Recent content by Max Lazer

Entertaining. Very. Now, I only play CoD4 Hardcore, as I have no interest in emptying half a magazine into somebody just to bring them down (figuratively speaking). Still, these are observations I've made from CoD and other games: 1. Complaining about Grenade Launchers, Last Stand...

For the fall of the Reich: Battle of the Atlantic: Ensured that supplies and troops could be delivered from America to it's allies and the front. North Africa Campaign: Barely a footnote for the Germans; the vast majority of Axis soldiers were Italian. The loss of the North African...

I had fun calmly telling people that swine flu is no big deal because it was not anywhere near as dangerous as regular flu; they responded with skepticism and in some cases they were a tad incredulous. Maybe it had something to do with the way I calmly described death tolls.... My only real...

Druggie who took his own life. Why should we care? I mean, it's too bad he died so young, but at the same time, we really can't be too sad or surprised, considering his self-made issues.

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes You don't win wars with a "balance" ideology. If the enemy pinpricks you, you sledgehammer them, if for no other reason than to make sure they can't do it again. Wars can't be finished if all each side does is slap each other one at a time until one of them cries...

An interesting anaolgy. The first one, not the second regarding the tumor. Now, landmines and booby traps are most dangerous not becuase they kill any who step on them, but because laying landmines is like a squirrel hiding nuts: they're easily forgotten. I'll have to look into this, as I don't...

Japan's war industry was largely destroyed, but no completely gone. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were completely intact, as they were left alone (along with other possible targets) to better judge the effects of the bombs. They were still legitimate military targets. Tokyo was out of the question...

Okay...to (again) make sure you all understand clearly: if a city has a target of military value, it ceases to be a civilian target. It is now a military target with civilians nearby or in it. It's that simple. Oh, and in war, people are numbers. The death of millions is a statistic, remember?

...and? So the Japanese of Hiroshima and Nagasaki get special treatment for the pains they had to endure? What of the millions of people worldwide who had to deal with their own deformities. What of the children who had to grow up with their own disfigurements, or the mental scars the war put on...

....okay. Yet again, I must remind you all of this not at all little country called the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. This rather large country suffered casualties that many thought would have assured surrender. However, not only did they not surrender, but they managed to move a large...

I believe we have reached a simple difference of opinion here. I believe in total war; you do not, as you stated that even defense contractors get a free pass because they are non-combatants. A more relevant view in the 21st century, when military spending generally takes up such a small portion...

Something I learned from reading No Simple Victory, by Norman Davies (I highly recommend it) is that you cannot narrow your view like that. We may be talking about Japan, but that doesn't mean that the other powers are out of the discussion. That's why I say that, in the grand scheme of the war...

Of course it's emotional; it's what I believe, having read books and watched news programs. I am aware that the civilians of enemy nations don't all share the same views as their leaders. This does not excuse them from the repercussions of (in Germany's case) their democratically elected...

He's probably referring to the huge amounts of radiation that does not naturally occur, killing and seriously harming the environment. Fission, after all, occurs naturally out in space, without anything to flame broil.

That was my point. Modern views on civilian casualties/total war put ridiculous restrictions on soldiers. As far as I'm concerned, civilians should be given one chance: hand over all military personnel and equipment and surrender (or all civilians simply leave the target area until the battle's...