your favourite war

Tugboats

Considering the day thats in it what's your favourite war? Although theres cool movies made about Vietnam its really before my time so I have to go for Iraq with George W. I remember staying up all night watching shock and awe on Sky News:cool:


http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=neDgVb9YHcA

Quazzie

The war of the buttons without a doubt.

Turtyturd

Civil War....Ironman V Captain America.

Jimoslimos

This one

wazky

The Cola War

kowloon

The Pig war, serious business.

Captain Chaos

Tug of

rednik

This,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h__zgVz9fN4

Fukuoka Eagle

WWII: When we rid the world of Nazism. The Falkands: When we rid the Falklands of the Argies. The Napoleonic Wars: When we rid Europe of the French.

spankysue

This War

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DmYLrxR0Y8

stefan idiot jones

.......inside my head.

Femme_Fatale

The Cold War! Loads of interesting sh1t emerged from that particular tiff.

Duff

The war with the greys at Dulce Base.

Ghost Train

the addictive Dicewars
http://www.gamedesign.jp/flash/dice/dice.html

biko

As a movie war - Vietnam.

Wacker The Attacker

Drug Wars

Superb evenings entertainment

Sir Humphrey Appleby

Fukuoka Eagle wrote: »

WWII: When we rid the world of Nazism. The Falkands: When we rid the Falklands of the Argies. The Napoleonic Wars: When we rid Europe of the French.

Whose the "we" you speak of, The USSR and the USA defeated Hitler, and the Russians and their winter did for Napoleon.

DazMarz

I have always been personally fascinated with World War II, and the periods that directly proceeded and succeeded it. It was arguably the last war fought between a "good" side and a "evil" side. Despite the atrocities committed by both the Axis and Allied sides, there is no doubt to which side was perceived as good and which was seen evil.

The enormous sacrifice during World War II made by all sides, in human and material terms, was breathtaking. Tens of millions of people perished, entire cities were reduced to rubble, the world was hardened, scarred and stunned by the savagery of this period. No other war in recorded history claimed so many lives or inflicted so much damage.

The heroism of all nations who fought against German Nazism, Italian Fascism and Japanese Imperialism cannot be underestimated, but it is the Soviet Union that arguably deserves the most praise, admiration and respect. No other nation who fought in that war suffered as the Soviets did. Estimates of the number of Soviet civilians and soldiers killed range into the tens of millions. No other nation did more to defeat the Nazis. The Soviet Union suffered estimated losses of anywhere between 20,000,000 to 35,000,000 dead; half of the total casualties of the war.

The British and the Americans also performed heroically, the British arguably having their finest hour during the Battle Of Britain, where the RAF held the rampaging Nazi military at bay and prevented the launch of Operation: Sealion, the planned Nazi invasion of Great Britain. As Winston Churchill said of the RAF: "Never in the field of human conflict, has so much been owed by so many, to so few". The Americans almost single-handedly brought the Japanese to their knees in the Pacific and provided crucial support to the North African campaign.

World War II was seen as the first truly "Total War", in which entire populations, civilian and military alike, were mobilised and utilised in the war effort. Most prominent were the Soviet and German territories, where all people were mobilised and fought for their countries. To lesser extents, this also occurred in Britain, Japan and the United States.

The sheer inhumanity and savagery of the Second World War will forever be a stain upon the history of humanity. While I have mentioned that the stereotypical view of the war was the "good" Allies against the "evil" Axis, atrocities against civilians and prisoners of war were committed by both sides. No side could truly claim to be totally good, but this is the way of warfare. The lesser evil triumphed.

World War II also shaped the era that followed it like no other war in history; for more than 40 years following 1945, the world was held in the grip of the Cold War and the political and ideological landscape of the globe was changed forever by the events of the war. This war also gave us technologies such as jet aircraft, RADAR, synthetic fuels, nylon, synthetic rubber and so on. It also more infamously provided nuclear weapons, assault rifles and other more detrimental innovations.

