[robowombat]

Aside from sheer integral interest the question here is does the study of the past provide any utility to unserstanding the present. Arguement by analogy is dubious in the study of history. The best that can be said, seems to me, is that remembering how deadly serious past collisions between different cultures have been may at least warn us of what sort of struggle we are now in. Comments?

[connectthedots]

Military strategy on a large scale has changed little over the course of history. Tactics at the lower unit levels have evoled considerably based on experience and changes in weaponry.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Kind of makes Antietam looks like a paint-ball game.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

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[SunkenCiv]

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[Larry Lucido]

Ping for later reading.