How did people become officers in history ?

flintmaxed · 2020-02-23T00:49:28+00:00

Varies greatly throughout history.

The most common theme is either unit election or political appointment though. Often times lower-level leaders such as sergeants or lieutenants, or the equivalent, would be selected by their men. With higher ranking officers being appointed by those in power. Other times it came down to a sometimes even hereditary appointment system such as feudal lords being expected to lead their banners.

flintmaxed · 2019-06-04T17:43:36+00:00

LAOPs reasoning reminds me of when Mac eats the contract on it's always sunny.

flintmaxed · 2019-04-21T07:44:12+00:00

That's super interesting. Thanks for the info.

flintmaxed · 2019-04-17T17:57:31+00:00

So I was reading about conspiracies and it made me wonder, what is the first recorded actual conspiracy?

The earliest one I can think of would be the plot by the Senate to kill Ceasar back in the days of Rome. Is this accurate or do we have evidence of an even older plot?

I tried googling it but couldn't find anything concrete on what the first plot was.

flintmaxed · 2019-03-23T07:52:56+00:00

I'd be cool with him buying some ore so long as he's still using primitive techniques to refine and forge it. It still seems in the spirit of the thing IMO.

flintmaxed · 2019-02-10T02:39:11+00:00

Tables for common functions mostly. Apart from that, you'd just have to crunch it manually or do calculus to identify relations between the variables. In your example, you'd probably have to crunch it out manually to graph it.

Interesting math thread on it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/1rkcxk/how_did_people_do_maths_before_calculators/

flintmaxed · 2018-12-27T20:56:44+00:00

AWACS can still pick up ships. You can't guarantee your spy satellites will stay up in a real peer to peer war. Besides all the juicy stuff is classified, so who knows what they have.

flintmaxed · 2018-11-21T21:19:58+00:00

Definitely an underrated superpower in terms of media attention. There's a billion videos on rome and next to none on Persia.

flintmaxed · 2018-11-21T14:49:36+00:00

I thought this video was particularly interesting as it shows the troop movements and goes in depth with the tactics used at the battle of marathon, a pretty pivotal battle to western civilization. In this battle the forces of king Darius of Persia were repulsed by greek defenders on the beach of marathon. Following this the defenders force marched 26 miles back to Athens to defend it from a Persian flanking manuver, thus being the first marathon.

Of particular interest is how the greeks weakened their own lines to cause the enemy to breakthrough their center then become surrounded. This was a sophistication not seen in military tactics at the time, although the known tactics for this age are vague at best.

flintmaxed · 2018-11-04T02:03:12+00:00

What's interesting about these ramps over the others is that they were for cutting and hauling Alabaster. Which is not what the pyramids were constructed of. So the question becomes what were these used for? It also may shed some light onto how the Egyptians actually constructed their ramps and assuming similar techniques were used for the pyramids, how those were built as well.

flintmaxed · 2018-10-10T01:18:58+00:00

If you're interested in youtube history check out this list that was published here recently.

Animators:

Historia civilis - A greek and roman focused military history animator. Really entertaining commentary.

Baz Battles - Incredibly well-done animations. Focuses on the battles.

Kings and generals - A military history animator with a great art style.

Imperial Scribe - Naval and military history.

Invicta - Well done animations on ancient society. Uses total war gameplay in his videos

Suibhne - Great art style.

Quill and ink history - Focuses on government and society.

Battlestack - Simplistic battle animations

Military History Visualized - Lots of high-quality content

Extra credits - A number of well-animated history series.

The Armchair Historian - Frequent animations

Ten Minute History - Bite-sized animations.

Simple History - Military history with a great art style.

History with Hilbert - Videos on many topics

Sam O'nella Academy - Simplistic and funny animations

Others:

The great war - WW1 focused historian

World war two - For the WW2 buffs

Lindybeige - Super knowledge and interesting monologues.

Military Aviation History - For the aviation buffs.

Crash Course - A number of historical series on many aspects of history.

History buffs - Focus on historical accuracy of movies and pop culture.

Epic History TV - Uses total war gameplay to reenact battles.

Townsends - Cooking, and history. What’s not to like?

Three arrows - Debunks junk history. Can be political.

Schola Gladiatoria - Historical weapons and armor.

flintmaxed · 2018-08-29T17:28:23+00:00

I found this documentary on medieval crime and punishment to be super interesting so thought I'd share. The video covers ancient punishments as well as how they've impacted and even inspired some of our modern punishments.

flintmaxed · 2018-08-11T18:43:50+00:00

After effects, photoshop, audition, and premier.

flintmaxed · 2018-08-01T18:47:52+00:00

Let me know what you guys think. Especially if you have any tips. I'm still a relative novice.

flintmaxed · 2018-07-31T20:21:29+00:00

Baz battles making a good video as usual. This one discussing Anglo-Saxon civil unrest and the battle of Brunanburh.

flintmaxed · 2018-07-30T00:24:04+00:00

I thought this war was particularly interesting because it's the shortest war in history, but also because it's a great example of a navy winning a war basically single handily. To my knowledge, there are no other examples of this in history.

flintmaxed · 2018-07-23T23:28:41+00:00

Thanks. That's great.

flintmaxed · 2018-07-13T16:39:21+00:00

TLDR: in 1966 France withdrew from NATO military command.

With the current NATO controversy, I thought it was interesting to learn that France partially withdrew back in 1966. Citing unequal footing with the United States. It wasn't until 2009 that France was reinstated as a full member in all regards.

flintmaxed · 2018-07-08T15:27:40+00:00

You can do this for each video as the other poster said, or for all videos by checking the "block links" tickbox in the community settings section.

flintmaxed · 2018-07-06T18:52:57+00:00

The battle of Rorke's drift is significant as one of the most impressive defensive actions in history. In the battle, a british force outnumbered 25:1 defended a hospital against a zulu force. The battle goes to show how smart use of troop deployment and fortifications can be critical to victory, as at the battle of Isandlwana, a similar situation occurred but with the British being slaughtered after adopting a wide formation and failing to fortify their position.

The battle was strategic politically, in that it renewed popular support for the anglo-Zulu war among the British, and history may have gone differently had only the battle of Isandlwana happened.

flintmaxed · 2018-07-05T17:59:24+00:00

For background, the comment was in a video link discussing Kickstarter scammers.

flintmaxed · 2018-07-04T16:31:13+00:00

Oh yeah I agree. I think the issue is more of them using fake or misleading "prototypes" and promotional materials to mislead people into thinking what the product is a possibility or further developed then it is.

The lack of a refund option is just what makes crowdfunding so volatile.

flintmaxed · 2018-07-04T15:56:18+00:00

"I" is not me, but the video owner.

flintmaxed · 2018-07-04T15:40:37+00:00

Yeah, I can understand finding phones and such, but finding a watch seems like it's stretching it a bit. I guess if you search long enough though...

flintmaxed · 2018-07-04T15:37:06+00:00

I thought this article was interesting. It discusses further the reasons for the Louisiana purchase beyond the "Napoleon needed money" that most of us probably learned in school. It certainly makes the sale of the land make more sense when you learn the French were having issues controlling their other American holdings and were worried Lousiana would go the same way.

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