WWI and the Lessons for Today
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100 years ago World War I began. What lessons have we learned since then? How had the lead-up to the Great War affected our government's policies, and how has the outcome affected how we plan and budget for future conflicts? American leadership in the world today is seen as waning, and isolationistic ideologies are growing. We should not forget that a strong U.S. presence abroad ensures safety and prosperity for all. What are the lessons from WWI for U.S. military and political leaders? Join us as we examine how these important lessons can inform today's American foreign policy and military engagement around the world.
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So many wrong facts...
15:03 "Take 50 ... 60% of france..." --> Germany only wanted the mining region of Longwy-Briey, are there sources for his statement?
15:13 "French did not invade Germany..." --> Germany actually went over belgium (to invade france), but france invaded germany first. The french had their plan XVII started at august 14th, a week before the first german soldier set foot on french terrain. Every party in ww1 had offensive plans ... and all failed by end of 1914.
24:50 "France lost more man than any of the allies" --> Wikipedia: Russia 1.7...2.25 mio, France 1.35...1.4 mio, Britain 0.75...0.89 mio.
Still watching... maybe more to come. But i got to say, for a historian this is just very poor knowledge... -
9:15 Cut to the chase
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Full of shit
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Wow. Who is this, and what have they done with Victor Davis Hanson? he noted at the beginning that he had been in a severe accident, and had numerous stitches and a broken nose -- therefore, I put this bizarre display down the effect of heavy narcotics.....Wrong, on nearly every single point, and contradictory to all of his previous work. Stunned and appalled.
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Fascinating talk.
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a thoughtful and intelligent speech. well worth the time it took to listen. thank you for posting. I always appreciate actual learning of things of that are of actual importance.
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His sole "lesson" from WWI is: be a bully, don't show weakness, then your adversaries will back down. It's the Neocon broken record all over again that any adversary is a new Hitler and anyone who is against war is another Chamberlain who is perpetrating Appeasement.
Well, Mr. Hanson, that's exactly what got everybody into WWI in the first place - the belief that you can just threaten your adversary into backing down by escalating.
And, I have to say, his primitive Germanophobia is pretty distasteful. He says the Allies should have conquered germany and occupied it at the end of WWI to "make it democrat". Well, Mr. Hanson, Germany had a parliamentary system when the WWI started and it didn't even have a monarch any more when it ended, it was a republic. Maybe it would have helped not to starve this republic, ruin it and humiliate it. How about that solution? I know it sounds so much less sexy to you than invading a country, occupying it and carving it up. Because that has worked so brilliantly for the Neocons, right? This man hasn't learned much from WWI and the lessons he took from it are exactly wrong. -
VDH starts talking at 9:16
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This professor is one of the all too few professors to delineate the effects of the evil foreign policy of the Soviet Union on WWII.
The quote of Churchill's rejoinder to Stalin, when Stalin was crying about the lack of a major second front was masterful: "When Hitler was bombing London during the Battle of Britain, Hitler's planes were being supplied with Soviet oil!"
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Wonderful presentation but I wish Dr. Hanson would learn to control his arms. He hit the mike nearly a dozen times.
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If both sides of any war had realistic knowledge of both sides capabilities, either weaker one would capitulate immediately, or equally-strong would make peace to avoid bloody stalemate... Miscalculations in enemy intentions and/or power led to both Korea (North thought US would not defend South) and Vietnam (Dominoes that did not fall).
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Somebody else below wrote, "superb" about this and yet I am struggling to find what it is superb about it.
Familiar: yes. Pedestrian: very. Comfy: Certainly. All-in-all, rather reassuring and just like my teddy. But superb?
My teddy is just my teddy: Teddy is squishy and warm and smells right and, above all, is reassuring. I am at home with my teddy. My teddy reminds me of simple and familiar times.
When Teddy and I were told a bedtime story, or indeed any story, we never asked, 'is this a story that could have gone differently?' We just got into the story and asked questions about the story itself. When Thomas got stuck on the hill, we asked, 'is "Gordon the Big Engine" going to get there in time?'
We never asked any of the other questions. It hadn't been suggested that we could, and the narrative never suggested that we should.
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Superb.
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Hanson is a prime example of the neocons' Germanophobia.
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I can't help but think that last supper must have been a bit tense, with Jesus relating the bread to his broken skin and the wine to his own blood.
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Victor Davis Hanson is one of the most brilliant thinkers in the entire country.
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He starts at 9:14
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I disagree that Germany was 100% responsible for either war. It's difficult to even put a start date on WW2 and everyone rushed into war in 1914, mostly because of alliances.
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An hour well spent. Thank you, Dr. Hanson.
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@30:12...That was not the first time Germany engaged Britain in WWII. Blitzkrieg worked very well against the BEF in 1940- resulting in its withdrawal at Dunkirk.
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