OT - favorite era / theater of war

[Quikngruvn]

Medieval. Swords on shields, lances and armor, and a great big gory mess!

Quikngruvn

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Stay alert. Trust no one. Keep your laser handy.
--from the RPG Paranoia, now my PBW mantra

[Sabre21]

All of you guys have brought up some very interesting era's. The time periods including Alexander the Great, the ancient Egyptians and Romans, the Medieval times and the Crusades, Ghengis Khan, the American Revolution and Civil Wars, Napoleon, the American West, the World Wars, the Arab-Israeli Wars...all of these and many more have held my interest over the years. As soon as I get thru one time period, I find another that I know nothing about...but of all these...what really holds my interest...are the battles of tomorrow. We are heading into an era where technologies will connect everyone on the battlefield, where even the poor foot soldier is tied in digitally to his squad mates and is equipped with the latest tech. Weapons that are not just smart, but brilliant...that seek out their targets using onboard AI. We are so close to directed energy weapons, and I don't just mean enhanced lasers, I mean blow them out of the sky type phasers, and that the battlefields of tomorrow will be unlike anything in the past with the exception of the blood and gore. Let's just hope we don't get too smart for our britches and end up having to fight the machines we create like in Terminator.

Sabre21

[Puke]

Lets drink a toast to those clever bombs, and the men who built them.


and unlike Danny Elfman, I mean that wholeheartedly.

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"...the green, sticky spawn of the stars"
(with apologies to H.P.L.)

[tesco samoa]

Puke

John Erickson's The road to Stalingrad

and the classic

Russia at war by Alexander Werth.

Finland in the second world war -
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The Winter War - V. Tanner

[Puke]

Thanks, I actually have The Winter War on order, as well as A Frozen Hell by William R Trotter. I hear there is a forign film about the war as well, but I dont know too much about the details.

On the topic of WWII reading, I recently digested Inside The Third Reich, memoires of Albert Speer. Very good read, I cant recommend it more.


edit: actually, the copy of _The Winter War_ that I have on order is by Eloise Engle, is there another that I should be aware of?
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"...the green, sticky spawn of the stars"
(with apologies to H.P.L.)

[This message has been edited by Puke (edited 17 August 2001).]

[Atrocities]

Korean era. The onset of jet fighters, earily jet bombers, the New M26 tanks and such. Still using Tompsons, and M1 Grands.

Battleships were still a significant part of the fleet.

[tesco samoa]

Removed link.

[This message has been edited by tesco samoa (edited 17 August 2001).]