> The so-called “drums and trumpet school” of examining battles and generals isn’t the only game in town. Might be nice if someone propagated this information

> The so-called “drums and trumpet school” of examining battles and generals isn’t the only game in town. Might be nice if someone propagated this information to Wikipedia. Seemingly on every military-related article there is an attempt to shoehorn the conflict into a neat table listing "belligerents" and "casualties and losses", complete with little flags as if it's an 1800s-style cavalry battle [0]. As far as I can tell, the purpose of these tables is not really about providing an accurate summary of the conflict; it's about providing material so that war nuts can get their rocks off thinking about the violence. [0] See, for example, the attempt to condense the Troubles into such a table: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles