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The Guns of August is breddy gud

Guns Germs and Steel

Herodotus

>>388364
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>>388363
depends on who you ask
the RCC will say yes

Only America and Canada are western.

>>388311
NATO has tried before to determine if you can win a war with purely air attacks, the conclusion is "of course not you fucking idiots, now Russia has an F-117 hull to go test it's anti-radar technology on"

The problem is no one actually wants to commit because it would be political suicide but doing nothing is also not going to do anything to help keep those that feel like there needs to be something to happen. It's a political not a military game.

>>388311
Eh... I'd argue they WERE very effective
The British bombings of the Ruhr in WW2 were massively effective, destroying tons of factories.
Bombing airfields is pretty OP too.

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>>388311
worked just fine against Libya

How about you post their names since not everyone recognizes their faces.

>>388295
Thomas Hobbes.
Main work: Leviathan

>>388278
Also:
>the State is an organism, the king is its mind, his decisions are its decisions, his spirit is its spirit

They were effectively an empire

>>388244
Which one? I think the Dutch one may have been even more important in its day.

no. knights templar or hansa league was.

>>388167
It's more liberal than Catholicism

though modern versions of Christianity are probably equal to Islam

>>388167
No.
Islam in general is neither more, nor less liberal than Christianity in general. You're mistaking reality with the naïve and sappy ideals of white guilt ridden leftist loonies with a pathological passive-aggressive antipathy towards their parent culture and never grew out of their rebellious teen phase as flower children of the 1960s.

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>>388185
>It's more liberal than Catholicism

Top fucking kek

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First for the most brutal, efficient and effective police force/intelligence group in history. RIP.

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>>388113
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v5QCGqDYGo

never trust a german

>>388113
Why were the French interested in getting Saarland?

>>387943
>why where there no
*why were all

>>387943

>Is made by God
>Works for God.
>Answers to God.


Actual Scripture> Milton's fanfiction.

>>387943
i don't get why satan rebeled in the first place.

>>387901
Herodotus.

Thucydides.

>>387901
>Rome
Tacitus - Annals
Suetonius - Caesars
Caesar - Civil War, Gallic War
Gibbon - Decline and Fall

>>387864

He would have been shut down in the early 30s.

Seriously, the only reason people didn't take him seriously when he started remilitarizing and occupying the Rhineland is because they associated him with the lovable tramp Chaplain.


He would have been a would-be revanchist who got slapped down.

We surely need a Htlr general...

looks much more handsome

>>387829
>Is it just an ironic muh heritage cosplay?
Isn't that all religion?

>>387829
>Hellenismos
As in the beginner's guide? Probably a bit weak, though flipping through they seem to know what they're on about.

That said, there are many people reconstructing the Greek systems using publications of academic collections of Sacred Law, what fragments we have of the Mystery Cult material, and Jake Stratton Kent's Greek Magical Papyrus. Large swaths of that material's covered in my library linked in the occultism thread.

>>387848
Huh, going through their recommended reading, in Alexander's Beginner's Guide, they mention Stephen Flowers but not JSK.

For those interested in Greek praxis I'd recommend his Geosophia and comments on the rite of the Headless One.

>>387806
Probably before the arrival of Islam?

Wasn't Syria a thriving center of Christianity (both Arab and Byzantine)?

>>387806
Damascus was the capital of the Umayyad Caliphate.

If we're accepting pre-arab times, Antioch, while now in modern Turkey, was historically the traditional capital of Syria. It was the capital of the Seleucid Empire and probably the second city in the Eastern Roman Empire.

Syria was from very early on a major center of civilization. In fact the Arameans where hugely influential to the developement of societies.
The region was also very prosperous
Really the region only recently fell into turmoil after decolonization.
As it turns out drawing arbitrary boarders that disregard the local populations can make an uneasy political climate. Then when the only stable government strong enough to hold the country together gets torn apart by the Arab spring, everything fell apart

>>387748

By having a Weimar republic whose police were actually worth a rusty damn.

If it weren't for all the factional violence, NASDAP would never have stood a chance for any sort of power.

I don't think the German people were ever going to accept they were defeated on the battlefield in WWI, it psychologically broke them. It had to be someone else's fault

>>387748

Simple,

By keeping Hitler in Landsberg prison for the 5 years he was sentenced after the beer hall putsch

>>387628
The IJN, unlike the IJA had more than two brain-cells to rub together

>>387628
This occurred at the height of the Japanese empire and at the lowest point in the British empire. Japan had conquered most of east Asia by thing point including the Philippines. Britain on the other hand was effectively surrounded and without and immediate ally. There was very little British victories at this point in the war which they had fought generally alone up until now. British asia was blocked off from the mainland and isolated. This is not very good for moral

>>387628
British command in Malaya was rotten to the core. if they knew what they were in for things might have panned out differently, that faggot Heenan should have seen the way things might have blown being in Japan so late, but the stupid cunt spied for the Japs seemingly for kicks.

>egypt
>persia
>india

reading an unaccurate source has its benefits too, if the sources from an era is scarce

>>387571
No. Definitely don't start with the Greeks. Start with modern, up to date sources. Literally everything else is garbage except as a primary source.

>>387571
No. Just start with some general history then branch off into whatever interests you