Thermopylae and WW1 are my favorite wars in history
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what is you guy's

North African campaign during WW2 is pretty interesting to me.

WW1 = boring trenchwar.

Modern warfare just isn't the same. Suicide bombers, road mines, nerve agents and all that stuff just isn't right if you ask me. WW2 had it right, except for the nukes and Holocaust obviously.

WWII and the Persian Gulf

Really all the ones we (America :celebration: ) have won.

I've always found the politics of the French Revolutionary Wars to be quite interesting.

As for favourites - I like the names of the 'War of Roses' and 'War of Jenkins' Ear'.

"Favourite war"?

"WW2 had it right except for..."?

What the hell is wrong with you people, seriously? Are you seriously discussing your favourite mass death-spreading and rating them based on your preferred means of death-spreading?

I don't know, that's pretty sick in my book. :shrug:

I thought the Punic wars (Carthage vs Rome) were cool. Man, Hannibal's elephants must have been frigging scary to the Romans.

Yes, because the purpose of war is that it should be exciting.


There's a right way to kill people?

Nothing wrong with Military History. Granted, posts so far in this thread have been rather tactless....

Anywho, WW II was truly the most epic of wars, so naturally it is the most interesting to study. Vietnam is pretty interesting too, I'm currently reading "A Rumor of War" and it just shows that Vietnam was pure horror and brutality and whatever other adjectives that can be used to describe Hell.

I agree. Granted, there are certain wars in which I have a great interest in studying, but I can't say I favor war in any way.

:blink: ...Well i did just say "i've seen everything", when will i learn? :slap:

War is a human condition. Sure, you can cynically say that war is nothing but the byproduct/failure of international relations but when it comes down to it, it is one country imposing its will upon another. People have been doing that since the dawn of time. As communication became more developed, the scale and scope of these impositions extended beyond your family, your tribe and even your country. War is terrible. The innocent lives lost in the conflict is terrible. But. goddammit, we're bloody good at it. Look at the advances war as brought humanity. The never ending desire to go further, faster, higher has led to innovations beyond our ancestors' wildest dreams. We have the ability to wipe out the human race from the face of the earth. This is fantastic - what animal do you know has the ability to self-immolate its biosphere at the whims of abstract ideologies? No one. We are the top of the food chain because he clawed our way up from the slime and mud, we shoved sharpened stakes into the earth, dug killing pits, shot arrows, hacked and slashed our swords, stabbed with our bayonets and thundered into the 21st century riding on the power of our military industrial complex. This is all very sad, you would think, but it is not. For once in our lifetime, we have the resources at hand for everyone to look into the past. We have a history and the luxury of time for anyone, from 15 year old video game enthusiasts to the smartest minds in our institutions to look into the past, into ourselves to study where we went wrong. Our desire to go further, faster higher gives us the drive to look back and say, "Surely, there is a better way!" And I will say, "There is. And don't call me Shirley!". A fascination with history begins at the most basic level - video games, entertainment and media. These are the seeds that will enable our next generation to BE better than previous ones. You say that these people are sick. I say they are on the path of progress. Is it immature? Yes. But all growth requires time. These first few stones will be like the foundations of Rome. It will expand, it will be moved, some will be shaken but it will grow and grow until new ideas, new thoughts come through. It all starts somewhere. So instead of being such a negative Nancy, why not encourage this curiosity, foster this inquisitiveness by asking questions. Why do you like WW2 so much, what is it draws you to conflict, how do you think this affects our lives today and so forth.

I used to think like you. Humans can be better. And we can. But we also need stimulation in order to innovate. It is all good and well to say we should live in peace forever and ever - but humans are capable of individual thought, we are not hive or pack animals that will just blindly follow in the wake of thousands of years of evolution. We buck the trend, we struggle, we fight and we die. Instead, I ask you to not look inside yourself, see this animalistic nature, this beast that is rearing to get out. Embrace who you are, embrace humanity for what it really is. You can't claim to have loved unless you love someone as a whole. Humanity is not there to pick or choose. We are both the vicious mammal that will murder, kill and steal as well as the loving nurturing that provides, protects and guides.

