[lit-ideas] Re: Virility and Slaughter
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 13:26:33 -0500
I don't mean to nit-pick, he said, preparing to
pick several, but the conquest of France in 1940 does not represent the
success of a new paradigm; it represents the conquest of organization
(German) over muddle and timidity (French and British)
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Robert's right of course. And the last two war-paradigms--nuclear and
information--have never, fortunately, been tested. "Fixed lines opposing
each other" was also a characteristic of the Franco-Prussian War, until
Napoleon III screwed it up.
In my opinion, the only real 20th century innovation is Blitzkrieg. The
Iraq War for example was Blitzkrieg-with-smart-bombs.
So one answer to RK's WWI slaughter question is that so much slaughter
ensued because that's how Europeans fought at the time.
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