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re: What would be the worst war to fight in in history?
Posted on 1/18/20 at 10:50 pm to Martini
Posted on 1/18/20 at 10:50 pm to Martini
I was a combat Marine in Vietnam and wound up with two Purple Hearts for my efforts. I am prejudiced toward “my” war. It was a cruel and miserable existence.
But y’all are forgetting battles like that of the Chosin Reservoir in Korea. Merely existing in -20 degree temps in the open are brutal enough. Try fighting with frozen fingers and inoperable weapons and retreating on frost-bitten feet. This also applies to the Eastern Front in WWII Russia and probably Valley Forge. The wounded had little chance of recovery and troops simply froze to death at their posts.
A person can cope, though not easily, with excessive heat and rain but the human body simply cannot function in extreme cold. Add to that all the extremes of war.
But y’all are forgetting battles like that of the Chosin Reservoir in Korea. Merely existing in -20 degree temps in the open are brutal enough. Try fighting with frozen fingers and inoperable weapons and retreating on frost-bitten feet. This also applies to the Eastern Front in WWII Russia and probably Valley Forge. The wounded had little chance of recovery and troops simply froze to death at their posts.
A person can cope, though not easily, with excessive heat and rain but the human body simply cannot function in extreme cold. Add to that all the extremes of war.
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Posted on 1/18/20 at 10:56 pm to MDB
^^^
Reading about Chosin and the Eastern Front with the temperatures they endured is mindblowing knowing what little winter gear they had. And knowing the quality of it was far less than available today.
Reading about Chosin and the Eastern Front with the temperatures they endured is mindblowing knowing what little winter gear they had. And knowing the quality of it was far less than available today.
Posted on 1/18/20 at 11:01 pm to red sox fan 13
St. George on a Saturday night is worse than any of the world wars.
Posted on 1/18/20 at 11:09 pm to red sox fan 13
Any war before the discovery of antibiotics.
Posted on 1/19/20 at 12:04 am to Martini
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Read All Quiet on the Western Front. Great book I read every few years.
Yes. I've read it several times. Old LSU History major here. Johnny Got his Gun by Dalton Trumbo is another good book about the horror of WW1, but it doesn't have the detail of the day to day shitty life of a soldier. It is a really disturbing look at the life of an injured soldier.
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Posted on 1/19/20 at 12:31 am to Kim Jong Ir
I told my teacher in middle school I had read that and she said I was unAmerican. fricking A.
One thing about the middle modern age. More people died of cannon during the Napoleonic wars. More people died of rifles in the civil war. I always found that interesting.
One thing about the middle modern age. More people died of cannon during the Napoleonic wars. More people died of rifles in the civil war. I always found that interesting.
Posted on 1/19/20 at 1:03 am to athenslife101
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I told my teacher in middle school I had read that and she said I was unAmerican. fricking A.
Trumbo was a commie, who moved to Mexico rather than renounce communism.
Posted on 1/19/20 at 2:06 am to red sox fan 13
WWI
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Picture taken during the Battle of Verdun, one of the most deadliest battles of the Great War. The concentration of so much fighting in such a small area devastated the land, resulting in miserable conditions for troops on both sides. The shells turned up the earth and left gigantic craters that would then fill with water in the unbelievably heavy rains. Many parts of the western front essentially became mud holes, where you could often have 6-10 ft (2-3 m) of thick mud before hitting dry earth. Falling in some of these places would be equatable to slower, thicker, stickier quicksand. Once soldiers were trapped in it often it was impossible to extract them. Soldiers would beg their friends to shoot them and spare them the agony of slowly drowning in the mud.
Posted on 1/19/20 at 4:23 am to red sox fan 13
Julis Caesar vs Vercingetirix in Gaul. The killing was up close, personal and covered in gore.
Posted on 1/19/20 at 4:30 am to red sox fan 13
A civil war battle.
The stuff they fired out of cannons was just sadistic.
Two small cannon balls with a chain between them so it would become a projectile clothesline that would snap legs
The stuff they fired out of cannons was just sadistic.
Two small cannon balls with a chain between them so it would become a projectile clothesline that would snap legs
Posted on 1/19/20 at 5:57 am to red sox fan 13
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Posted on 1/19/20 at 6:34 am to red sox fan 13
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What wars am I leaving out?
Cold War
Posted on 1/19/20 at 6:39 am to Taurus
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You have any context for your argument, you dink? Bring it.
How about combining industrial scale brutality (which is a scale that’s debatable) with a sense of senselessness and despair on both the tactical and strategic levels.
You would throw away thousands of lives to move a line 10 foot.
Posted on 1/19/20 at 6:43 am to Armymann50
Ottoman war
Braveheart war
Braveheart war
Posted on 1/19/20 at 6:53 am to red sox fan 13
The worst war that has happened? World War I. The worst war that could happen? A conventional war between India and China.
Posted on 1/19/20 at 6:58 am to KillTheGophers
Stalingrad
Posted on 1/19/20 at 7:19 am to red sox fan 13
Visit the National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Frederick, Maryland for your answer.
The medical treatment was nothing short of barbaric. Shot in the leg and the morphine and chloroform had all been used? A bunch of guys held you down while they cut off the leg.
That is where the term "bite the bullet" came from. They gave you a mini ball to to bite down on.
Wounds that would be considered minor by today's standards were often fatal due to infection or gangrene.
All wars fought before then had to be even worse.
Civil War surgical kit. Looks like fun.
The medical treatment was nothing short of barbaric. Shot in the leg and the morphine and chloroform had all been used? A bunch of guys held you down while they cut off the leg.
That is where the term "bite the bullet" came from. They gave you a mini ball to to bite down on.
Wounds that would be considered minor by today's standards were often fatal due to infection or gangrene.
All wars fought before then had to be even worse.
Civil War surgical kit. Looks like fun.
Posted on 1/19/20 at 7:20 am to red sox fan 13
I’m thinking defending an attack against the Mongols.
Posted on 1/19/20 at 7:20 am to troyt37
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Trumbo was a commie, who moved to Mexico rather than renounce communism.
He went to jail for contempt of Congress after refusing to testify in a hearing that many considered to be a witch hunt. After he got out, he moved his family to Mexico for 2 years to let the heat die down. He moved back and worked in Hollywood and died in LA about 25 years later.
I wonder if any of the irony does not escape you.
Posted on 1/19/20 at 7:21 am to red sox fan 13
What is the worst war ? There is a good one to fight in?
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