savior-Generals was an especially strange book; he tries to make the dubious claim the Union was on the brink of losing the Civil War until Sherman showed up and turned the tide in the Atlanta Campaign. That is...a very tenuous argument.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3771345&forum_id=2#34503728)



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Date: October 22nd, 2017 4:16 PM
Author: provocative ruby church community account



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3771345&forum_id=2#34503504)