So, after all that, I have just one question: Do you love humanity?

WWII was definitely epic it was bad cause of the Holocaust and the overall death toll, but is still very interesting.

Vietnam...we could of won. :sadvaultboy:

I dont know what you were expecting when you clicked on a thread called "Favorite War" :rolleyes: I think what the OP means is simply what war do you find most interesting.

I find WW1 interesting too, all the creepy war tech they used back then like all the gas weapons and the 1st tanks are cool to learn about. I also find any ancient or medieval wars interesting because it was a totally different kind of warfare back then.

You forgot to mention that the desire to kill one's own species is something inherent in many beasts, besides just us evil humans. Regardless, good post electric.

I find WWI and II quite fascinating.

There were huge leaps and bounds in technology and weapons.

I'm also a large fan of nukes and flamethrowers.

"The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done." - George Carlin.

None.

Wars are interesting from a tactical point of view, but having a 'favorite' is sick, I study wars from the social perspective, and the historical significance in tactics etc. but I don't have a 'favorite', WW2 had the most significance as it marked the end of 'ground' warfare and the beginning of missile and bombing warfare, the Trojan war was interesting too (if it was real of course)

I hope that everyone's 'Favorite' war comes from the significance in history, both tactical and social, not because they actually want another world war to happen

I left out that part, thought it was pretty obvious. War is horrible, yet it can be interesting. My point was that some wars were at least fought a little better than others, even though war is always gruesome. And since you're on this forum, you can't even pretend you don't play war games, so you don't really have the right to lecture me.

The purpose of war isn't that it should be exiting, but that makes it more interesting. And by right I meant that they fought 'fair', if you can call it that, as in close and personal, with equal weapons. War isn't like that anymore, and it never will be.

Meh, I knew I shouldn't have replied to this thread. I saw the moral debate and following [censored]storm coming.

What a poor choice of words. What is next? What is your favorite way of mass people dieing, or being murdered? Also to say, this war was boring because of what ever. My god, 100 000s of people die, and it's boring? Some people just have no class at all, or really really thoughtless.

I wonder if the poster ment what you find the most interesting historically.

I find the machinery used, like tanks, planes, ships, etc etc facinating. While I don't like what they are used for, I can respecet what was created. I can also respecet the people who have died for what they fought and believed in. While right or wrong they believed in a cause worth fighting. It is sad when anyone dies, and I can't beleive someone would belittle thier lives they had.

@Electric rubber, War is not a human condition, when chimpanzees, fight, they are not being 'more human than we think' as greenies put it, war is us being the animal within ourselves, falling back to our base instinct. War stems from humanities evolution in the prehistoric days racism was necessary, as if you let everyone eat your food, you'd starve, and if someone else had food you'd take it by any means necessary for survival, now we no longer need to do this, but our minds are still hardwired to take what we need/want instead of using diplomacy, as in the fields of time, diplomacy is a relatively new to any species on this planet, humanity has, at some point in the path of evolution, stumbled upon morals, now that we have the means for providing for the world, we must use it, but our minds are not built to accept these messages, we surely should hoard to survive!, our instinct is to take care of our 'group' the 'group' we protect has simply expanded over time, from family, to community, to country, now we need to make this 'group' the world, which is a difficult thing to do, because our 'instinct' is saying otherwise, humanity needs to tame theinstinct with intelligence/morality

The American Revolutionary war I'd say. Even though my side the British lost the warfare was so heroic. The immense discipline on both sides was amazing. That and how hard you Americans had to fight to win. Much more interesting than say WW2.

I mean watch this scene from the film "the patriot"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsdm7UArGcI&feature=related
warfare back then is so unique.

You are forgetting the many economic reasons as to why nations decide to go to war. Not to mention dozens of other explanations for why warfare has persisted throughout the entirety of human history.

War is not merely an archaic remnant of our paleolithic selves.

The vietnam war. It was a very interesting war regarding the censored letters, television, and the culture of the 60's.

boring trenchwar?
it had some incredible innovations
the tank
the plane
machinegun in hands
etc