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That's like asking if anyone has a recommended reading list for science. It's such a broad question.

What period of military history are you most interested in? What type of strategy? Not every strategy will be equally valuable throughout time. Do you want abstract strategy concerning the general politics and effects of war? Then "On War" by Clausewitz is probably a good bet. Do you want more specific strategy concerning logistics for modern warfare? You're better off with some boring, dry textbook published by West Point.

Narrow it down before anyone can help, otherwise you're just going to get generic meme answers like "The Art of War" and "On War."

>>2717079
can you give me a source for the image

>>2717155
Not him but can you recommend books on warfare during the early 16th century in China, Korea, and Southeast Asia?

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>>2716508
(((Western Powers)))

>>2716508
Both.

>>2716508
nearly every problem in the middle east traces back to how the Entente Forces drew the map after dismantling the ottoman empire.

>>2716470
>Was it just a result of circumstance and weak neighbors?
Yes.
In the Balkans, fear of rule by Catholics and dislike of their feudal oppression made it easier for the Ottoman Turks to conquer

>>2716470
you know, you could just tipe that into the browser and find a ton of material that is going to answer your question far better than /his/ ever could. But instead you post it here, where you know there is a lot of hate for the ottomans. It makes me think you dont want your questions answered, you just want us to shitpost

Jannies were extremely good soldiers because they were literally trained since childhood. Their whole life was a military.

They were forbidden to marry and do anything else except the army stuff. That's why they ocassionally staged rebellions, which were usually very short but also very bloody. By the XVIII century they slowly sank into corruption and anarchy, which kinda fits with the Ottoman downfall as a whole.

The availability of body armor increased your chances of survival without a shield. While plate armor was definitely good enough to forego shields, the proliferation of armor in general was a factor.

On top of this you had increasingly professional infantry deploying heavier and more elaborate weapons. These troops were also more mobile so they would be able to move away from showers of projectiles more quickly, or they were more experienced with building defenses and denying the enemy the chance to fire on them effectively in the first place.

>>2716450
Solid steel protection for the arms plus gunpowder make them largely redundant.

Gunpowder changed everything.

>Europeans are the sea people

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Decent man, in politics for the right reasons; however he was totally clueless and allowed his movement to be co-opted by anti-semites and reactionary conservatives.

>>2716384
>loved his country
>wanted to make it more than just perfidious albion
>backstabbed by decrepit internationalists

>>2716384
He wanted peace with Germany, which would've ended the war in less than a year.

scaphism

>>2716380

This.

>>2716375
Biblical "burning" was pretty horrific.
>Tie to post
>Force jaws open
>Pour molten metal down their throat until dead.

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>>2716091
here's a good one

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WHEN YOU SAY LIFE TAKES TURNS
LIKE FIERY SHADOWS

>>2716044
That one time where a German fighter escorted an American bomber back to friendly space after it was damaged.

>>2716139

But the bombers were killing women and children on a mass scale. Executing bomber crews should not be a war crime IMO.

Some Gauls did it.

>>2715924
It is a well known fact that Germans, throughout their history, have consumed the flesh of all their neighbors, from the Italians to the Poles. Some even say that they would abduct non-German children and use their blood in creating special bratwursts.

>this is my body
>This is my blood

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>>2715893
Tactician, almost undoubtedly.

Strategist? Not during the Italian campaign.

>>2715904
None of his victories in Italy had the massive amounts of casualties like Hannibal's victories did

>>2715928
Casualties don't always win wars. Look at World War 2 if you want an extreme example of that.

This is true when fighting Romans especially. They had a insane pool of manpower to draw from, and were almost totally unphased by losses.

Either way you slice it, they both lost.

It's slightly less intuitive but still functional, at least for the sorts of mathematics they were doing.

How is that retarded? It's pretty easy to learn.

>>2715579
It's easy to learn to count with but shit for arithmetic.

Actually, Caesar was the "progressive" of the two (he adhered to the 'popular' party), while Pompey was the more conservative politician.

>>2715485
When you think about it, Caesar was the anti-establishment populist guy basically out for himself. He's way more Trump than Hillary, the government shill par excellence.
That said, Pompey was basically a daddy's boy who rekt the established aristocracy but was completely inconsequential once he took power. He then sold out to said aristocrat when the actual talented mold breaker came along.
Drumpft is already pretty close to a Pompey clone. We'll see if the comparison holds in the future.

>>2715629
If anything he's Crassus, an opportunistic, rich asshole who liked to play as a general without really knowing what he was doing

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bump

>be Soviet woman
>despite Communist LARPing about equality, society is even more sexually oppressive than the Capitalist West
>volunteer to defend Motherland from Nazis
>get turned away at first
>later accepted into service
>be stuck performance rearguard duty 90% of the time
>ranks are constantly thinned out due to illness pregnancies, STDs, starvation etc.
>poor performance in combat is blamed on female inferiority by officers
>get raped by horny Comrades
>get captured by Germans
>definitely get raped and possibly killed

Why can't Russian women ever catch a break?

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>>2715188

>why can't RUSSIANS catch a break

Seriously, their entire history is "but then it got worse"

Anyway, by the time he got back from his diplomatic mission in France, Benjamin Franklin had contracted every single sexually transmitted disease known to medical science at the time. Dude liked to fuck.

>>2715255

Sounds hot

Need a sauce

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Also a contrast between how Ottomans governed their and the Arabs did would be nice.

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>>2714975
What is Jerusalem worth?

>>2716065
Nothing... Syke get fucked idiot, it's literally a pilgrimage sight of our prophet.

>>2714169
Because he defeated Communists.

>>2714178
>defeated
Yeah, we never heared from them again.
So if Hitler's campain agains Stalin was a success he'd be a good guy?

Piłsudski was much more nuanced. He was the chief of state from 1918 to 1922 then he retired. But seeing the decay of the young Polish democracy in 1926 he decided to step in before our neighbors do it. He told his wife he's going to be back for dinner because he had no idea what's he going to do. In the end he deposed the president but he didn't replace him. But he was the most powerful person in the country.

The elections were normal he was actually pretty popular. This is why it wasn't a dictatorship more like a rather authoritarian democracy because a lot of his political enemies were thrown in jail, some of them died. He was a mixed bag because on one hand he had a great political vision but he failed in other ways for examply the modernization of the military. But if he was alive there would be no WWII at least not in 1939. His successors were all idiots though. So basically the cult of Piłsudski is very dangerous. He was certainly a great man but also overrated it's a result of that cult built around him in the 30s. There were other even greater people.