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		<title>By: Nabuquduriuzhur</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nabuquduriuzhur]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Dec 2013 03:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It will be a war unlike any other. It will be a war of about 5% of the landmass with half the U.S. population, fighting the other 95% of the landmass. It will be very short, because the cities wherein evil today has degenerated to &quot;gimme something for nothing&quot;, have systematically eliminated manufacturing and resource extraction. They produce nothing while wanting everything from others. While they will have 150+million people, they quickly would have no water, food, electricity, fuel, ammunition, or anything else needed to maintain themselves.


Imagine being in a city with no services whatsoever when everyone who knew how to do anything has left and is fighting you. Liberal arts won&#039;t make for clean water. Or grow food. The sieges of the major cities will be some of the worst events since Stalingrad.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It will be a war unlike any other. It will be a war of about 5% of the landmass with half the U.S. population, fighting the other 95% of the landmass. It will be very short, because the cities wherein evil today has degenerated to &#8220;gimme something for nothing&#8221;, have systematically eliminated manufacturing and resource extraction. They produce nothing while wanting everything from others. While they will have 150+million people, they quickly would have no water, food, electricity, fuel, ammunition, or anything else needed to maintain themselves.</p>
<p>Imagine being in a city with no services whatsoever when everyone who knew how to do anything has left and is fighting you. Liberal arts won&#8217;t make for clean water. Or grow food. The sieges of the major cities will be some of the worst events since Stalingrad.</p>
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		<title>By: Nabuquduriuzhur</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nabuquduriuzhur]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Dec 2013 03:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No doubt of that. Stalin squandered 6 million troops in just the first year. The Wehrmacht on all fronts had about 4 million, total, at the onset of the war, 3 million of which were sent into Russia at the onset.


Shock armies and suicide battalions just didn&#039;t work that well against a well-trained enemy.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No doubt of that. Stalin squandered 6 million troops in just the first year. The Wehrmacht on all fronts had about 4 million, total, at the onset of the war, 3 million of which were sent into Russia at the onset.</p>
<p>Shock armies and suicide battalions just didn&#8217;t work that well against a well-trained enemy.</p>
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		<title>By: Alleged Comment</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2013 07:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to study war you don&#039;t have to reach for the tome of studying Greek history and consider yourself so erudite, you know.



A good cowboy/Calvary and Indian book will do the same.  I read one and I was completely surprised because it sounded very much the same as reading about what Islam and terrorist are doing to us today.


The writer even complained about the monetary cost of fight the war against Indians, of all things.  Sound familiar?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you want to study war you don&#8217;t have to reach for the tome of studying Greek history and consider yourself so erudite, you know.</p>
<p>A good cowboy/Calvary and Indian book will do the same.  I read one and I was completely surprised because it sounded very much the same as reading about what Islam and terrorist are doing to us today.</p>
<p>The writer even complained about the monetary cost of fight the war against Indians, of all things.  Sound familiar?</p>
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		<title>By: Geoffrey Megargee</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Geoffrey Megargee]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2013 14:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a military historian, I certainly agree with the central message that
 we should study war, but some of the author&#039;s examples strike me as 
simplistic. To look back at one historical development and try to draw 
specific policy conclusions from it is misguided. Such an approach is a 
leap of faith; it depends on the twin beliefs that historical accounts 
are absolutely accurate and that present circumstances mirror the past 
exactly. History serves as a source of wisdom and a cautionary tale. It does not offer pat solutions. &quot;We
 could have stopped Hitler in &#039;38, so we need to always act preemptively
 against aggression&quot; is the kind of 
thinking that one often sees when policymakers want to justify their 
preferred courses of action, and it&#039;s wrong on several levels.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As a military historian, I certainly agree with the central message that<br />
 we should study war, but some of the author&#8217;s examples strike me as<br />
simplistic. To look back at one historical development and try to draw<br />
specific policy conclusions from it is misguided. Such an approach is a<br />
leap of faith; it depends on the twin beliefs that historical accounts<br />
are absolutely accurate and that present circumstances mirror the past<br />
exactly. History serves as a source of wisdom and a cautionary tale. It does not offer pat solutions. &#8220;We<br />
 could have stopped Hitler in &#8217;38, so we need to always act preemptively<br />
 against aggression&#8221; is the kind of<br />
thinking that one often sees when policymakers want to justify their<br />
preferred courses of action, and it&#8217;s wrong on several levels.</p>
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		<title>By: Softly Bob</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Softly Bob]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2013 07:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By studying war we are trying to ensure that history does not repeat itself. For example, by studying Neville Chamberlain&#039;s disastrous appeasement of Nazi Germany we can be sure that nothing like that ever happens again.
So rest assured, nothing ever will. There&#039;s no way, for example that anybody will ever appease Iran over their nuclear weapons program.
Oh, wait a minute..... they already have.................
But this proves my point. This current generation is the misinformed generation. They believe that it is more important to study Leftist politics, revisionist history, women&#039;s studies, peace studies, and various other blocks of pseudo-intellectual garbage than it is to learn &#039;real&#039; history.
Hence the mess that we are in today.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>By studying war we are trying to ensure that history does not repeat itself. For example, by studying Neville Chamberlain&#8217;s disastrous appeasement of Nazi Germany we can be sure that nothing like that ever happens again.<br />
So rest assured, nothing ever will. There&#8217;s no way, for example that anybody will ever appease Iran over their nuclear weapons program.<br />
Oh, wait a minute&#8230;.. they already have&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<br />
But this proves my point. This current generation is the misinformed generation. They believe that it is more important to study Leftist politics, revisionist history, women&#8217;s studies, peace studies, and various other blocks of pseudo-intellectual garbage than it is to learn &#8216;real&#8217; history.<br />
Hence the mess that we are in today.</p>
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		<title>By: fish</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[fish]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2013 04:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The old testament is an excellent study in war. As is the life of Muhummad.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The old testament is an excellent study in war. As is the life of Muhummad.</p>
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		<title>By: truebearing</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[truebearing]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2013 00:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Think of war like the wild fires of the American west. The fires sweep through large  areas, burning trees and brush as part of a natural cycle. When too much fuel is present when hot, dry winds roar through the hills, fires quickly rage out of control. Putting out the small ones quickly only stores more fuel for the inevitable big fire.


