Comments on: Battle Face http://www.ninme.com/archives/2006/12/battle_face.html Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:03:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: ninme http://www.ninme.com/archives/2006/12/battle_face.html#comment-10645 ninme Wed, 03 Jan 2007 17:37:43 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2006/12/29/battle_face.html#comment-10645 <p>Leaving a comment: "book".</p> <p>(For searching...)</p> Leaving a comment: “book”.

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]]> By: Rueful Red http://www.ninme.com/archives/2006/12/battle_face.html#comment-10644 Rueful Red Wed, 03 Jan 2007 14:14:17 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2006/12/29/battle_face.html#comment-10644 <p>"The Mask of Command" is very good too - comparing Alexander, Wellington, Grant and Hitler. Recommended. "The Price of Admiralty" is excellent throughout, but the highlight has to be a really lousy quarter-hour for the Jap carrier fleet one morning at Midway. Just wrecked the whole morning. And the comparison between Napoleon's artillery park and the firepower Nelson commanded is worth a thought or two.</p> “The Mask of Command” is very good too - comparing Alexander, Wellington, Grant and Hitler. Recommended. “The Price of Admiralty” is excellent throughout, but the highlight has to be a really lousy quarter-hour for the Jap carrier fleet one morning at Midway. Just wrecked the whole morning. And the comparison between Napoleon’s artillery park and the firepower Nelson commanded is worth a thought or two.

]]> By: Rueful Red http://www.ninme.com/archives/2006/12/battle_face.html#comment-10643 Rueful Red Wed, 03 Jan 2007 10:00:13 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2006/12/29/battle_face.html#comment-10643 <p>Keegan's distaste was in 1976 required by his non-professional readership - we'd thought of war as an aberration, and even treated the IRA as criminals, not soldiers. That approach doesn't work in Muslim societies.</p> Keegan’s distaste was in 1976 required by his non-professional readership - we’d thought of war as an aberration, and even treated the IRA as criminals, not soldiers. That approach doesn’t work in Muslim societies.

]]> By: ninme http://www.ninme.com/archives/2006/12/battle_face.html#comment-10642 ninme Sun, 31 Dec 2006 06:47:55 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2006/12/29/battle_face.html#comment-10642 <p>I do have that effect on my readers. Mind control, that is.</p> I do have that effect on my readers. Mind control, that is.

]]> By: wf http://www.ninme.com/archives/2006/12/battle_face.html#comment-10641 wf Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:51:38 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2006/12/29/battle_face.html#comment-10641 <p>What a coincidence - I am just reading The Face of Battle. I´m right in the middle of it.</p> What a coincidence - I am just reading The Face of Battle. I´m right in the middle of it.

]]> By: ninme http://www.ninme.com/archives/2006/12/battle_face.html#comment-10640 ninme Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:26:23 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2006/12/29/battle_face.html#comment-10640 <p>Yes, well, he does spend some time at the beginning explaining that he's never been in battle (couldn't join the army because of an illness), and that many people born in the west after the 1930s, who were too young to serve in WWII (though he does mention those who lived through the Battle of Britain though he doesn't really think that counts), except for Americans in Vietnam, haven't ever seen battle.</p> Yes, well, he does spend some time at the beginning explaining that he’s never been in battle (couldn’t join the army because of an illness), and that many people born in the west after the 1930s, who were too young to serve in WWII (though he does mention those who lived through the Battle of Britain though he doesn’t really think that counts), except for Americans in Vietnam, haven’t ever seen battle.

]]> By: Brett_McS http://www.ninme.com/archives/2006/12/battle_face.html#comment-10639 Brett_McS Sat, 30 Dec 2006 09:38:38 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2006/12/29/battle_face.html#comment-10639 <p>So clearly the writings of a Brit (of a certain <i>Southern</i> school).</p> <p>Judging from the quotes, he seems to be elevating <i>distaste</i> to a point where it trumps virtually everything else. Anyhow, that seems to be the underlying motivation (and why I call the writing typically British - of the non-Rueful school, that is).</p> <p>A stark contrast would be the rather full-blooded approach to war of C.S.Lewis - who fought in the trenches in WWI, remember. I would say that Lewis put war under those things that are Caesar's, and determined himself to fight the good fight.</p> So clearly the writings of a Brit (of a certain Southern school).

Judging from the quotes, he seems to be elevating distaste to a point where it trumps virtually everything else. Anyhow, that seems to be the underlying motivation (and why I call the writing typically British - of the non-Rueful school, that is).

A stark contrast would be the rather full-blooded approach to war of C.S.Lewis - who fought in the trenches in WWI, remember. I would say that Lewis put war under those things that are Caesar’s, and determined himself to fight the good fight.

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