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Why enter First Balkan War when you can enter your mom's bedroom?

>>3311046
>I know nothing about the subject so I'm gonna shitpost the post

kys

>>3311046
Valid argument

They (both the Imperial Army and Navy)were generally too rigid in doctrine to adapt to changing circumstances (Nagano's critical flaw at Midway) and the harsh interservice rivalry and disconnected political goals of both led to a crippling lack of efficiency at times and arguably contributed to their ultimate defeat (IJA wanted to focus on killing China first, IJN wanted to quickly strike European colonial holdings and later the US), leading to the eventual decision of Japan to fight everyone at once as a compromise.

Bottom of the barrel army. Embarrassingly awful. Their navy is around equal or superior to Britain's. I think Britain's is bigger by tonnage but Japan has them beat on carriers and submarines. They're very distantly behind the United States at any rate.

>>3311026
Army - basically shit tier compared to any first rate European power but with couple interesting weapons in its arsenal.
Navy:
Carrier: 2nd best carrier force in the world at start of the war with access to good pilots and decent if overly specialized planes. Hindered by Japan's inflexible doctrine when it came to assigning squadrons to carriers and inability to replace pilot losses in any reasonably amount of time.
Battleships: Japanese only had 4 decent battleships in their arsenal (Nagatos and Yamatos) with rest of them being pretty shit.
Battlecruisers: 4 decent modernized Kongo-class battlecruisers, all of which were about comparable to the rebuild HMS Renown (with Renown having better AA-suite but weaker broadside) but noticeably inferior to German Scharnhorsts, French battlecruiser/small battleship Dunkerques, and American Alaska-class large cruisers.
Heavy cruisers: decent if lightly armored, Japanese most likely would had been better off dropping their desired max speed for CAs from 35 knots to 33 or 32 knots and using the extra tons freed to armoring their CAs properly.
Light cruisers: most of them were old and obsolete ships from 1910s and early 1920s that were of questionable value during WW2.
Destroyers: overall pretty good.
Submarines: good subs, horrible doctrine that made them borderline useless.
Escort vessels: Mostly ignored in favor of muh decisive battle and thus were inferior to their western counterparts.
Overall: 3rd strongest navy in the world at the start of the war

Other stuff:
Naval AA: shit tier when compared to yanks and brits
Service infighting and autism about not using same equipment: world-class

>>3311016
That will be $9.99 plus *fedora tips*

>>3311016

Top kek lad

>>3310919
what were they going to do? they drove themselves into an early inflation grave with the excess silver, and protestantism was blowing up everywhere northern europe. there's nothing they could do... fight and massacre the dutch revolting population for no resource or strategic advantage?

be real, holland wasn't worth it, everyone hated them and nothing was valuable enough to fight for

>>3310928
>be real, holland wasn't worth it,
For Castille, yes, it wasn't. But it was a matter of prestige and right for the Habsburgs. It probably was pointless for Spain, but I just want to know why the best armies in the world failed to conquer the Netherlands.

>>3310943
There were only 3,000 spanish soldiers at its peak and having France and England cockblocking and supporting the rebels didn't make it easy. The guy in charge of Flandes had to literally beg to sruvive because Spain didn't have any money to send to him. Also, for Spain the eternal turk was always the real menace,

>>3310872
Hitler's Germany and the Fascist manifesto are to the left economically than the modern day right. Hence, relatively speaking, they aren't wrong

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>>3310872
Strasser should have won.

>>3310872
The government was heavily involved in economic life. Granted it wasn't "le true marxist socialism", it was some sort of what we would call today "democratic socialism" or "nordic model"

>>3310785
Christians made up the middle class/ "white collar" part of the empire since they had much higher literacy rates. Constantinople itself retained a huge Greek Christian population right up until world war one. Because of the ethnic guild system, where certain races were responsible for certain professions ,ethnic and religious groups were also largely economic class groups. Armenians took over money lending in the 17th century from the Jews for example, afterwards the Jews in the empire largely fell out of the system and became associated with crushing poverty.

