Ken Burns is in your future

[senshi@lemmy.world]

You will have to be a lot more specific when talking about the British Empire…

[klear@lemmy.world]

Pretty sure they made a video game series about that.

[mojofrododojo@lemmy.world]

I think you may misunderstand. <edit or I’m misreading your replies>

Jacob’s book covers an all in exchange. everyone goes max. very little in the northern hemisphere would survive. a bit of planning, all the planning in the world - neither will save you when each side is maximizing the amount of fallout with ground strikes with megaton weapons.

the ‘lucky’ folk in the southern hemisphere will just have to wait until the after effects catch up to them.

Jacob’s scenario is megadeaths to gigadeaths - literally a billion dead directly (flash/blast/etc) and multiple billions dead shortly after. Krepinevich’s scenario is a few terrorists with tactical weapons.

these are wildly different things.

<edit I don’t think you’re meaning to downplay the seriousness of any kind of major nuclear exchange, but just underestimating how seriously civilization ending it is>

[mojofrododojo@lemmy.world]

prefer to close my eyes and count to fuck…

[undergroundoverground@lemmy.world]

I hope you’re not trying to refer to the one that’s 200 miles from Argentina because that would be hilarious.

[not_mikey@slrpnk.net]

Of course we can’t acknowledge it, because then we can’t make the same “mistake” again and people will start questioning real causus belli like saddams WMDs which we’ll find any day now.

[jigglysackles@lemmy.world]

I understood the joke just fine. I started my comment off with “I missed the memo” implying I never took any interest in wars or never got assigned a war to obsess over.

[neon@lemmy.world]

c/foundtheargentinian

[m0darn@lemmy.ca]

I just watched The Cynical Historian’s review of the recent Napoleon flick. It was great. The review I mean, not the movie. It tried to tell Napoleon’s whole story, which is just not feasible in the span of a single film.

I had no idea there were 7 coalition wars, that’s crazy.

[aqarius@lemmy.world]

Is there also a buff blonde dude with a sword in a fur loincloth?

[agent641@lemmy.world]

Vietnam got a rough fucking deal in the 1900s. Shortly after the US left, the Cambodians under Pol Pot invaded, and they were brutal

[gmtom@lemmy.world]

Are you dumb?

[gmtom@lemmy.world]

Hey, the Falklands is the one I’m obsessed with and it’s actually really interesting. Only “modern” war between near peers before ukraine.

[bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works]

Iran Iraq war also known as first gulf war?

[bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works]

China also invaded.

[bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works]

Buying, selling, using, abusing, growing, extracting, synthesizing, losing, hiding, educating, discarding, withdrawing, etc.

[icastfist@programming.dev]

Near peers? Pretty sure there’s a whole ocean separating Argentina and Britain, even if the islands where the conflict occurred were “just next door” to mainland Argentina.

[icastfist@programming.dev]

My case was Paraguay War a few weeks ago and I learned so damn much that school completely glossed over. What surprised me the most was just how much of a madman Solano Lopez, the Paraguayan dictator, was. You dare bring bad news to him? You bet your ass you’ll be flogged. You failed to follow one of his suicidal orders? Off to forced labor camp. You didn’t put him above God and Christ? Say your prayers, you’ll be shot bayoneted in order to save bullets.

[dragontypewyvern@midwest.social]

Wut

The Iraqi army got absolutely obliterated

[lime@feddit.nu]

i got the soviet-afghan war and wow did that recontextualize a lot of things about the modern world