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War is having an Identity Crisis
2018-07-31
[SmallWarsJournal]
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Posted by:3dc

#5  CurrentYearians are always shocked to learn that their experiences and assumptions are not the only factor in what happens during Current Year.
Posted by: charger   2018-07-31 18:49  

#4  Analysts have *blinders*, too. I enjoy reading the military histories of Theodore Ayrault Dodge, particularly his Series on Napoleon.

Because Dodge died in 1909 and he does NOT see military history solely through the prisms of the Industrial Age Period and World Wars I & II. Many modern analysts torture events to fit them into modern contexts when they simply do not fit those preconceptions.
Posted by: magpie   2018-07-31 17:35  

#3  with anal-ysts like Michael Yawn and Rave Thedumjar babbling on about what you are, you'd be having an identity crisis too.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2018-07-31 13:49  

#2  War was a "far away spectator sport" for most of human history. Unless the marching armies literally walked over your lands, devouring everything edible in the process!, battles were something that happened "somewhere over there" and only affected the peasantry indirectly (tax increases) if at all...
If anything, war is becoming more like it was before the Industrial Age ushered in mass impersonal slaughter -- local and chaotic.
Posted by: magpie   2018-07-31 12:17  

#1  Paradigm shift in the way war is waged?
Posted by: JohnQC   2018-07-31 08:18  

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