The official policy of the Ottoman government was to play off the various ethnic groups of the empire against each other. If one got too powerful another could take its place as had happened to the Jewish bankers. Cultural mixing was largely forbidden, and race riots between jealous groups were pretty regular. It was multicultural in the sense that there were multiple cultures tolerated by the ruling class, but nothing like the multiculturalism of today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ottoman_Grand_Viziers

>>3310813
>muh race

Amerimutt pls

>>3310778
National Syndicalism + Authoritarianism + New Man theory

>>3310778
Is the right one even from fascistic propaganda? Looks like capitalist ad for men´s parfume.

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>>3310778
>Are you able to correctly define Fascism, /his/?

Scholar of Fascism, here. Fascism is essentially an economic and political doctrine which advocates for the extreme power of a ruling State to absorb every political, social, personal, and spiritual element of the nation within itself.

Anything else is happenstance and the product of the particular nation that it manifested within.

well, it all started in the 16th century...

they sperged out over fort sumter

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>>3310662

Because it wasn't racial specific chattel slavery that tried to morally and rationally justify the practice with pseudosciencific racial hierarchies

>>3310578
We aren't taught about the Taiping Rebellion either.

Or the Thirty Years' War.

Or about the Byzantine Empire.

We aren't taught about a lot of different things including the Arab slave trade, because just like in every other country, in America we're taught about history which is relevant to our country.

>>3310578

How much history does the average high school curriculum even cover?

Just become a Christian. No need for denomination.

Leadership in catholicism is extremely shady

>>3310503
only if you want to stop thinking and let the clergy think for you

>>3310503
yes the real god of the entire universe out of the infinite possibilities of spiritual revelations picked the institution of the catholic church to be his one and only true and genuine expression to humanity

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It's very simple. Arabs have had a lot of pride since the 7th century, as tough warriors. The Jews ruined that. The Jews humiliated them. They will never be forgiven.

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>>3310483
http://www.martyrmade.com/fear-loathing-in-the-new-jerusalem/

http://a.co/dHoBc5T

>>3310496
That podcast is good but it has a very obvious pro-Arab bias.

>>3310446
More effective weapons came along. Thermobaric weapons and white phosphorus made them obsolete.

>>3310446
high risk, limited range, pretty inefficient and inaccurate, more difficult to refuel/reload, high chance of friendly fire, dangerous for the operator (e.g. fuel tanks exploding after getting hit)

>>3310480
This, except fuel tanks exploding was less of a danger than you'd think. The real issue was everyone on the opposing side noticing your flamethrower and try to kill you first. Flamethrower operators were absolutely despised, for obvious reasons, and had a very low life expectancy in combat.

Imagine if someone died, the body was cryogenically frozen and they supposedly reincarnated into a fetus, then after they were birthed and grew up the frozen cadaver was revived, what would happen?

I do not believe in the immortality of the soul as we are already within God.

>>3310425
>Comparing Putin to Caesar.
He's more like Sulla.

>>3310382
I know a decent amount about Theravada but fuck all about Vajrayana.

From what I can tell though it really has little to do with the actual teachings or project of the historical Buddha. Instead it's just some bizarre mixture of various folk religions and practices with a vaguely "buddhist" aesthetic.

I've read a few books on Tibetan Buddhism. I personally dislike how much of it is a hybrid between traditional Tibetan religion (Bön) and Buddhism. One of the things I most appreciate about mainline Buddhism is that it's actually separable from spirituality, but in Tibetan buddhism it's so intertwined it's unavoidable.

Plus the whole thing reeks of "multiple lifetimes to reach enlightenment? Fuck that, we can get more followers if we say you can do it in one!"

>>3310468
>multiple lifetimes to reach enlightenment
That's some mahayana bs where they turned enlightenment from a concrete possibility to some unachievable ideal.