Is this a valid military tactic?
>>2476924
yes
There is no such thing as evil.
We are in agreement on this, right?
>>2476740
there are socially deviant behaviours that could be classified as evil (like miscgenation). So yes, in a sense, it does exist
>>2476759
Simply epic.
If you mean like some kind of metaphysical or religious force that embodies a total negation of all goodness then no there's no such thing, but if you mean events or behaviors that are really exceptionally cruel or cause suffering on some kind of extraordinary scale then yeah there is
>Spooks
>
>>2476696
Who you callin' spook, peckerwood?
How have the Yazidis able to exist for such a long time without adapting to become a high-IQ society like Jews? Why were they not killed off or converted centuries ago? Did they have to pay the infidel tax?
They are the descendants of the Chaldeans, a priest/sorcerer class of the Babylonians.
They still worship Satan to this day.
>>2476600
>How have the Yazidis able to exist for such a long time without adapting to become a high-IQ society like Jews?
They were never prohibited from farming or working.
>>2476600
Because despite what you might read from a Shariah handbook, Medieval Middle Eastern society didn't actually work like that. The majority of Islamic regimes in the region formed alliances with the aristocratic and mercantile nobility in order to maintain a functional bureaucracy, and actual AllahSnackbar types that took purging infidels and heretics seriously were pretty easily replaced if they weren't absolutely lucky enough to have overwhelming (or independent) military and financial backing.
It also helped that religious zealotry in the Middle East tended to be about some form of self-segregation as opposed to dominating sacred spaces like in Europe.
>ywn play a part in the Nanking Massacre
>ywn succumb to smallpox
>ywn get put into an internment camp
>ywn work night and day in a gulag only to be shot in the head regardless
redpill me on Petra.
Was it made by Greeks?
>>2476473
No. It was made by, admittedly fairly culturally Hellenised (as most people in the East were between Alexander and the early first millenium AD) Nabateans, i.e. Arabs.
>Al-Khazneh was originally built as a mausoleum and crypt at the beginning of the 1st century AD during the reign of Aretas IV Philopatris.[1] Its Arabic name Treasury derives from one legend that bandits or pirates hid their loot in a stone urn high on the second level. Significant damage from bullets can be seen on the urn. Local lore attributes this to Bedouins, who are said to have shot at the urn in the early 20th century, in hopes of breaking it open and spilling out the "treasure"—but the decorative urn is in fact solid sandstone
Fuck modern Arabs.
>>2476523
>why was the near east (the levant) so based? i heard that's where civilization first started
It's because that's where agriculture first became an institution, which led to a labour surplus, the hierarchisation of society and subsequently cities.
>It's okay when England does it!
>It's only bad when Germany does it!
Wow look to all these wastelands
>>2476472
>India
>wasteland
>>2476472
>wastelands
>>2476467
Law is a controlling set of strictures as to how a public official will rule in a controversy set before him or her.
>>2476467
Law is a social custom that is enforced by compulsion.
>>2476467
Moral law? Criminal law? Civil law? Maritime law? Laws of Land Warfare? Some reified form known as "Law"?
You're going to have to be more specific.
Tell me about Japan in WW2, and what they were trying to achieve.
Any suggestions of books would be nice too.
Arr rook arike.
>>2476388
"Japan" isn't something that can exactly be said to exist in WW2. Unlike most of the other major players in the war, the internal divisions within the Japanese government were great enough to preclude strategy in the classical sense. You can't really speak of "what was Japan trying to achieve" so much as "What was the Japanese army trying to achieve" and what the Japanese navy was trying to achieve, and what this, that, and the other competing interest groups were trying to achieve.
>>2476413
I remember reading something about their being a divide between those trying to expand southward, and those trying to expand westward. Is that what you refer to?
Please, help me identifying this piece, I've been looking at armorial bearings for hours and I can't find anything.
It is an object.
>>2476283
It has that WW2 German cross and the flower icon of medieval France.
What made him so dominant over other generals of his era?
Height
>>2476244
He wasn't
>>2476272
>Wellingshit
>great general
Roman infantry were mostly well armored with chainmail and sometimes segmentata, so why was chainmail/metal chest armor so rare in the medieval times?
It seems that the best a generic infantryman could get was a helmet and a gambeson/leather.
>>2476191
>It seems that the best a generic infantryman could get was a helmet and a gambeson/leather.
What are you basing this on?
>>2476216
Popular historical stereotypes
>>2476236
So basically nothing tangible?
Article 8 of the 1783 treaty of Paris,
>Great Britain and the United States are each to be given perpetual access to the Mississippi River;
Does the UK still have perpetual access to the Mississippi River?
If they do, why did Bush and Clinton both refer to the 1786 Moroccan-American treaty as "the longest unbroken treaty in our history"? And if not, what broke the Treaty of Paris?
>>2476144
I'm pretty sure that Britain broke the Treaty of Paris during the War of 1812.
>>2476148
>implying Americans didn't
>>2476148
did that actually break the treaty though? I can't find anything that backs this up
for example, the treaty of 1818 directly refers to the 1783 Treaty of Paris as if it was still in effect
what's a good book about The Lifestyle of Medieval Peasants?
Crabs & Scabs: A Guide to Peasant Health by Swol Krunk
>>2476118
>drumpf
>pepe
>filename is 'dailyreminder' so you probably spam this all the time
kys /pol/edditor
>>2476118
here op
ITT: the most tragic deaths in the past 50 years
RIP the greatest philosopher to ever live.
>>2476421
He would've done great things for this country.