First World War officially ends (on Sunday)
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I've always found WW1 more scary/crazy/pointless than any other wars. The thought they just sent all those young men over the top directly into the enemy's MG fire for what? Ofcourse every war has/are tragedies, but this one always seemed extra crazy to me.
Old tactics are part of the mess, but it was more like old thinking in general. The Great War was the first industrial war, but it was fought with the old ideals about warfare, which had nothing to do with war at that time anymore, if they ever had, that is. The unleashed rage of the industrial war was something nobody could have even imagined in their worst nightmares...and the chaps in high command sitting in castles tens of miles behind the front were too senile or too inbred ever to notice that there was something seriously wrong in their doctrines. That war is actually pretty much incomprehensible, really.
I always thought the American Civil War was the first real industrial war - they certainly had some similarities with regards the carnage...
I would hope not. The Allies knew they made a mistake with Versailles.
That's pretty crazy alright. It does make me wonder what would have happened if modern Germany had just said no to paying such an old debt.
I very much doubt they would kick up another war 'just for that', perhaps being kicked out of EU or whatever? Seeing as so many people feel it's stupid to pay such an old debt, or weird at least, i wonder what a motivation could have been to pay regardless of guilt or innocence of the modern generation.
I very much doubt they would kick up another war 'just for that', perhaps being kicked out of EU or whatever? Seeing as so many people feel it's stupid to pay such an old debt, or weird at least, i wonder what a motivation could have been to pay regardless of guilt or innocence of the modern generation.
If I remember correctly, we already paid all our bills concerning WW2 somewhen in the 80's.
The reason why the reparations took so long to be paid was that after WW2, Germany and the allied countries from WW1 decided that Germany would start paying the still open bills from WW1 after it's reunification. Thus, payment started somewhere in the early 1990's and ended now, roughly 20 years later.
We can certainly make a case of calling it the first modern war (the tactics employed, i'd argue, makes that a very reasonable claim), but it's not really a thing of the industrial revolution, not like WWI was.