World War II also had within it The Holocaust. One of the greatest genocides in the history of humanity. An estimated 10,000,000 people died in Nazi death and concentration camps. 6,000,000 of them were Jews. The remaining victims were gypsies, homosexuals, Poles, Russians, Slavs, political undesirables, mentally and/or physically disabled, Jehovah's Witnesses, Freemasons and any other people that the Nazis declared "undesirable" and that they did not want in their thousand-year Reich.

World War II remains one of the most fascinating and simply horrendous periods of human history. A period of history that should never be forgotten.

vicwatson

The War of the Worlds is a great record

Femme_Fatale

Sir Humphrey Appleby wrote: »

Whose the "we" you speak of, The USSR and the USA defeated Hitler, and the Russians and their winter did for Napoleon.

They're a newly registered sh1t-stirrer - ignore!

o1s1n

Tugboats wrote: »

Considering the day thats in it what's your favourite war? Although theres cool movies made about Vietnam its really before my time so I have to go for Iraq with George W. I remember staying up all night watching shock and awe on Sky News:cool:


http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=neDgVb9YHcA

It's mad how dated sky news looks in that video!

Muise...

The Cod Wars.

mikemac1

When Brian Boru was King and ruled from Cashel

The traitorous Dubs had fallen in with the Vikings.

And then they killed our hero :mad:

BillyMitchel

Storage Wars


I hate war - war is bad mmmkayyyy

Local-womanizer

The Korean War for me, and it's still on going technically. A ceasefire between the 2 countries was never declared.

smurgen

The battle of Stalingrad! Probably the ultimate proper army against army war that was ever fought. The Soviets against Nazi,italien,Hungarian and croatian forces.the attacking armies took no mercy on the civilians and murdered them mercilessly.the soviets took heavy losses and were literally fighting for survival.eventually they assembled one the of largest army's ever used in one battle and surrounded the invaders and righty slaughter the Nazi lead invaders.the stories that came from that Stalingrad during the siege are some of the most disturbing I've heard and the Russians were forced to literally eat everything from pets to the dead to survive. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad

stefan idiot jones

smurgen wrote: »

The battle of Stalingrad! Probably the ultimate proper army against army war that was ever fought. The Soviets against Nazi,italien,Hungarian and croatian forces.the attacking armies took no mercy on the civilians and murdered them mercilessly.the soviets took heavy losses and were literally fighting for survival.eventually they assembled one the of largest army's ever used in one battle and surrounded the invaders and righty slaughter the Nazi lead invaders.the stories that came from that Stalingrad during the siege are some of the most disturbing I've heard and the Russians were forced to literally eat everything from pets to the dead to survive. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad

Anthony Beevor's book on Stalingrad is one of the greatest war books I've read. That and Berlin are a must for readers.

Xeyn

Return of the Jedi was probably the best.

My favourite war was more a battle: The Battle of Isandlawana. British with rifles and canons got their asses handed to them by guys with leather shields and spears.

Badly Drunk Boy

The Second Punic War.

darragh16

Paraguay -v- Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay.

They got absolutely pumped by the trio and lost 60% of its pre war population. Took them decades to recover from it

pablomakaveli

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

The Second Punic War.

Hannibal marching an army over the Alps and proceeding to kick Roman ass for a few years. I love the Punic Wars. It decided the fate of Europe. One can only imagine how different things could have been if Carthage came out on top.

fl4pj4ck

Warcraft

Gatling

Operation Desert Storm , aka Gulf War 1
Mainly due to the massive build up and TV coverage and collected the official panini sticker book, got the day off school after the air strikes began due to been glued to sky news from midnight till 8am

Karl Stein

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

The Cold War! Loads of interesting sh1t emerged from that particular tiff.

You should watch 'The Power Principle' by Metanoia Films. Kinda smashes the whole Tom Clancy take on good versus evil.

LordSutch

What a day to be having a favourite war

Muise...

LordSutch wrote: »

What a day to be having a favourite war

it's a fine day for it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiOJ07nyfM4

wretcheddomain

Wardrobe

Jorah

Sir Humphrey Appleby wrote: »

Whose the "we" you speak of, The USSR and the USA defeated Hitler, and the Russians and their winter did for Napoleon.

