In the past we have seen that any occasion may be taken to start a war, be it an assassination or some dispute about grounds (territory), or just greed to have more power over a wider area.
Often people are thinking they are involved in a defensive struggle for just aims or think they are doing good to go for their country, defending it or defending their goals.
Like for the Great War it was proven many years later that often it was not the one thought to be the beginner of the war (Germany in 1914) who really started the battle, though sometimes the victim became accused to be the agitator.
Germany’s and Austria-Hungary’s roles are deemphasised, and it is stressed that there were decision-makers in all the major capital cities who considered a general European war in August 1914 to be a risk worth taking. After 100 years of debate, every conceivable interpretation seems to have been advanced. In some of the most recent publications, even seeking to attribute responsibility, as had so confidently been done at Versailles, is now eschewed.
Often we also see that when certain countries were created artificially in the end it did not work and got them fighting again to restore older borders.
Award-winning journalist who covers military history and national security issues for daily newspapers and online publications, Paul Richard Huard, looks at the trigger of what cause the 9 million soldiers and 8 million civilians dying in a war like no others.
I disagree with him that war
is an elemental human experience.{saying on his about page}
He also finds that history doesn’t repeat itself, but I do think it does and it does much more than echoing it. But we can see that it is because many do not know their history that such repetitions can take place. It is the preferred deafness and blindness which takes the people making the same faults again and again.
Some of those echoes — resurgent nationalism, xenophobia, militarism, economic turmoil, and tin-eared elites deaf to the concerns of ordinary individuals on the ragged end of globalism — could presage similar events
Today many people should better look into the mirror both World War I/The Great War , the Balkan wars and World War II give us. What happened 100 years ago may have shaped the contemporary world every day but still many have not learned the lessons yet. War changes the world.
Let’s hope that drastic change isn’t around the corner.
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Preceding articles
- All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting… George Orwell
- Parade’s End and Saint Flora Castle
- 1914 – 2014 preparations
- 11 November, a day to remember #1 Until Industrialisation
- 11 November, a day to remember #2 From the Industrialisation
- Mons 2014 remembering the Great War
- Liège 2014 remembering the Great War
- August 4, 1914 to be remembered
- Honouring hundreds of thousands of victims of the brutal Somme battle
- Ulster Tower ceremony for the Irish at the Somme battle
- Aftermath
- Juncker warns for possible new war
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Additional reading
- A world with or without religion
- July 4, 1916 – Battle of the Somme greeted with ‘the greatest enthusiasm’
- Reflections on the Great War #1 100 years on
- Reflections on the Great War #2
- Too Young To Fight?
- Remembrance isn’t only about those who fought, but also those who refused
- In Flanders Fields II – a new poem in response to the original
- Lessons of the Somme
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Further reading
- 1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Gettysburg begins
- 1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Gettysburg – Day 2
- 1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Gettysburg – Day 3
- Fall Of Empire: And Then Came Chilcot
- The Fifth Nation in the Four Nations Approach?
- The Scene at Scott’s Mill by Tom Sheehan
- City of Thieves by David Benioff
- Savage, Arts Theatre
- Bangladesh ‘in denial’ over militant attacks: Analysts
- Globalization and the international war on terrorism
- Ep. 11 Unite the Salish! The Battle of Maple Bay
- The Millionth Yank
- Camp Cotton, Texas 7/4/1916
- The Daily Retro: Clear The Way
- America…
- 3rd Mass Attack in as Many Days – After Obama & Kerry say ISIS ‘on the ropes’
- The Almost Laughably Impotent Benghazi Report
- …in opposition to all military history.
- House of Cards
- A Little Chaos: Historical Landscaping in the Ancien Regime
- La vie à Versailles
- Gossip meets history at Versailles
- On Brexit, the lessons of history, and a shamefully unbalanced argument
- Nega-centennials, Nega-nations
- A True Suprise – Mostar
- -Dreams-
- Card Dump: War Tactics
- Happy July 4th… And…
- Apple Sued in China Over Showing of Propaganda War Film From 1990s
- Dear Jingo-Patriots of Amerika, I Will Not Be Joining You Today
- Fortress & Last day of war
- Shiloh ( 2016 )
- Saving Private Ryan (1998)
- The beginning
- War
- Truth
- The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. Sun Tzu
- Wishful Thinking
Yesterday marked the anniversary of the assassination in 1914 of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophia, the duchess of Hohenburg, by a Serbian nationalist named Gavrilo Princip. It is common to state that the murder of the two Austro-Hungarian nobles precipitated World War I — better known as The Great War outside of the United States.
There’s no denying the effect of the murders. Austria-Hungary and its ally Imperial Germany rallied to the cause of war and one month later Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. The declaration drew Germany, Russia, France, Belgium, Montenegro and Great Britain shortly after. The worst war in human history up to that time was underway. Eventually, more than 9 million soldiers and 8 million civilians would die in the war. Millions more were maimed and wounded by killing that occurred on an industrial scale. Empires were wiped from the map, new nations emerged, and the…
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It is said that a wise man knows what to say and when to say it. That is a quote by my Grandfather on my dad’s side of the family I don’t know who said or why my PaPA liked it but with the bad stuff that is going on and all of the other things too I believe in that statement more and more. You sir are a wise man and you have said a mouth full it is easy to see what the war would do to our (USA) and also the world because I just don’t think the war if and when we have it will just be here on our soil. Thank you for stopping by to visit my page come back. I also have another site if you want to check it out it is mlblogsredsoxlady35@wordpress.com it has stuff more important then me getting mad on spouting off at the mouth. But thanks again for stopping by. Have a nice 4th of July and I liked your blog very much. Kat
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Thanks for your kind words and for introducing you other blog.
– the address you gave (url link) does not seem to work
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just got to the first site and click my sites and switch to my other site. Thank you Marcus hope you have a great week.
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Well written and reasoned~
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Thanks.
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