Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.heimat.gr.jp!taurus!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!nntp.gol.com!203.216.70.8.MISMATCH!not-for-mail From: Brett Robson Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.british,soc.culture.scottish,soc.culture.china,fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Why do chinks hate japs and not brits? Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 11:21:21 +0900 Organization: FusionGOL - Global Online Japan Lines: 50 Message-ID: References: <5eb15984.0411200235.6b8e011b@posting.google.com> <419f9a70.10682090@news> <41a11116.16561714@news> <41A33EF9.9030506@hotmail.com> <41a4e552.16329760@news> NNTP-Posting-Host: 203-216-000-091.engineering.gol.ad.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: nnrp.gol.com 1101349283 12467 203.216.0.91 (25 Nov 2004 02:21:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@gol.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 02:21:23 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041007 Debian/1.7.3-5 X-Accept-Language: en In-Reply-To: Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:22422 Ernest Schaal wrote: > in article co3ckl$bcv$1@nnrp.gol.com, Brett Robson at deep_m_m@hotmail.com > wrote on 11/25/04 10:31 AM: > > >> >>Ernest Schaal wrote: >> >> >>>The "Great War" was a case study of European generals wedded to tactics >>>outmoded by technology. >> >>Bullshit. > > > Wow, how persuasive. I am not trying to be persuasive and I am not trying to win an argument. You are wrong. >>I haven't got time to lecture you, read some real history, the >>early campaigns and especially the mobile warfar in Belgium and >>France, the early Russian successes, and the Battle of Tannenberg. > > > Apparently, you not only haven't the time to lecture me, you also don't have > the grasp of history? > > While the first year saw rapid movement at the beginning, stalemate quickly > followed and the war of attrition began. You are obviously unaware of the developments tactics during this time. Stalemate only means neither side was able to gain advantage; not that "European generals [were] wedded to tactics outmoded by technology". Napoleonic type victories where the enemy is completely swept from the battlefield are rare in modern times as technology and professionalism are relatively equal between enemies (The Iraq Invasion being an obvious exception). Looking forward to you rolling out other gems like generals train for the previous wars.