Every time I log on this pathetic anti-British attitude remains. Grow up ffs.

Muise...

Jorah wrote: »

Every time I log on this pathetic anti-British attitude remains. Grow up ffs.

it's hardly anti-British to acknowledge Ireland's neutral stance in WWII, fffs.

Sir Humphrey Appleby

Jorah wrote: »

Every time I log on this pathetic anti-British attitude remains. Grow up ffs.

Historical facts , if you don't like them, tough!:P

shanered

War on terror!

The Diabolical Monocle

Inventive Vietnamese were inventive.

Hiding tanks in the ground - genius.

Wicklowrider

Sir Humphrey Appleby wrote: »

Whose the "we" you speak of, The USSR and the USA defeated Hitler, and the Russians and their winter did for Napoleon.

Really?

I better return the dozen or so medals my grandfather and uncles earned between them in North Africa and Europe and in the skies over Germany. If my grandmother was still alive I am sure she would take great comfort from your wisdom and realise her son didn't really die in the week of his 21st birthday and her husband did not die of wounds sustained fighting the Afrika corps.

There is a council estate in my town. I could walk around it with you and point out the houses from which men left to fight. I could introduce you to the neighbour of my Grandfather whose father enlisted with my Grandfather. Not sure who fared worst - my Grandfather whose 25 lb er took a direct hit from a German 88 or his friend who lived to fight through Tunisia and then landed at Salerno and fought his way to Berlin but returned home a madman. And there are communities all over this country like it.

TLDR - you sir, are full of crapola.

Muise...

Wicklowrider wrote: »

Really?

I better return the dozen or so medals my grandfather and uncles earned between them in North Africa and Europe and in the skies over Germany. If my grandmother was still alive I am sure she would take great comfort from your wisdom and realise her son didn't really die in the week of his 21st birthday and her husband did not die of wounds sustained fighting the Afrika corps.

There is a council estate in my town. I could walk around it with you and point out the houses from which men left to fight. I could introduce you to the neighbour of my Grandfather whose father enlisted with my Grandfather. Not sure who fared worst - my Grandfather whose 25 lb er took a direct hit from a German 88 or his friend who lived to fight through Tunisia and then landed at Salerno and fought his way to Berlin but returned home a madman. And there are communities all over this country like it.

TLDR - you sir, are full of crapola.

I don't doubt your examples, but they do not amount to "we".

[-0-]

Our War of Independence, which very nearly worked.

Jorah

Muise... wrote: »

it's hardly anti-British to acknowledge Ireland's neutral stance in WWII, fffs.

That was an obvious shot ignoring the UK's participation in WW2, ffs.

The Diabolical Monocle

You could do the same in Russia or the US, just on a greater scale.


(And in China on a huge scale .... but thats kind of un-related to the whole nazi part)


I think what some of the above comments are getting at is this:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WorldWarII-MilitaryDeaths-Allies-Piechart.png

Muise...

Jorah wrote: »

That was an obvious shot ignoring the UK's participation in WW2, ffs.

maybe - it wasn't my post. The UK did an outstanding job in WWII- that is undeniable, and "we" were tacitly on their side, but it would be inaccurate to conflate the two countries and that is what I meant in my reply.

Wicklowrider

Muise... wrote: »

I don't doubt your examples, but they do not amount to "we".

It is most definitely "We" when they are your blood.

losthorizon

Gatling wrote: »

Operation Desert Storm , aka Gulf War 1
Mainly due to the massive build up and TV coverage and collected the official panini sticker book, got the day off school after the air strikes began due to been glued to sky news from midnight till 8am

The time proper impartial war reporting ended with reporters being embeded with one army. Now we dont even get any reporting of any facts at all take Syria for instance.

Anyway war is terrible and is just affects the weak and vulnerable the most. Its nothing to celebrate schoolkids.

http://www.euronews.com/2013/11/06/for-children-at-war-friendly-space-for-kids-at-syrian-refugee-camp/

Muise...

Wicklowrider wrote: »

It is most definitely "We" when they are your blood.

to you and yours then, not AH/boards/.ie