February 2012
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Anonymous asked: your personal blog link doesn't work
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“Their manoeuvres are like bloodless battles and their battles like bloody...”
– Josephus, Roman historian
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Kampfgruppe: Bristol at War. →
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Bristol was the fifth most heavily bombed British city of World War II. The presence of Bristol Harbour and the Bristol Aeroplane Company made it a target for bombing by the Nazi German Luftwaffe who were able to trace a course up the River Avon from Avonmouth using reflected moonlight on the…
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One of the strangest reasons for conflict was the War of Jenkins’ Ear, 1739. A Spanish ship intercepted a British merchant ship off Cuba in 1731. The British captain, Robert Jenkins, supposedly insulted the Spanish captain, who used his sword to cut off Jenkins’ ear. In 1738 Jenkins reported the incident to a committee of the House of Commons and said that his ear was ‘cut off in...
“A new force appeared. Suddenly war was the business of the people. Instead of...”
– Clausewitz on the concept of ‘Total War’ (1792-1815 revolutionary and Napoleonic wars) (from the previous limited warfare)
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“I adore war. It is like a big picnic. I have never been so well or so happy....”
– A British soldier writing in August 1914
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Anonymous asked: Alice from the block.
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“I rapidly grew to appreciate the fact that he had a military brain of the very...”
– Sir Alan Brooke (CIGS) on Stalin at Tehran
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Just watched Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy for the millionth time since I’ve had it on DVD, it’s seriously completely fantastic, I recommend if you haven’t seen, although its a slight mindfuck if you don’t know the story previously for the first couple of watches.
The book is ++++ also.
Goodnight.
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