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Creator of History of the Great War and History of the Second World War weekly history podcasts. Always ready and willing to discuss video games, Tolkien, and the Detroit Red Wings
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What they don't know is that further east the advance the FURTHER they are from actually winning.
I guess in modern parlance, I need to change my strategy to be far more "YOLO"
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The Germans only get as far as they do into Russia because from June 22 onwards the decision makers all seem to have this belief that they are just weeks away from the Soviet Union collapsing, and those weeks are always the next ones.
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Aligns with what I expected after seeing Part 1. I will go see it, have watched all of them since 3 in the cinema with my wife, but my expectations are not as high as they were back in the Ghost Protocol days.
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Nobody hates my writing as much as I hate my writing.
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The real question is, at what number/anniversary do we get History Rage Rages About the History Rage Podcast? Surely there are some things you have said along the way that you have different thoughts on now.
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Motorcycles or ATVs also further expand the scope of the terrain where movement is possible.
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I agree it is not about history at all and instead just a general surprise at time spent learning academic anything. Spending your time fishing, woodworking, or reading fiction? Great!
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I wonder how many of those businesses are just exploiting the people who got into podcasting to "get rich" during the big rush over the 2020-2023 period.
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I don't talk much about what I do for the podcast, but people generally know, it is attached to my government name so it isn't like it is hidden.
I get fewer "weird" reactions and more "how is that even possible?" like the idea of researching and writing is some sort of insurmountable challenge.
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Quite jarring, I also forgot about the blistering speed of those first 30 or so minutes of Rogue One. The story gets to Jedha REAL fast.
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How did you get it that low?
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Just the kind of completely backwards thinking I would expect from the Dem leadership.
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Still wrong, needs to be on MY shelf. ;)
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Would be curious to see what you come up with. I have thought of doing something similar over the years. I don't think my pod is a great avenue for book reviews, I think they would have different audiences.
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I feel like that could make for a really interesting series. Then maybe finish it off with a third series post-Endor that covers the building of the New Republic in the same way that Andor did with the Rebellion.
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Reporting on local government seems to be almost universally horrible. Probably due to all the news consolidations over the decades.
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Given the state of...everything...might as well be the slogan of Earth.
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100% a design decision. People are using them because they want questions answered, for most users it is probably more desirable for a confident answer that is wrong25% of the time rather than uncertainty most of the time.
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Danny, I think it is against the law to scale your business responsibly. Are you sure you don't want to gather up a bunch of VC money so that you can massively staff up and then have it all implode? It is the American way.
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I don't know, I think you could have went a bit more in depth into that one thing.
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What is this? The 80s?
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It is funny that you mention that because the reason for the original post was me trying to organize the German Armored Divisions at the start of Barbarossa by combat strength based on number and type of armored vehicles they were equipped with. Vast chasm between the best and worst.
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It would never be a perfect metric, but what is most commonly used now can be so deceiving that the bar is so low for something to be better.
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Numbers, supplies, equipment, and most importantly experience drastically impact how Infantry Division X and Y contribute to a battle. But the fact that they are often grouped in histories as simply two Infantry Divisions leads most readers to assume they are the same.
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Divisions/squadrons/batteries is a completely useless way to talk about military strength due to the vast differences between divisions, even within the same army and of the same type. Makes it very hard to communicate what the expectations of a given formation should be.
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Weird, for me that is just a textbox that I can type anything I want in.
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On the way to school the other day my 8 year old explained to me what a Rickroll is
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Perfect, no notes.
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Just a nice quick 1,000 page read.
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Love a good signal flag.
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100% agree.
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The only advances they planned on doing were into Belgium so that they were not fighting in France.
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But an Allied army that was not really prepared to attack, and two groups of political leaders that were already prepared to fight a Long War strategy. Very possible they just hang out until the Germans try again at some point in late-40 or 41
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The biggest problem with it having an impact is that the Soviets had already agreed to invade Poland. So the outcome in Poland does not change, just the proportion of territory captured from the East.
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Really it is all the difference between paper (theoretical) value and actual value. The designs had strengths, but they were unrealized for other reasons, numbers, logistics, etc.
Always find it funny that the Germans were on the exact other side of paper vs actual with their late war tank designs
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Everything I have ever read, that was reputable, makes it seem like the equipment and manpower advantages that the SS units had had a much higher influence on their successes than anything else. That equipment would have better served the German army in other units with more experience.
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Depends on what you consider "winning" for the French stopping the German attack somewhere in eastern France/the Low Countries would be seen by all sides as the French "winning" in 1940. They were capable of that, they just made mistakes.
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It is amazing if you start listing out some of the small things that would need to happen for it to fail. This one counter attack works just marginally better here, this counterattack happens 12 hours earlier over here, that one unit repels that one small German attack on the Meuse, etc.
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The boring truth is that if Gelb fails you just end up with some period of largely static warfare, not to 14-18 standards but some period of months where both sides just kind of hang out and build up forces for what happens next.
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I don't think so. Their army just was not built for that kind of operation, and to make it built for that kind of operation is going to require major changes to the timeline.
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Andor is some of my favorite television of all time, and I still think it is helped by my low expectations for quality when it comes to anything in the Star Wars universe.