What military tradition used to be the best ? The French one at it's peak or the Prussian/German one at it's peak ? Or something else ?
Current USA
Definitely French.
>>3193327
>tfw you'll never be a French officer with a shiny white uniform fighting Pour le Roi against european coalitions, like why even live
Is he history's greatest bastard?
>inb4 Jesus of Nazareth
>>3193141
Jesus of Nazareth
William desu
>>3193141
Fuck off, you betrayed the King, you betrayed Catholicism, you got what you deserved.
Is all this stolen Lebanese land?
>>3193128
Might makes right
Vae victis
Choke on it
>>3193128
>american died for that
How come you don't see people back in the day with this kind of facial structure? What happened?
>>3193119
mongrelititis
Lack of physical activity.
>>3193119
Rampant obesity.
My last name is 王 does this mean my family were kaingz?
>>3193085
Either that, or tie fighters.
Inquisition witch hunters
>>3193085
we wuz wangz
Anyone experimented with ancient recipes before?
I'm using the recipe from Apicius. This seems like a Roman take on some sort of Parthian dish which was served at fancy dinners.
I have my homemade liquamen and date paste ready. The liquamen is made from reduced grape juice (which I squeezed myself) and Asian fermented fish sauce.
The recipe I found is on a site that filters think is spam. Just type pass the Garum into search and you'll be able to find it if interested.
Toasting caraway seeds, a little fennel, a tiny bit of cumin. Using celery salt because that stuff is made of lovage seed which I could t find pure.
I also had to search for asafoetida, the closest approximation to 'silphium' which the romans farmed to extinction in Libya. The shit reeks of sulphur and like bad vegetable ramen flavouring.
realised I'm a retard who didn't post the recipe. Just bunged it in the oven and waiting to taste it. Will give in depth review of taste in 45 mins to an hour provided mods haven't moved this to cooking or banned me.
4-5 Chicken Thighs
1/2 Leek
180 ml Red Wine
2 tbsp Fish Sauce (Liquamen)
1 tsp Asafoetida
1/2 tsp Ground Lovage Seed
Either 2 tsp Caraway Seeds or 1 tsp Cumin Seeds & 1 tsp Fennel Seeds
>>3193010
nice, I cooked some recipes of Apicius' a couple years, one dish I believe was chicken and apricots with garum
garum made a lot of things fucking delicious
>GAIUS
*waves arms*
>JULIUS
*waves arms*
>CAESAR
Lmao wtf was that?
>>3192987
a TV show
LET IT BE KNOWN
THIS MONTH'S CELEBRATIONS BROUGHT TO YOU BY HIROSHIMA NAGASAKI, THE SHITPOSTERS GUILD, AND THE HOLY ORDER OF THE SWORN VIRGIN JANITORS
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*hand gestures*
PERMITTED
>>3193017
haha it says cvm
Why didn't the Nuremberg trials touch the USSR ?
Also later why didn't the International Court take up the War crimes by Allied nations as a Suo motu action?
>>3192853
Because the whole point was to kick the losers while they were down, under the auspices of "justice".
>>3192853
If the soviets (winners) were judged, then the allies should to, there were crimes in all sides of the war
>>3192853
Maybe beause the trials were, by their definition, against Nazis?
What did Alexander the Great and other Greeks of his time think of the non-Persian civilizations/people of the Near East?
>>3192725
depends if they had handsome men among them
Why did they only intermarry with Iranians?
>>3193564
because Fersians are feminine and Greeks are relatively manly compared to Fersians
I know that during WW2 several countries had armies in exile after their governments capitulated (Poland and France being the two that come to mind).
My question is how did these armies resupply themselves with manpower since they were cut off from their home nations.
>>3192714
they didn't unless some people managed to GTFO from the nazi occupied lands and join them
>>3192714
Slip through neutral countries like Spain and then get to British ally Portugal
>>3192714
I don't know for the french, but when polish army in exile went to battle, they would take in poles who served in Wehrmacht and surrendered/deserted
Let's address the elephant in the room. /pol/. How do we get them to stay in their containment board? I for one am tired of "What race were the ancient Greeks and Egyptians?" threads.
Today's blatant /pol/ spam thread is: >>3192467
we need actual moderation and bannings but that seems to be a neverending shortage
otherwise we could all excercize discipline in not replying to shitposters, but that is easily subverted by the other shitposters just replying to each other
>>3192605
That's leftypol. They feel comfy here because you're all communists.
What was english plan during WW2 after french capitulation but before barbarrosa/pearl harbor?
I mean, they wouldn't be able to win alone against half of europe, but they still didn't wanted peace with german, so what were they planing?
>>3192594
They were planning to simply not lose until the Germans inevitably collapsed; they knew that the war economy of Nazi Germany was unstable, and that American aid was starting off and would probably ramp up as time went on, so as long as they didn't lose, their position would improve.
In the meantime, aerial bombing to hopefully try to try to break German morale, although that plan was really a bust.
Dig in, beg America. There's nothing wrong with that, destroyers for bases won the war of the atlantic
I've read that because the Americas extend north to south this limited the spread of disease and animal migrations compared to Europe and Asia.
Is this true, or is it an assumption with no proof? Was this the case for Africa too?
If it's true, then is there a reason for why animals and germs couldn't migrate from Canada to Peru for example? Mountains in the way, or different climates?
>>3192370
Read Guns, Germs and Steel for an in-depth analysis for this argument
Or read the wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel#Geography
>>3192393
That's a great article, thanks for sharing
>>3192370
If i'm not mistaken an additional reason Jared Diamonds gives is that there were simply less domesticated animals in the americas, meaning humans had less contact with animals and therefore less germs.
The whole north-south versus east-west thingy seemed convincing to me. As for Africa Diamond wrote that this had an impact on sub-saharan Africa as well, but to a lesser extent compared to the americas. No idea if diamond had any studies to back these ideas up.
The major barriers in the americas were according to diamond the deserts between the aztecs and north america and the isthmus of Panama, with it's jungles and shit blocking the way between mexico and the incas. As for africa, the main barrier eas obviously the sahara desert. Certain crops suited for most of Africa would not grow in the far south of the continent, limiting the spreas of agriculture.
Let's play, /his/.
Submit a historical figure, state or faction.
Then the tournament starts.
>>3192331
Cortez is my tribute
>>3192331
Napoléon Bonaparte.
>>3192331
Peter the great
How did the Haitian Revolution succeed where so many other slave rebellions in the past failed?
>>3192278
A combination of geography, harsh climate, and British military aid.
Tropical disease.
The French being busy doing other shit.
>succeed
lol