Which war is the most exciting to learn about

[aequitas-et-veritas]

the THIRTY YEARS WAR is interesting…I don’t know if it would be worth studying it…

[allboxcars]

@ABWorsham:

The War of Southern Independence.

Hey, is that a.k.a. The War of Northern Aggression?

Anyway, WW2 got my vote, from the perspective of someone not knowing the target audience, as most interesting to study solely on the basis of recency and quality of documentation with emphasis on video footage.

Properly, and passionately, pursued the study of any war can be extremely interesting!!!  :-D

#651

[calvinhobbesliker]

@allboxcars:

@ABWorsham:

The War of Southern Independence.

Hey, is that a.k.a. The War of Northern Aggression?

Anyway, WW2 got my vote, from the perspective of someone not knowing the target audience, as most interesting to study solely on the basis of recency and quality of documentation with emphasis on video footage.

Properly, and passionately, pursued the study of any war can be extremely interesting!!!  :-D

#651

Actually, the South fired the first military shot

[allboxcars]

@calvinhobbesliker:

Actually, the South fired the first military shot

Ah yes… and yet when I visited South Carolina, to hear them tell of it, you wouldn’t think so.  :-D

#653

[calvinhobbesliker]

Yeah, well every combatant in war tells themselves and/or their people that they were attacked; never that they were the aggressor

[ABWorsham4]

@calvinhobbesliker:

Yeah, well every combatant in war tells themselves and/or their people that they were attacked; never that they were the aggressor

Lincoln was a genious to keep troops in Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor and get the South shoot first.

[Bigtiti]

1812 war?
and which civil war??

[Dylan the Canadian]

@Frontovik:

1812 war?
and which civil war??

You should know about the War of 1812
The US one.

[calvinhobbesliker]

@Dylan:

@Frontovik:

1812 war?
and which civil war??

You should know about the War of 1812
The US one.

Why should he know? He may not be from the US, UK, or Canada

[balungaloaf]

i like the WWI eastern fronts, especially hungary vs russia

the undermentioned southern fronts in the balkans and italy are great to learn about too.  the turkish front with the uk attempted invasion.  The arab jihad movement.  Hell, the fighting in africa is great to learn about along with jockeying done in the far east.

another poster mentioned the mind numbing crap about the western front, and thats true.

[Dylan the Canadian]

@ABWorsham:

I enjoy studying about the Punic Wars, I consider those three wars as the first World Wars.

Was that

Persia vs Greeks
or
Greeks vs Romans

and their allies of coarse.

[ABWorsham4]

@Dylan:

@ABWorsham:

I enjoy studying about the Punic Wars, I consider those three wars as the first World Wars.

Was that

Persia vs Greeks
or
Greeks vs Romans

and their allies of coarse.

Rome and Carthage

[allboxcars]

@calvinhobbesliker:

@Dylan:

You should know about the War of 1812

Why should he know? He may not be from the US, UK, or Canada

Well see that’s what happens when you don’t come up with a better name for your war.
War of 1812…. sheesh. LAME.  :|
We should run a poll to come up with a better name… but I’d be afraid of what suggestions we’d see.
:-o

Of course speaking of lousy war names…

@ABWorsham:

@Dylan:

@ABWorsham:

I enjoy studying about the Punic Wars, I consider those three wars as the first World Wars.

Was that

Persia vs Greeks
or
Greeks vs Romans

Rome and Carthage

OK I imagine Dylan has to be scratching his head wondering how this got to be Punic?
(And yes I know the answer)
It’s like a history teacher named this just to make it more difficult!

#660

[calvinhobbesliker]

Dont the Brits have a different name? They have them for other wars:
French and Indian War-Seven Years’ War
American Revolution-The American War for Independence
World War 1-The First World War/Great War/the archaic and now shown to be an epic fail “War to End All Wars.”
World War 2-The Second World War

[Clyde85]

Boy talk about a tough choice!
I think the Chinese civil war, begining with the begining of warlordism in 1917 all the way through the 20’s, second world war and Korea is the most intresting to me.

[allboxcars]

@calvinhobbesliker:

Dont the Brits have a different name?

War of the Annoying Colonials?

OK seriously I don’t think they do.

#664

[ABWorsham4]

The term Punic comes from the Latin word Punicus (or Poenicus), meaning “Carthaginian”, with reference to the Carthaginians’ Phoenician ancestry.

[allboxcars]

@ABWorsham:

The term Punic comes from the Latin word Punicus (or Poenicus), meaning “Carthaginian”, with reference to the Carthaginians’ Phoenician ancestry.

Well yes, yes but when you studied it in high school surely some of your classmates didn’t find it so easy to connect the dots, hmmm?

#675

[Dylan the Canadian]

@calvinhobbesliker:

@Dylan:

@Frontovik:

1812 war?
and which civil war??

You should know about the War of 1812
The US one.

Why should he know? He may not be from the US, UK, or Canada

I thought that was like a war you know, like Napoleonic Wars, World war I and stuff. oh well

[calvinhobbesliker]

@allboxcars:

@ABWorsham:

The term Punic comes from the Latin word Punicus (or Poenicus), meaning “Carthaginian”, with reference to the Carthaginians’ Phoenician ancestry.

Well yes, yes but when you studied it in high school surely some of your classmates didn’t find it so easy to connect the dots, hmmm?

#675

I think he copied that from wikipedia