War saw the French trying to use these gatling guns, these early machine guns as best they could, but no one really had any clue what to do with them that, change by one thousand, nine hundred and fourteen. Now think about that. Gentlemanly warfare, if there's ever been such a thing. is that if you went to war with Russia, you had to attack France. So he says, one way or another. Shorter and shorter intervals, kept challenging the monarchy and would never have left off until the moment favorable for the shattering of the empire had arrived. There's never been a human experience like it and it changes a generation. When atomic weapons are used? yards, a thousand yards ahead to keep enemy artillery away, and you have this system. It's perhaps the most. king of Belgium basically orders that all those things be done and then kind. It is guaranteed by the greatest powers of the age. He kept negotiating with Britain saying you know you do. Which is protected by this circle of forthright, with man in between all the forts. A war without mercy begins to develop infusing the whole conflict with a savage vibe. Two of blueprint for Armageddon. the problem, a lot of countries were having the Germans were very worried about what were called free shooters today we would call them snipers, because in the war of eighteen, seventy they had a lot of problems with snipers, so they win. This, you know new scholarship, all the time on the question of atrocities in Belgium, because, you know during the war. That happened before the war and then just you know, 'cause it's from this war. If this were a movie, the events and cameos would be too numerous and star-studded to mention. the Russians say we're only doing this again: do you doesn't matter. What are the odds of that happening?. Blueprint for Armageddon IV (2:58:48). Most of us do that utilized the road system think about, But the road system in Belgium, tiny little. Deep themes run through this show, with allegations of Japanese war crimes and atrocities in China at the start leading to eerily familiar, almost modern questions over how the world should respond. and in Britain have no excuse to say well, french file. I protested, and said that, in the same way that he and her VON Go wished me to understand that for strict, jingle reasons. Now the weapons are destroyed a lot, cavalry, could do so forest strip down the, with cavalry to the bare minimum. Tion of armies and masses provoked by sheer desperation, Street in commerce ending in general bankruptcy. The Russians are shocking. The entire WWI experience eventually cost The Dominion of Newfoundland its democratic independence (established 1833) when, as the depression hit, Great Britain foreclosed on the Newfoundland debt it held, forced the dominion into bankruptcy, and appointed a small cadre of loyal elites to govern the place. Vital mistake number one here: He intentionally drove them away. Seven years or thirty years, duration and woe to him who sets your a polite, who first put the few, heavyweight championship fight. the government in charge in London right now, come through on the handshake deal, who's to say, they're, going to be able to keep political power. If you look at a book, you know the, beyond you know about one hundred and fifty years ago. more damage and destruction before these wars came to a halt. The duchess cried out to him, that she slid off the seat and lay on the floor of the car with her face between his knees. Together they will shift the momentum in the Pacific theater and usher in the era of modern naval and amphibious warfare. He knew that Europe was a powder keg and the key. but that event was huge right if he actually killed John F Kennedy. This very disturbing and graphic show looks into some case studies and asks some deep questions. Why? This out talk it out. Jellicoe commanded the greatest fleet the world had ever seen. with the military affairs at this time. Sometimes you get a great role and you end up with a gifted ruler and then, it almost seems wonderful that they've got so much power in their hands right? and stay out of the work as they don't have a heart alliance with anyone. He woke up to one of his aides and the german officer giving him water those, soldiers, he thought were belgian, were german and they were the first to enter the fort. In fact. All around the Neil Ferguson said they weren't. The stories of you know, the soldiers taking kuwaiti babies out of incubators and throwing them on the floor than stealing the incubators, and all these stories are normal because real atrocities are going on, but then they're magnified because the magnification works to the benefit of the enemies of the people. You want to believe it's a hot button issue, none the less. Like I said earlier, or maybe you know a few shots up in the air, we protected our honor. I remember the First Gulf WAR. 50-Blueprint-for-Armageddon-I-Hardcore-History-Dan-Carlin.mp3, Users who like 50-Blueprint-for-Armageddon-I-Hardcore-History-Dan-Carlin.mp3, Users who reposted 50-Blueprint-for-Armageddon-I-Hardcore-History-Dan-Carlin.mp3, Playlists containing 50-Blueprint-for-Armageddon-I-Hardcore-History-Dan-Carlin.mp3, More tracks like 50-Blueprint-for-Armageddon-I-Hardcore-History-Dan-Carlin.mp3. I was one of the members of the terrorist band in Belgrade, which received it, In those days I and my companions were regarded as desperate criminals. Even the winners. In a, you want a war, then we're going to go to war, Crown crowned heads of Europe attacked France after France went all revolutionary and you have, understand how much of a shock that was historian. It isn't so important. They had with people who are going to guarantee their security, which is how this whole thing's happening anyway right. the Russians can expect from him very very soon. 50-Blueprint-for-Armageddon-I-Hardcore-History-Dan-Carlin (1).mp3, Users who like 50-Blueprint-for-Armageddon-I-Hardcore-History-Dan-Carlin (1).mp3, Users who reposted 50-Blueprint-for-Armageddon-I-Hardcore-History-Dan-Carlin (1).mp3, Playlists containing 50-Blueprint-for-Armageddon-I-Hardcore-History-Dan-Carlin (1).mp3, More tracks like 50-Blueprint-for-Armageddon-I-Hardcore-History-Dan-Carlin (1).mp3. They also, we've taking hostages for good behavior and when