(PDF) A. C. Grayling, Among the Dead Cities: The History and Moral Legacy of the WWII Bombing of Civilians in Germany and Japan :Among the Dead Cities: The History and Moral Legacy of the WWII Bombing... PDF | On Jan 1, 2007, Christopher J. Eberle published A. C. Grayling, Among the Dead Cities: The History and Moral Legacy of the WWII Bombing of Civilians in Germany and Japan :Among the Dead Cities: ...

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Among the Dead Cities Is it ever right to target civilians in a time of war? Or do the ends sometimes justify the means? The twentieth century - the age of 'total war' - marked the f…

Strong disagree. This is an interesting examination of Harris and Bomber Command vs the USAAF daylight precision bombing strategy

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He also advocated the entire obliteration of Germany. Cities, art, culture, everything. Erase from the maps and history.

Yeah that was not going to fly with the rest of the government or American allies.

Harris wasn't making any friends in the Army 8th Air force. He kept mocking daylight precision bombing of strategic targets as a "panecea" and insisted that massed night raids on cities was the only correct course.

Good quote, and he was also such a genocidal asshole that he became an embarrassment to Churchill and the King, who had to rein him in the mass fire bombings in 1945 after it was obvious that Germany was through. He fucked off to South Africa after the war.

Patrick Henry Speech Before Virginia Ratifying Convention Mr. HENRY. Mr. Chairman, I am much obliged to the {44} very worthy gentleman for his encomium. I wish I was possessed with talents, or possessed of any thing that […]

It's weirdly hard to find the full text of his speech at the Virginia ratifying convention online lol, this is the one I always use: teachingamericanhistory.org/document/pat...

Patrick Henry, hero of the Revolutionary War, first and sixth Governor of Virginia, objected to the proposed Constitution of 1787 not least because it would have done away with the natural, unalienable right of a majority of the community to alter or abolish their form of government

I'm sure Alito is fuming about the Virginia vote and itching to strike down the rest of the Voting Rights Act as petty revenge.

But Democrats are likely retaking the House, maybe the Senate, no matter what SCOTUS does now.

Killing the VRA would just be a final insult that speeds court reform.

Ballet pic of the day

Pit Bühler Photography

Yeah, I, uh read that in disbelief and tried to find if any other source was running that story.

Nope

🎶I DIDN'T FART, YOU LIAR!🎶

Beginning to think the Iranians are stupid enough to seize defeat from the jaws of victory

Ethics complaints

Condemned, although nobody actually says that explicitly. So the guy would spill his guts to try to get out what he thinks is a summary court martial followed by a firing squad but nobody actually threatened him as such. They made the mise-en-scene look threatening. It still generated some

An interesting high pressure interrogation technique used against some German POWs was "The Schnell"

The prisoner was hustled by MPs to a dark room with a small desk that had a candle and Bible on top and a couple unsmiling officers seated behind. The obvious implication was you are about to be

Not surprising

*Jody is a generic term for any REMF/non deployed or non enlisted civilian who steals girlfriends.

Lot of stuff about how the perfidious Jewish banker guy back home was stealing your wife/GF and it was just ridiculous and stupid. Virtually nobody paid attention to it. The whole "Jody* got your girl" was a real meme at the time but nobody thought that Jewish men were stealing all the women.

Our Constitution put an armored door on the cockpit

With Zeal and With Bayonets Only - University of Oklahoma Press The image is indelible: densely packed lines of slow-moving Redcoats picked off by American sharpshooters. Now Matthew H. Spring reveals how British infantry...

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Read theory (specifically the valley forge chapter)

Revoking the tab of every woman who earned it would, in fact, be a very fucked up and bad thing that leads to mid career women leaving the army and diminished promotion opportunities for those who stay.

In the Civil War, "Roughly 500,000 soldiers perished from diseases such as diarrhea, dysentery, and typhoid, which killed twice as many men as battle wounds. Roughly 250,000 died from battle wounds or accidents."

Disease prevention is absolutely vital to war-fighting capability.

Sympathy laugh from the jury could help

Nazi propaganda towards the Allies in WW2 was ham-handed and usually misunderstood the audience and culture.

Lego perv Trump chasing little girls is kinda damning

Obviously they have their own ulterior motives, but Iranian propaganda is very clever - and effective - to focus on deriding Trump rather than Americans per se.