How did the military's of the 20th Century handle rationalisation?
What I mean is, even today, people from the South of England don't get along with people from the North, much as for example people from New York wouldn't have much in common with someone from Kentucky. 70+ years ago, in a less globalised world, these regional divides would have been even more pronounced than today, how did the military get around this?
Did they separate people from different parts of the country into different groups? What about in highly specialised roles (eg. pilots, or tank crews) where they couldn't afford to pick and choose and had to apply whatever people were available?
>>2285293
>military's
militaries
> people from the South of England don't get along with people from the North
That's due to the fact that England is a meme country invented by Vikings and Normans.
Northhumbria was the launching point for every raid on the south by the Vikings, the Vikings had their kingdom there.
The Normans ethnically cleansed the region to prevent the Vikings from using it as a source of rebellion. See The Great Harrowing of the North
It has always been at war with the south.
>>2285293
Not too difficult to drum up "us vs them" sentiment when fighting wars against other nation states. Regional differences aside, they'd still have considerably more in common with their own countrymen than with the enemy.
In the US you'd go train on regional bases from which units would be formed. Mostly National Guard bases that had been state militias up until ~1915. Naturally, this meant there was a regional commonality in these units. There are many accounts of small towns losing wildly disproportionate numbers of its young men as a result.
By Vietnam it was a lot less likely. You'd still probably train with them but the replacement doctrine of the time meant soldiers were assigned piecemeal to units that needed men.
>>2285293
the guy next to you is responsible for watching your back so you have no choice but to befriend him
t. /k/
Was there ever a greater adventurer than Hernán Cortés?
>be a wealthy man on a developed island and travel already well-worn trade routes to major urban areas as a part of a major military campaign
>adventurer
Fuck off, amigo, real adventurers coming through
>>2285438
>Kit Karson
Kek what a pleb
>>2285291
Vasco de gama
Is labor virtuous?
It seems that most people strive to labor less. We automate our labors for more leisure.
If labor is virtuous, the best way to increase our virtue would be to tear down industrial processes and increase our work as much as possible for a more virtuous society. But no one, not even those who love laboring, have considered doing that.
If labor is not virtuous, why do we pretend it is? Why not just say that labor is an unfortunate necessity to live in society, and that ideally we should strive for a society without the need to labor?
Because we have to at least make pretend it is dumb dumb, how do you think society would look of we didn't at least keep up the appearances of glorifying labor?
Fully functional ditch digger bots won't pop into existence just because we stop glorifying labor.
>>2285285
Making a living and providing is virtuous, it's usually the easiest through labor.
Also, Working* > www.working
>>2285298
I agree with your first statement but I'm gonna have to disagree with you on that second one.
Who is his closest Western counterpart?
>>2285237
William I
>>2285237
William Shakespeare
William Turner
Why was Chile so op in the Spanish American war?
Because the Esmeralda could have sunk the American navy and single-handedly raised the entire United States without taking a scratch.
The USA even admitted it.
This thread is made in the name of Allah, the most gracious, the most merciful.
>>2285240
HSHSHA THAT WAS THE PANAMA CRISIS YOUF CUKING NIGGER THERE ARE A HOLE FOUR YEARS BETWEEN THEM HAHAHS ARE UOU SOME KIND OF FUCKING RETARD SHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
What is the single worst state in history that a country's experienced?
Pic related as something in the top 5.
Eastern Front of WWII
The coming global chimpouts
Soon.jpg
Does the 30 years war count
What does /his/ think of this picture?
Difficult to read.
>>2285069
autism
Why all these societies aren't in war?
What's the worst thing Stalin has ever done that didn't involve physical danger towards other living creatures?
Nothing
>>2285019
Breathed
>>2285019
He married a 13 year old
He bullied Trotsky and Lenin's wife
Is "Indo-European" the worst meme ever?
>invented by racist colonists in India
>germans think they're "aryan" and go full nazi and genocidal
>linguistic groups are racist
Quality /his/ thread
>>2284992
lol. unfortunately it's only a matter of time before this is a pc dogma
>>2284992
Indo-Europeans did indeed exist. They were however a bunch of unsanitary horse fuckers, who managed to set back hygiene by several millenia.
They even managed to turn the relatively hygienic Indus valley civilization inhabitants (who were obsessed with bathing and toilets) into the Pooinloos we know today. It was only recently that people in major European cities used to defecate (or empty latrines) on the streets along with animals and rats.
>ANON HELP IM HAVING AN EMERGENCY
What is it Charlie?
>I NEED HELP WHO ME MAKE NEW KING AFTER ME DIE
>I GIVE YOU DUCHY IF YOU ARE HELP ME
Who do you tell him to make King and avoid the War of the Spanish Succession?
>>2284921
>implying he could form sentences
>>2284921
Just fuck his wife phåm.
>>2284931
> implying inbreeding doesn't enforce positive as well as negative traits
Post objectively good leaders ITT
>>2284894
His one job as leader:
>have an heir
Wow what a good leader lmao
I wonder who slammed their head against a keyboard to write this post...
Pedro II had a hard life
Habsburg thread
Awesome jaw. Great size. Looks thick. Solid. Tight. Keep us all posted on your continued progress with any new progress portraits or family trees. Show us what you got man. Wanna see how freakin' huge, solid, thick and tight your jaw can get. Thanks for the motivation.
>>2284886
"why?"
Charles V was the only good Habsburg.
>Got shit done and never even had a palace, he just continually travelled to solve problems in his territories
>Stopped the ottomans, dealt with Protestant Catholic War in the HRE, and the Valois
>Actually fucking resigned once he dealt with everything and split his kingdom in two because he knew it was too large
Philosophy is redundant and outdated thanks to the scientific method, baseless assertions should have no place in society.
>>>/reddit/
>>2284864
>tfw to smart?
>>2284896
*too
was this shit real?
funny roman strategies thread
>can't identify anything on mini.jpg
>oh wait, there!
>fucking EGYPTIANS
>>2284829
they phased those out in favor of Harpaxes pretty quickly because the sheer weight of the bridge made them really easy to sink in stormy waters.
still, nothing more Roman than coming up with a way to simply stab the enemy when he was once unstab-able
debatable whether this actually existed
Isn't the final form of any anarchist society feudalism?
Why are anarchists always dainty drug addled numales?
Is anarchism nothing more than "my parents kicked me out of the house for smoking weed" the ideology?
>>2284818
Read a fucking book
>>2284818
I think Tolstoy's anarchism is ok.