People have to learn that politics is usually a choice between better and worse, not good and evil. (View Post)

Most were due to disease. This was not directly battle-related, but very much so, indirectly. Cholera and dysentry followed the soldiers wherever they went; yellow fever and malaria took a massive to… (View Post)

British casualties between 1793-1815 were enormous, numerically similar to those in WWI, albeit over a much longer time period, but at the same time, coming out of a much smaller population. The War … (View Post)

Germany got much less out of the occupied territories in WWII than it expected to. When you plunder, you can only do it once. A good example is the French aircraft industry. In 1939 it was the world&… (View Post)

By the Spring of 1941, a lot of Germany's economic planners were growing very pessimistic that Germany could even continue fighting, beyond the end of 1942. They thought that Ukraine could make … (View Post)