What was the biggest alliance of individual nations ever?
NATO
The United Nations
>>3132002
NATO is very much a military alliance.
>A fucking Rockefeller was a U.S vice president.
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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.
Is there a more powerful "fuck you" in the face of enemy than this?
>The Leningrad première of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 occurred on 9 August 1942 during the Second World War, while the city of Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) was under siege by Nazi German forces.
>Despite the poor condition of the performers and many of the audience members, the concert was highly successful, prompting an hour-long ovation. The concert was supported by a Soviet military offensive, code-named Squall, intended to silence German forces during the performance. The symphony was broadcast to the German lines by loudspeaker as a form of psychological warfare. The Leningrad première was considered by music critics to be one of the most important artistic performances of the war because of its psychological and political effects. The conductor concluded that "in that moment, we triumphed over the soulless Nazi war machine".[1] Reunion concerts featuring surviving musicians were convened in 1964 and 1992 to commemorate the event.
>Loudspeakers broadcast the performance throughout the city as well as to the German forces in a move of psychological warfare, a "tactical strike against German morale".[12][35] One German soldier recalled how his squadron "listened to the symphony of heroes".[36] Eliasberg later met with some of the Germans who camped outside Leningrad during the performance, who told him that it had made them believe they would never capture the city: "Who are we bombing? We will never be able to take Leningrad because the people here are selfless".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRHZu5xoIe0
>>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
>>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.
Is blood memory a myth?
>>3131807
Yes
>>3131831
Wrong.
>>3131994
genetic data is not blood memory. That is not how genes work.
No.
Is there any historical legitimacy to West Papua's claims for independence? Why was the territory never transferred to Papua New Guinea instead?
>>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
>>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.
I was reading "The Lineages of Absolutist State", by Parry Anderson, and got me into thinking about the use of mercenary groups in national armys. Although this happened durring all history or at least, the majority of it, I can't ignore the feel that use of privaty military by nation-states is in rising again.
I may be mistaken, but I would love to hear the opnion of /his/ on this topic.
To make it clear, no, I don't think the use of mercenary companies is bad. But they so far had been doing some nasty things and I wonder if there is something on the past that can help us to deal with this suposed trend of the present.
>>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.
that allowed it to dominate.
Was it simply the result of geographical and historical situations/contexts, decline of China, the decline of the Arabic world etc.
or was their something unique about western culture, European culture that played a role in the success of the west?
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
does anyone know what this insignia means?
I just bought a soviet kursant uniform top, but ive never seen a star on the right shoulder board like that, does anyone know what that is or mean?
>>3131677
it's a K for Cadet
Tankist cadet uniform
>>3132081
tankist?
>"Fuck you obey the law"
Whoa! Truly enlightening, Shang! So this is the true power of Chinese philosophy...
>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
How did Europeans get rid of malaria?
Some scientists and historians believe malaria was key in the fall of Rome.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/malaria_01.shtml
>>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.
Thought Id ask you guys. I read that somehow teotihuacan went on a imperium fase and conquered mayan cities that even today are a whole day by car from them. Is this true? It really feels like the whole history of a part of humanity is lost to us.
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
what if the communists won the war in afghanistan against the jihadists ?
>>3131451
then it would still collapse and afghanistan would be a post communist state probably undergoing civil war between Islamist rebels and the government.
>>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
/thread
>December 7, 1941
>Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, starting the Pacific War
>Japanese fighter plane takes damage from an anti-aircraft gun during the attack
>Pilot tries to make it back to carrier but can't
>Ends of crashing on a nearby island
>The pilot (Shigenori Nishikaichi) survives the crash and is soon rescued by indigenous islanders
>Islanders (Native Hawaiians) are unaware of the Pearl Harbor attack, but they're suspicious so they take documents from the plane and refuse to return them
>The Hawaiians bring in a few Japanese-Americans who'd been living on the island to help them translate
>The Japanese-Americans almost immediately agree to help Nishikaichi recover the documents and escape from the island
*time skip*
>The Hawaiians learn of the Pearl Harbor attack
>The Japanese group tries to bribe an islander named Kaleohano into helping them escape the island
>He tells them to fuck off
>The pilot and his collaborators return to his plane, and remove the machine guns from the air-frame, and bring them back to the man's house. They open fire and then torch the house to destroy the documents
>At this point, the Japanese start taking hostages and threaten to kill everybody on the island unless they're allow to leave
>Hostages escape, in a final confrontation, Kaleohano and his wife both fight off the Japanese pilot and his allies together
>One of the Japanese-Americans commits suicide with a shotgun to avoid being captured
>The wife ends up bashing the Jap on the head with a rock, disorienting the pilot
>Kaleohano takes advantage of the momentary opening and slashes the pilot's throat with a hunting knife
*time skip*
>Kaleohano receives commendation directly from President Roosevelt for his actions during the incident
>The actions of the Japanese-Americans on the island are used to justify the internment of all Japanese in the USA
>>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
Be real, how brilliant was this man as a general?
>>3131386
How many wars did his generalship win again?
>>3131442
wew krauts BTFO again
ignore polfaggot threads
Why does western society axiomatically believe that technological advancement is good?
>>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