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This reads like the History Channel's version of "military history" where it is 80% WWII with a little US Civil War thrown in during off hours. If all you talk
by sandworm101 4y ago
This reads like the History Channel's version of "military history" where it is 80% WWII with a little US Civil War thrown in during off hours. If all you talk about is the last few decades of US military history, all you will ever get is a myopic view of how one culture/country relates to a handful of its institutions.
- openasocket 4y agoAnd a myopic, US-centric, view of WW2 at that. It truly was a global war, involving nations from 6 continents. Yet how often to you hear about the fighting in Africa, or China? China saw nearly an order of magnitude more people dead than the U.S., but could anyone here name a major battle or campaign in the Chinese theater? When was the last time you saw references to the Indian famine, which killed millions? The devastation in Ethiopia, or the Baltics? There’s an entire world of history in the Second World War, but all too often we scratch the surface, with an eye focused entirely on the US and Western Europe.