Our societal denial of the necessity of war, driven by selfishness, cowardice, denial, and lies, will only mean there is more accumulated fuel once the fire of war is ignited. More ominous yet, Obama and the Left are laying off our &quot;firefighters.&quot; 


There is every reason to believe that Obama, knowing full well the world domination goal of Islam, is purposely stripping our nation of it&#039;s ability to defend itself, and destroying our allegiances, as well. He intends to see this nation destroyed, so one has to ask: what are we waiting for?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Think of war like the wild fires of the American west. The fires sweep through large  areas, burning trees and brush as part of a natural cycle. When too much fuel is present when hot, dry winds roar through the hills, fires quickly rage out of control. Putting out the small ones quickly only stores more fuel for the inevitable big fire.</p>
<p>Our societal denial of the necessity of war, driven by selfishness, cowardice, denial, and lies, will only mean there is more accumulated fuel once the fire of war is ignited. More ominous yet, Obama and the Left are laying off our &#8220;firefighters.&#8221; </p>
<p>There is every reason to believe that Obama, knowing full well the world domination goal of Islam, is purposely stripping our nation of it&#8217;s ability to defend itself, and destroying our allegiances, as well. He intends to see this nation destroyed, so one has to ask: what are we waiting for?</p>
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		<title>By: Wolfthatknowsall</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2013 18:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Drakken</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Drakken]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2013 18:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[War is a constant of the human condition and it has been this way since man picked up a rock.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>War is a constant of the human condition and it has been this way since man picked up a rock.</p>
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		<title>By: Drakken</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Drakken]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2013 18:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The left will make the next conflict an extremely bloody affair, for they deny reality at our peril. As an amusing observation, war is on the horizon and the left is doing everything it can to make it inevitable, I say let the left suffer the consequences of its actions.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The left will make the next conflict an extremely bloody affair, for they deny reality at our peril. As an amusing observation, war is on the horizon and the left is doing everything it can to make it inevitable, I say let the left suffer the consequences of its actions.</p>
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		<title>By: Wolfthatknowsall</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Wolfthatknowsall]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2013 18:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Primarily students have asked me why I volunteered for the Army in 1967, and then the Airborne, and finally for Vietnam duty.  They found it shocking that anyone would purposely put himself in a position where he could be killed, and he might kill others.

I put it this way, to my students.  Far from being a glorious thing, war is one of the most terrible things that the human race has imagined (and now, we know that other primates engage in warfare for territory, food, and captives).  However, I intended to become one of the privileged few ... a person attaining higher degrees and earning his living teaching philosophy to generations of young people.

How could I reconcile the fact that I refused to serve with the other fact that young men were being ripped from their occupations and pursuits in life, trained in war, and sent to the hell that was Vietnam?  It was my duty to &quot;avoid the draft&quot; by volunteering to serve.

