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Hmm, "responsibility" was probably not the best choice of a word. How about "sharing the same defect"?


I had a couple moments lately where seemingly somewhat reasonable Americans wrote so...

Ain't it funny how you like the only two options that absolve you of responsibility for the issue?

Turning points of European WW2:

El Alamein for Commonwealth guys.
D-Day for Americans.
Stalingrad for everyone else.


The war was lost by Germany by late '41, though.
Almost nobody is going...

In the American world view ... because they showed up too late to play a role in the widely recognized turning point battles...



Aside from the M24 being equipped with a 76 mm* (based very much...

85 mm was only important in late '43 to '45. most of the time the Soviets used much more of several 76.2 mm gun types (interchangeable ammo tank <-> field gun) and the 76.2 mm calibre remained very...

Their 152 mm gun-howitzers were actually superior to German WW2 heavy howitzers. The small difference in calibre was more about metric vs other measurement system and history than anything else. Many...

Dayuhan, the last quote isn't mine.



The easiest way to look at it is to look at the goods trade balance of the UK in the late 19th century.
The human capital export was no doubt considerable,...

In some other places, they took the chieftain's land (usually the most fertile around), required everyone to pay taxes and made sure the only way to get cash was to work at low wages on the new...

Ganulv, your example is from a region where there was almost nothing to extract and thus very little effort on part of the English.
They were much more involved in places with natural riches and...

Indirect rule merely means that the lower and medium level bureaucracy are hired foreign personnel. The English were still in control and able to extract wealth - and the net transfer was likely...

Why should you? That wasn't the deal.

Besides, the age of overt empires is gone. We'd have World War 4 and the U.S. would lose if the U.S. attempted to grab the riches of the world.
It's not THAT...

Well, you first need to conquer AND defeat an eventual insurgency fully before you can play master fully.

The U.S. gets as much tribute from Iraqis after their insurgency as did the Romans from...

Come on. The Romans (original, Western and Eastern Empires!) even paid Barbarians for maintaining peace!

They didn't even get anything for it - instead, they paid to not lose something!

I probably misunderstood you, but I don't think what you think is moral would stand the Kant's Categorical Imperative test.

It's beside the point, but he actually did.

During his last days he married AND became convinced that the German race is not the superior race, but the inferior one (possibly even to the Slavs!)....

It applies to most people, certainly not to most nations.

"Standing" armies of that time were often half-time armies. The soldiers were on leave during crop harvest to work, reducing the fiscal cost and increasing critical seasonal manpower supply. The...

The "no representation" part is really the only one that I agree with fully. All else is either enabled by the same or bad government instead of real tyranny.
Standing military forces in a colony...

Isn't the whole list laughable?

Bys 1776 the English king wasn't really that much in power any more; prime ministers had been de facto in power for a long time by then (IIRC since the mid-17th...

Sticking with the RN, the dreadnought revolution is also of interest.
It was actually launched by the RN itself and the RN showed some good thinking when it produced the Dreadnought and Invincible...

You mean the guy who made sure Imperial Japan was cut off from oil imports?

A lot of nationalist or anti-colonialist movements were mistaken for being communist.
The problem was that the capitalist countries were also the old colonial powers, so the 2nd World assumed the...

The Germans assisted China as well (till 1937 IIRC), the Soviets assisted China (1939-1940 for gold IIRC), and the US. did very little in comparison prior to 1941. That doesn't mean much.

I think I can, this one came to my mind before I had completed reading your sentence:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Ahmad

Really? I think I remember some earlier ideology that used to "to leverage individuals and movements around the globe to their cause with modern information tools". They were intent on something...