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Has anyone ever thought about how much movies and videogames distort our image of history? It legitimately makes me butthurt.
For example, a vast majority of the Vietnam war air bombardment campaigns yet the common idea of the war are a bunch of GIs traversing through the jungle and getting sniped by spooky pajama men while It ain't me is playing in the background because of fucking Platoon, Forrest Gump and Apocalypse Now.
Or the fact that the vast majority battlefield casualties in basically every large scale war (Napoleonic wars, US civil war, WW1, WW2) were caused by artillery is constantly ignored by the average normies because those wars aren't portrayed that way in the media.
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but most of the killing in Apocalypse Now is done by air bombardment
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Bondarchuk's Waterloo involved quite a bit of artillery.
I get the feeling they wanted to feature it more, but the prop department couldn't get the firing of cannons to look quite right.
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>>2364073
>Or the fact that the vast majority battlefield casualties in basically every large scale war (Napoleonic wars,
Roughly 70% of Napoleonic era casualties were from musket fire.
http://www.napolun.com/mirror/napoleonistyka.atspace.com/infantry_tactics_2.htm
Later wars would shift that around to making artillery the predominant killer, but by the Napoleonic era they hadn't quite gotten there yet.
Artillery was, however, crucial for its ability to concentrate fire on a specific point of the enemy force in a way that was tough to do with muskets.
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The majority of US deaths in Vietnam were pajama men though.
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>>2365248
Great link esp for someone who has a musket fetish
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