Its interesting that modern neo-cons glorify the toughness of the Rural Man, but in times of war, the Rural Man does little to fight for his country or land. He is more often just a spectator to the war. The Urbanites men and women, often turn out to be the one who fight on in the face of adversity. - ThreadSky

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teufelwolf666.bsky.social • 26 days ago

Its interesting that modern neo-cons glorify the toughness of the Rural Man, but in times of war, the Rural Man does little to fight for his country or land. He is more often just a spectator to the war.
The Urbanites men and women, often turn out to be the one who fight on in the face of adversity.

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teufelwolf666.bsky.social•26 days ago

The Londoners in the Blitz, the Leningradians making soup from wall paper, the Viennese going to plays and theaters even as Soviets close in.

teufelwolf666.bsky.social•26 days ago

The man or women in uniform is no superior to the civilian. In any war its the civilians who bare the greatest burdens - they are more like to be killed, they are more likely to starve, and yet they will carry on.

Armies often break on cities, but they cut thru farmland like butter.

teufelwolf666.bsky.social•26 days ago

‘[A] vital lesson – one that has taken even air specialists by surprise,’ wrote Major Alexander Seversky, a leading American air strategist, in 1942, relates to the behaviour of civilian populations under air punishment.

teufelwolf666.bsky.social•26 days ago

It had been generally assumed that aerial bombardment would quite quickly shatter popular morale … The progress of this war has tended to indicate that this expectation was unfounded. On the contrary,

teufelwolf666.bsky.social•26 days ago

it now seems clear that despite large casualties and impressive physical destruction, civilians can ‘take it’. On the whole, indeed, armed forces have been more quickly demoralised by air power than unarmed city dwellers.

teufelwolf666.bsky.social•26 days ago

These facts are significant beyond their psychological interest. They mean that haphazard destruction of cities … is costly and wasteful in relation to the tactical results obtained. Attacks will increasingly be concentrated on military rather than on random human targets.

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