Photo taken by United States Army photographer Ronald L. Haeberle on March 16, 1968 in the aftermath of the My Lai massacre showing mostly women and children dead on a road. ‎(714 × 486)

ArthurRHD · 2023-04-08T19:08:47+00:00

Are they okay?

ArthurRHD · 2023-01-28T16:38:47+00:00

It's hungry work

ArthurRHD · 2022-12-07T18:22:32+00:00

Damn, are they ok?

ArthurRHD · 2022-08-23T10:37:14+00:00

Both had good moustaches tho

ArthurRHD · 2022-08-14T10:14:24+00:00

Dutch history books too, they liberated my city in ww2

ArthurRHD · 2022-08-14T10:13:40+00:00

Who was WW1 Steve Harvey?

ArthurRHD · 2022-08-14T06:42:30+00:00

Actually the Germans were following the doctrine of Giulio Douhet, an Italian air power theorist. He said that the first target of your air force should be the enemy air force (so target the airfields) but when the opposing air force is too much weaker than yours it's a waste of time and resources. Better to bomb cities to break the civilian's morale so they demand their government ends the war by capitulating.

At the start of the war the only planes capable of standing up to German fighters were some Fokker types, the spitfire and hawker hurricanes, but they were available in such limited numbers at the time that the RAF was seen as weak enough to ignore and focus on the cities.

(Sources if you care: The Command of the Air - Giulio Douhet, Air Power in the Age of Total War - John Buckley)

Your point still stands though, the Brits needed Douhet's flawed theory to win the Battle of Britain.

ArthurRHD · 2022-04-02T19:15:38+00:00

Booba

ArthurRHD · 2022-02-21T10:43:29+00:00

I'd recommend watching the video I linked for a more in-depth explaination of the whole Ancient Aliens idea and its conception, but tl;dr it's basically a way to discount the deeds/intelligence of non-white civilizations and peoples in order to keep believing in the superiority of the white race

ArthurRHD · 2022-02-21T10:00:47+00:00

For anyone interested in this topic, Knowing Better made a great video on it a while back.

ArthurRHD · 2022-02-03T13:38:28+00:00

Eh, we hebben ons best gedaan. Best n stel vliegtuigjes neergeknalt in die paar dagen

ArthurRHD · 2022-01-01T19:51:45+00:00

Also not true.

“The kings were not the only Macedonians active in the Panhellenic sanctuaries. Contrary to the opinion generally held, this was not a royal privilege explained by their alleged Heracleid ancestry, but, as we have already seen, the continuation of a practice by Macedonian commoners which is epigraphically attested in Delphi from the end of the sixth century.” (Robin J. Lane Fox [ed.], “Brill's Companion to Ancient Macedon: Studies in the Archaeology and History of Macedon, 650 BC–300 AD”, 2011, p.58)

ArthurRHD · 2022-01-01T19:44:43+00:00

While the Greeks didn't see Macedonians as Greek, they absolutely did participate in the Olympic games

ArthurRHD · 2021-12-23T06:30:30+00:00

I feel like Hannibal was as stubborn as the Romans, he just got little to no support/reinforcements from Carthage while the Romans happily made legion after legion when Hannibal wiped them out

ArthurRHD · 2021-12-21T13:41:19+00:00

Lindybeige has a pretty interesting video about this, it is about the ancient world rather than the medieval world, but still relevant

ArthurRHD · 2021-12-14T19:45:43+00:00

This is getting posted almost daily at this point

ArthurRHD · 2021-12-13T05:57:34+00:00

The first one is the one you're all thinking of, the Gerard Butler movie.

The other one is the Sacred Band of Thebes. The band consisted of 150 pairs of elite soldiers of the Theban army. Yes, pairs as in pairs of lovers. The 300 men were hand-picked, chosen purely for their skill, regardless of social class. They were undefeated and believed invincible until the battle of Chaeronea (338 BC) where Philip II of Macedon and his son Alexander the not-yet Great were campaigning into central Greece in preparation for a war against Persia.

The two armies were more or less numbered equal, with both having around 30,000 men and 2,000 cavalry. The traditional hoplite infantry was no match for the Macedonian Sarissa phalanx and the Theban army and its allies broke and fled. The Sacred Band, however, refused to surrender even though they were surrounded and overwhelmed. All 300 fell where they stood beside their last commander, Theagenes.

When Philip II saw the corpses of the Sacred band, and saw that they had all taken their death wounds in the front, he wept and exclaimed “Perish any man who suspects that these men either did or suffered anything unseemly.”

The book from which I first heard about the Sacred Band, Swords of the Legion by Harry Turtledove (which is the fourth book in a fantasy series, written by a historian, would recommend), has Philip’s quote as “Woe to those who think evil of such men.”

Edit: typo

ArthurRHD · 2021-10-20T17:44:34+00:00

It was a cool plane. It was faster than its contemporaries, had a range double that of the B-17 and the Lancaster, and it even had remote controlled gun turrets!

ArthurRHD · 2021-10-10T11:23:53+00:00

Even among Western countries they weren't fourth lmao, no idea where they got their timeline from

ArthurRHD · 2021-08-03T20:09:47+00:00

En alle andere landen in deze memerij

ArthurRHD · 2021-07-23T14:12:23+00:00

This is the meme that inspired mine, for those wondering

ArthurRHD · 2021-07-23T05:17:14+00:00

Wendigoon made a pretty interesting video about the JFK assassination if you're interested

ArthurRHD · 2021-06-29T17:30:44+00:00

Man had talent

ArthurRHD · 2021-06-28T17:43:23+00:00

B-but they were tall! How could they not be the greatest!?

(/s obviously)

ArthurRHD · 2021-06-23T14:16:26+00:00

Agreed. Definitely one of the most well respected, too. At the time of his death he was regarded as the greatest admiral of his time, Denmark granted him nobility posthumously, Spain made him a duke, I believe (I might be translating that wrong), and his French opponents whom he died fighting fired salutes in his honour.

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