Comments on: And then there was silence https://didacticmind.com/2018/11/and-then-there-was-silence.html Strategic Defence of the Mantle of Responsibility Sat, 29 Aug 2020 12:38:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: kkollwitz https://didacticmind.com/2018/11/and-then-there-was-silence.html#comment-1838 Mon, 06 May 2019 23:29:23 +0000 #comment-1838 Aspects of this article harmonize nicely with something I posted a few years ago: platytera.blogspot.com/2010/04/bloody-wipers.html

]]> By: kkollwitz https://didacticmind.com/2018/11/and-then-there-was-silence.html#comment-1837 Mon, 06 May 2019 23:24:20 +0000 #comment-1837 In reply to Anonymous.

I was thinking of Proud and Guns myself.

]]> By: Anonymous https://didacticmind.com/2018/11/and-then-there-was-silence.html#comment-1836 Mon, 12 Nov 2018 09:36:55 +0000 #comment-1836 Didact,

Good post. No argument from me that WW I was an utterly stupid war.
If the Germans had been smarter , they"d never have crossed Belgium which all the major powers agreed by treaty (per Treaty of Vienna of 1815) to be absolutely neutral.
They should've gone by sea and then land at Cherbourg.
My own view is that WW I was also caused by the spy agencies creating and funding various anarchist and revanchist groups to do the dirty work. It's not false flag but plausible deniability (agent provacateur type ops). Unfortunately, the pitbulls broke free from their leashes and the result is…WW1.
And Razorfist is correct about the treaties but he overlooked the pernicious consequences of the various secret treaties and secret annexes that bound the various powers to each other. Finally, the mobilization orders were too automated with no human killswitch (i.e. the PM or king couldn't kill the orders once given)
One of the better popular books is the Guns of August and the Proud Tower (which looks at the events from 1850s-1914) They're good intros then supplemented by more historografical works.

xavier

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