Big wars that ALMOST started
Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2018 5:05 pm
http://www.cracked.com/article_20510_5- ... pened.html
How did GD help prevent these wars (if it did)?
How did GD help prevent these wars (if it did)?
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"... Meanwhile, the Soviet leaders were totally cool with a throwdown, calmly checking with the bemused Americans if they would be OK with the Soviet Union pre-emptively nuking the shit out of China."Tom Mazanec wrote:http://www.cracked.com/article_20510_5- ... pened.html
How did GD help prevent these wars (if it did)?
What's interesting is that the first scenarios involving Russia were both ended by powers that were definitely war weary. In the potential US-Russia standoff, it even says it was the US who backed down, and who wouldn't after expending so much energy in WWII (Russia was also doubly fatigued, having fought both WWI AND the Russian Revolution just thirty years earlier).http://www.cracked.com/article_20510_5- ... pened.html
How did GD help prevent these wars (if it did)?
My guess: The UK "calculated" (?) that the South couldn't win the war,.. even with the help of the UK.jmm1184 wrote:...
What always leaves me scratching my head is the US-UK scenario. ... This is an event that SHOULD have turned into a war between the US and UK and it baffles me that it did not.
Indeed I've always attributed the end of the American Civil War to be England's crisis war climax, even though the England did not directly participate.
Here's something that I posted in 2009:jmm1184 wrote: > What always leaves me scratching my head is the US-UK
> scenario. BOTH countries were in crisis eras/crisis wars. The US
> of course was just getting started with its crisis war, while
> England had experienced a regeneracy event with the Indian
> Rebellion of 1857, and it does not appear to have experienced a
> crisis war climax at that point in time. This is an event that
> SHOULD have turned into a war between the US and UK and it baffles
> me that it did not. Indeed I've always attributed the end of the
> American Civil War to be England's crisis war climax, even though
> the England did not directly participate.
This has always interested me. Most current historians paint the 19th century as one of peace and progress, and will often declare that no major European war was fought between the Napoleonic Wars and WWI . They conveniently leave out the Crimean War and the Italian and German Wars of Unification (as well as the Spanish Civil Wars that occurred at the time). The period from roughly 1850 to 1871 could be considered a kind of world war, and indeed the American Civil War may be more internationally significant than is commonly believed. Observe these crisis wars:These wars of national unification could be considered a kind of
precursor to WW I, since they involved so much of the world,
including the US and Britain. It was at this time that the world's
generational timelines coalesced around two of them, which we now
call the World War I timeline (Russia, Eastern Europe, the Mideast
and others) and the World War II timeline (North America, Western
Europe, India, China, Japan, Australia, and others).
> These wars of national unification could be considered a kind of
> precursor to WW I, since they involved so much of the world,
> including the US and Britain. It was at this time that the world's
> generational timelines coalesced around two of them, which we now
> call the World War I timeline (Russia, Eastern Europe, the Mideast
> and others) and the World War II timeline (North America, Western
> Europe, India, China, Japan, Australia, and others).
That's a great list!jmm1184 wrote: > This has always interested me. Most current historians paint the
> 19th century as one of peace and progress, and will often declare
> that no major European war was fought between the Napoleonic Wars
> and WWI . They conveniently leave out the Crimean War and
> the Italian and German Wars of Unification (as well as the Spanish
> Civil Wars that occurred at the time). The period from roughly
> 1850 to 1871 could be considered a kind of world war, and indeed
> the American Civil War may be more internationally significant
> than is commonly believed. Observe these crisis wars:
> China: Taiping and related rebellions: 1850-1864 (other rebellions lasted until 1877)
> Japan: The Meiji Revolution and Japanese Civil War: 1863-1877
> India: The Sepoy Mutiny: 1857-1859 (may have continued on in different locations through the 1860s)
> Russia & Ottoman Empire: Crimean War: 1853-1856
> Italy: Italian Unification Wars: 1859-1871
> Austria & Hungary: German Unification Wars: 1864-1866
> Denmark & Scandinavia: German Unification Wars: 1864-1864
> Germany & Alpine Countries: German Unification Wars: 1864-1871
> Poland: Polish Uprising of 1863: 1863-1864
> France & The Low Countries: The Franco-Prussian War: 1870-1871
> The British Empire (English-speaking peoples): Sepoy Mutiny, 2nd Opium War, and American Civil War: 1857-1865
> USA: 1861-1865
> New Zealand & Australia: Maori Land Wars: 1860-1864, coincides with American Civil War
> Argentina and Paraguay, possibly Brazil and Uruguay: War of the Triple Alliance: 1864-1870: I doubt this war was a crisis war for Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay, but it definitely was a crisis war for Paraguay.
I apparently reached exactly this conclusion in 2015.jmm1184 wrote: > War of the Triple Alliance: 1864-1870: I doubt this war was a
> crisis war for Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay, but it definitely
> was a crisis war for Paraguay.
That's right! I had forgotten about that.I apparently reached exactly this conclusion in 2015.