We need to briefly outline how wahrs were fought even though we will likely never see them fought this way again. Don’t look for open engagements with lines of troops shooting at one another, or charging into one another…unless, like…
Prussians, Monty Python and the Stupidity of Blind Believers; The Thinking Beneath the Thinking
In August, 1914, the first month of World War I, (then, also expected to be the last month), a German scientist, sitting with a group in Aachen which included Irvin S Cobb, then-journalist for the “Saturday Evening Post” (and highest…
When Atrocities go Unpunished They Become de facto Legal
(The featured art is from the British magazine “Punch” in September, 1914, and it reads “God and Women our Shield!”) World War I began in August, 1914, with an invasion by Kaiser Wilhelm’s Germany into France, essentially to finish a…