Bluesky is a retirement home for 39 year old millennials who are forcibly turning themselves into history dads (nongendered) so if you have a hot take about one of the more popular history dad wars you had better come strapped
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“More like the Whinemore Republic” I say out loud to my dog as I pass the 17-hour mark on the audiobook, noticing with a passing glance at the box that we are low on fiber cereal.
I really should have said the Jacobite Rebellion. Culloden was just the dismal end. But damn, if the Jacobites had taken London and overthrown the Hanovers, when they absolutely could have, instead of turning back? Game changer.
Motherfucker should've gotten captured w his local men in the Philippines if he was going to parade around the whole war wearing the hat he designed for them
I mean that is such a question...jeeeez. greatest general? As a general, qua general, I think it's gotta be Sherman. The man had great plans and executed.
But 250 years is broad... We could do it by war. These are my picks as tactical leaders. Washington and Eisenhower were amazing political leaders, but especially the former wasn't great battle to battle.
Revolutionary War: Greene
1812: Jackson (RIPiss)...
Civil War: Sherman
WWI: Dunno enough tbh
WWII: I guess Patton? He broke out of Normandy and relieved bastogne. (RiPiss)
Korea: Ridgway
Vietnam: uhhh
The rest, I mean how can you even tell what a good general is when you're fighting the Iraqi army, which couldn't handle an embargoed Iran.
Pompei would have done hella better if he’d ignored the senate’s demands for a show, but also he’d have benefited from not having been retired from being a general for so long beforehand.
But that's probably the biggest problem with Civil War generalship: No one in overall command of pretty much anything on either side of the war understood they were fighting a WAR instead of "a series of battles" until Grant wrecked Pemberton at Vicksburg.
"Some of the most interesting events of the war happened west of the Mississippi, but none of the really famous generals were there, so it gets ignored."
Free plug for a great book I finished a couple weeks ago while I was on an amazing Disney cruise that I still need to tell Swolecialism's kid(s) about:
Also: at one point, he describes a guy as being "Perhaps the most incompetent general on either side of the war" which is the sickest burn ever
BTW: I'm not sure how long I'll keep up the bit about telling @swolecialism.bsky.social kids about how great Disney cruises are; I just found it funny that he posted about his kids watching Disney cruise videos and needing to de-program them the literal day before I took my family on one.
Germany coming as close as it did to winning World War 1 is all the more remarkable when you realize that it was allied with 2 sub-replacement level militaries that it repeatedly had to bail out (and Bulgaria).
Folks don't talk enough about the Japanese nuclear bomb program in WW2, and how its details can be used to infer reactions to different outcomes post VE Day...
Maybe more people will understand how important it is to known WHAT HAS FUCKING ALREADY HAPPENED, so we don’t continually retread the same foul ground.
Okay, but the collapse of the USSR is an insane overlooked Rosetta Stone of history and not just “huurrr durr we made the Soviets spend too much on the military.”
as gen z, id rather have this than what twitter became and seemingly what tiktok comments are turning into 😭😭at least i get to learn about the old days 🙏
the Slave Power “conspiracy theory” was essentially correct and the proto-Confederacy only seriously offered the rhetoric of states’ rights after the election of 1860 upset their plans to suborn the federal government to advance their ultimate goal of a hemispheric slaveocracy
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I SAID what I SAID
Can you match that second hand, fictionalized, knowledge?
I think not.
Plus, I've watched Time Team on YouTube so I think you're in trouble
C’mon man, Sharpe probably can’t even swim.
I don't turn 39 until September. That's four more months!
1. 2
2. civil
3. 1
4. Revolutionary
5. 1812
6. English Civil
7. Nam
8. Korean
9. Span-Am
10. Mex-Am
Directly influencing both demographic trends and influencing the development of revolutionary sentiment in the United States in this essay I will
MacArthur was a bad general.
Revolutionary War: Greene
1812: Jackson (RIPiss)...
WWI: Dunno enough tbh
WWII: I guess Patton? He broke out of Normandy and relieved bastogne. (RiPiss)
Korea: Ridgway
Vietnam: uhhh
The rest, I mean how can you even tell what a good general is when you're fighting the Iraqi army, which couldn't handle an embargoed Iran.
MacArthur was a TERRIBLE general.
The problem was that the order to start burning things came like 3 years after it should have.
Also: at one point, he describes a guy as being "Perhaps the most incompetent general on either side of the war" which is the sickest burn ever
In this essay, I will...."
1. Pearl Harbor
2. Midway
3. "Island hopping!"
4. Iwo Jima + Okinawa
5. Atomic Bombs
Maybe more people will understand how important it is to known WHAT HAS FUCKING ALREADY HAPPENED, so we don’t continually retread the same foul ground.
I turned 40 like 4 days ago, so this is slightly inaccurate