The young draftees that I encountered were my heroes.  They served, even though they didn&#039;t want to.  By volunteering, I could live with myself ...]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Primarily students have asked me why I volunteered for the Army in 1967, and then the Airborne, and finally for Vietnam duty.  They found it shocking that anyone would purposely put himself in a position where he could be killed, and he might kill others.</p>
<p>I put it this way, to my students.  Far from being a glorious thing, war is one of the most terrible things that the human race has imagined (and now, we know that other primates engage in warfare for territory, food, and captives).  However, I intended to become one of the privileged few &#8230; a person attaining higher degrees and earning his living teaching philosophy to generations of young people.</p>
<p>How could I reconcile the fact that I refused to serve with the other fact that young men were being ripped from their occupations and pursuits in life, trained in war, and sent to the hell that was Vietnam?  It was my duty to &#8220;avoid the draft&#8221; by volunteering to serve.</p>
<p>The young draftees that I encountered were my heroes.  They served, even though they didn&#8217;t want to.  By volunteering, I could live with myself &#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Gee</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gee]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2013 16:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those that fail to prepare are the ones that are most likely to have to fight. The US made sure to make sure that the Soviets knew that they would not win a war during the Cold War - thus making sure that it didn&#039;t need to be progress to a shooting war]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Those that fail to prepare are the ones that are most likely to have to fight. The US made sure to make sure that the Soviets knew that they would not win a war during the Cold War &#8211; thus making sure that it didn&#8217;t need to be progress to a shooting war</p>
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		<title>By: Hallgard Vormann</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hallgard Vormann]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2013 12:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;“Germany would have faced overwhelming Allied superiority . . . The results would have been inevitable and would have led to the eventual collapse of the Nazi regime at considerably less cost” than the butcher’s bill of World War II.&quot;



German troops were outnumbered all the time and on both fronts. The reason they still had such success was the combination of superiority in tactics, good officers and high-quality soldiers. In terms of iron and manpower, they were always the underdogs.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;“Germany would have faced overwhelming Allied superiority . . . The results would have been inevitable and would have led to the eventual collapse of the Nazi regime at considerably less cost” than the butcher’s bill of World War II.&#8221;</p>
<p>German troops were outnumbered all the time and on both fronts. The reason they still had such success was the combination of superiority in tactics, good officers and high-quality soldiers. In terms of iron and manpower, they were always the underdogs.</p>
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		<title>By: timpottorff</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[timpottorff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2013 11:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excellent writing. The thread throughout the entire article is the necessity of war because of the fallen nature of humankind. That one obvious and crucial tenet is the thorn that most Progressives want badly to deny. They will re-write the problem to lack of employment, bad environment, or lack of education or racisim of some kind. The Left&#039;s pursuit of utopia is blind to the brutal reality of man&#039;s fallen nature.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Excellent writing. The thread throughout the entire article is the necessity of war because of the fallen nature of humankind. That one obvious and crucial tenet is the thorn that most Progressives want badly to deny. They will re-write the problem to lack of employment, bad environment, or lack of education or racisim of some kind. The Left&#8217;s pursuit of utopia is blind to the brutal reality of man&#8217;s fallen nature.</p>
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		<title>By: Nixys</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nixys]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2013 10:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good article.


There is a tendency in the modern &quot;biological reductionist&quot; line of thought to attribute all war now and forever to testosterone, or youth bulges, or chemicals in the brain, etc. While that explanation may have a bit of truth to it, I dislike it. 



I have come to think that war is best described as a way of solving conflicts. In that sense, it is deeply human in a slightly higher sense, and not quite merely animalistic. To me, war is essentially what happens when two people cannot agree, and they say, &quot;find, let&#039;s have an arm wrestling match or a duel&quot;, or whatever. That analogy makes sense to me- war is communication writ large, usually a last resort way of settling conflicts and making judgements. There is even some honor in that definition of war.


I do think more &quot;animalistic&quot; brutish war exists as well, but that&#039;s not a good enough description for me.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good article.</p>
<p>There is a tendency in the modern &#8220;biological reductionist&#8221; line of thought to attribute all war now and forever to testosterone, or youth bulges, or chemicals in the brain, etc. While that explanation may have a bit of truth to it, I dislike it. </p>
<p>I have come to think that war is best described as a way of solving conflicts. In that sense, it is deeply human in a slightly higher sense, and not quite merely animalistic. To me, war is essentially what happens when two people cannot agree, and they say, &#8220;find, let&#8217;s have an arm wrestling match or a duel&#8221;, or whatever. That analogy makes sense to me- war is communication writ large, usually a last resort way of settling conflicts and making judgements. There is even some honor in that definition of war.</p>
<p>I do think more &#8220;animalistic&#8221; brutish war exists as well, but that&#8217;s not a good enough description for me.</p>
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		<title>By: UCSPanther</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[UCSPanther]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2013 08:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.</p>
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