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NATO

The United Nations

>>3132002
NATO is very much a military alliance.

Interestingly there were Rockefellers in both parties. Jay Rockefeller was a Democratic Senator from West Virginia until his retirement in 2014.

>>3131910
That is indeed interesting and it really makes me wonder.

>>3131823
I hate commies but respect where respect is due, that's one hell of a move.
A). boosts morale among your own
B). strikes a blow against any percieved high ground your enemy feels they have as you perform art while they make war

Can't say I'm crazy about the piece of music though to be honest, too modern.

>>3131823
>claiming the moral high ground in the face of the enemy

white people

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>>3131823
In the Battle of Warsaw in the Polish-Soviet war Soviet communications were borked because the Poles were spamming readings of the Bible in Latin on all the frequencies used by the Red Army.

Must have been pretty spooky.

>>3131807
Yes

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>>3131831
Wrong.

>>3131994
genetic data is not blood memory. That is not how genes work.

No.

>>3131793
There's the fact it has nothing to do with the Indonesians in terms of ethnicity, culture or religion, and PNG was under Australia at the time. Indonesia wanted all the islands in the archipelago and fought the British in Borneo for that autism

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>>3131793

No. Its rightful Japanese clay.

>>3131815
Indonesia itself is a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, religiously diverse country. Sure the Papuans look different but that alone shouldn't be enough to grant them special status.

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>>3131726
>got me into thinking about the use of mercenary groups in national armys.
During the heyday of mercenaries, there was no such thing as nation-states.
>I can't ignore the feel that use of privaty military by nation-states is in rising again.
Private Military Contractors =/= Mercenaries.

They're bodyguards at best.

Unlike in the age of swords and spears n shit, it is really hard for private entities to be at the same level as modern conventional armies. At the most all they can ever run are infantry forces.

>>3131744
I supposed you are right anon, my brain just melted to make anacronistic comparison as such.
The PMC have more of a support role I guess, because is easier to pay someone to guard a place while you focus your soldiers on the important stuff.
>so the pmc's are like modern-day milicia?
Either way, I wonder if the use of PMC's is getting sounds so vocal because there are people who make a fuzz about or because it truly is growing and stuff.
From the things I saw, PMC's are said to being used in order to avoid dealing with legal issues that stardard soldiers would face.
Tho I can't say for sure if the PMC's are so bad as some people portray it to be.

>>3131726
>To make it clear, no, I don't think the use of mercenary companies is bad.
But they were bad. Look at the thirty years war. Unpaid mercenaries looted villages, towns, and farms everywhere. They slaughtered the common people. There's no loyalty except to money.

Maybe something that lead to empiricism, the scientific revolution, and then the industrial revolution, but if these things were unique to western civilization 2-300 years ago, they sure aren't unique now, which is why we are seeing the rise of the rest and the beginnings of a multipolar world

Not sure how he's viewed here but niall ferguson discusses why in his documentary Civilisation.

The University

their were "learning institutions" in other cultures, but the University as we know of it today has its origins in Medieval Europe, particularly Italy

this played a role in finding many people with great potential and talent then ever before

>>3131677
it's a K for Cadet

Tankist cadet uniform

>>3132081
tankist?

>t. anarchist

>>3131656
I think he's trying to diminish Chinese accomplishments.

Which the Chinese and Chinkaboos really do like blowing out of proportion. Sure Sun Tzu was Chinese, but do they ever listen to him? Absolutely the fuck not.

>>3131661
Typical Westerner thinking the Sun-zi is the only thing in the Chinese military tradition.

http://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2013/10/not-everyone-likes-sunzi.html

>>3131531
Majik.

The witch doctors of the black Romans used ancient Ebonoid technique passed down through millions of years as the Ebonoid galactic empire's black gods traversed the galaxy planet to planet dominating reality to their will.
White "people" merely moved in after the black gods made it safe for them to emerge from their caves.

>>3131531
>Some scientists and historians believe
Everything caused the fall of Rome.

They had friendly relations, archeologysts have found mayan burials in Teotihuacan.

>>3131522

I don't know much about Teotihuacan, but I did attend a lecture by Linda Manzanilla about a year ago. She's a well known (if not the foremost) expert on Teotihuacan. Oddly enough, that exact question came up during the QA session and she basically said that it doesn't seem likely that such a scenario was possible. Teotihuacan was a massive centralized city to be sure, but the organization of the military appears to have been somewhat decentralized and probably defensive in nature. She described their millitary as community-based militias, rather than a formal army. The Teotihuacanos probably couldn't have supported long distance military campaigns, especially not into the Yucatan.

There is definitely a lot of Teotihuacano influence in the Maya region, but that could have been the result of extensive trade or political influence. Thats about as much as I know though, sorry.

>>3131522
bump

>>3131451
then it would still collapse and afghanistan would be a post communist state probably undergoing civil war between Islamist rebels and the government.

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>>3131451

>Bin Laden put up against the wall and shot by Soviet SMERSH
>9/11 never happens
>2003 Invasion of Iraq never happens
>Syrian civil war never happens
>Isis never happens
>Europe remains white

Thanks Ronald Regan!

>>3131824
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>>3131397
This is why we put those niggers in camps

But I was told there was zero cases of Japanese-Americans supporting the Japs. xD

Side Note: Kinda surprised the natives held such a loyalty to the U.S. in the 40s

>>3131419
It was more like they liked the Japanese less than the Americans

>>3131386
How many wars did his generalship win again?

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>>3131442
wew krauts BTFO again

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ignore polfaggot threads

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>>3131366
Because it makes it more difficult for mere circumstance to exterminate your race, and therefore ensures your survival as a whole at greater rates. Which is generally a good thing if you want your race to survive indefinitely.

Makes people's lives easier, makes people happier.

>>3131366
Improves standard of living