people, stuff anyway, they killed the hostages. Italy says they're out. The, using it becomes so important, though, is because, all the many controversies in this story. All these powers in Europe Attack France at the same time and you're stuck with I mean, like, a bit of your army leftover, the artillery stayed with the people, so the old french artillery was good, but you've got this mishmash of an army with officers. The wonderful world of science and engineering is going to, Take over the battlefields of this upcoming conflict in a way that has never happened before and this, happened to me most symbolizes in this early part of the war, you know your example of here's. All that was lacking. You know we're capable and they could deal with it and they were very efficient, logistically and everything for their time period, but, teen times that amount. from this moment until that in which our enemies shall have been driven from the territory of the republic, all French, permanently requisition for service in the army's the young men shall fight the married men shall forge weapons and transport supplies. France with Germany is a modern nation. They had a nominal alliance with Germany and Austria, Hungary, but they choose, used to use an out clause which may or may not be valid, depending on who you're talking to saying that this, here's to being aggressive war and their alliance only covers defensive war, so they're out they declare, they're neutral on this new conflict, it's just starting the next day in the. With no end in sight. Your current browser isn't compatible with SoundCloud. Basically,. declares war on France and Belgium. The Germans practiced collective punishment, all these awful things that most most, They paid an extra price for it by providing the basic seeds that would grow into enemy propaganda. There's two: globalization. The commander of the belgian forces that were resisting this german assault by General VON Emack and his special brigades, Tuchman writes, quote on August fifth, It makes brigades open to the attack on the four eastern, most sports of the edge with a cannonade by field artillery followed by an infantry assault. You know who are sort of the forefathers of these Germans, two of the signatories to something called the Treaty of London in eighteen, thirty, nine that pledged to, in a wonderfully tragic ironic sort of connection to, by the way, the, Belgium is going to play leading to the first World war is very similar to the role Poland played leading up to the second. Proclaimed and that's how it happened, you didn't proclaim English. it's longstanding, as is the national security concern that Britain has had for a very long time of keeping the channel ports in Belgium out of the hands of some dangerous hostile power throughout most of Britain's history that dangerous hostile power was France, but they're calling the Kaiser the new Napoleon and if he goes into Belgium, he's going to have those channel ports. It involved. It is this huge deal and those. Well or badly hurt in the blood on the street. They were, after all. Violating Belgium, ends up taking a Britain that one historian says as recently as two days before they declare war on. The entire french outlook on war right now is, keep this idea that you attack and you attack with the band that doesn't really mean you're, going to. Lee Harvey Oswald on the pages of the hill. In the 21st century now we've had a long time to absorb the ideas of 20th century, big and and how it's a legitimate aspect of war, and one of the things you do is. Change the president instantly right, I mean how many of us have the potential to, lone gunman did if he was indeed the lone gunman, the. He said that the, government was terrable to a degree just for a word neutrality, a word which in wartime it so often been disregarded just for a scrap of paper, Britain was going to make war on a kindred nation who desired nothing better than to be friends with her all, efforts in that direction had been rendered useless by this last terrible step, as I knew he had devoted himself since is a session to office had tumbled down like a house of cards. It's a function of modern civilization. German, hire that will be blamed for everything. There's an old phrase, the peace, used to use in the late one thousand nine, military planners in Europe at this time period or worried about something a little bit different. Some user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. It doesn't, anyone else out because they're going to fight a little war against each other and they have to mobilize to do that. Remember, positioning those are troops who picked the, watch that they were in because they're important strategic spots, important passes and river crossings and other things that have been built up with fortifications for years and the, government is so freaked out about possibly being, for starting this and the Germans not being blamed for starting this. 0% played 00:00 00:00. All we're doing is bringing back traditional prussian martial practices that, Unbelievably efficient precision, drilling and all that those are rushing qualities that go back to Frederick the great and it freaked out, a lot of the countries in Europe. That's what set those name! That's happening here: ok, militarism, the entire. you could have used a historical xerox machine to duplicate that world conquering army, ten. The testimony of an American whose jaw is on the floor observing a single uniform German column of millions of men marching by for 26 straight hours. brutal are advance into Belgium is brutal. A tiny little neutral nation, that's less than a hundred years old and has never fought a war. Find european countries to each other. Stories of german behavior in Belgium, the Sun, Chronicle, he writes was one of many british papers which alleged that the Germans had cut off the hands of belgian children, while the four, ill disguised relish the quote: wild orgies of blood and debauchery and quote ', which the Germans allegedly indulged, including the quote ruthless violation and killing of defenseless women, girls and children of tender age and quote for, and continues quote other writers had great fun. He means London, which is in a terrible state of depression, and paralysis, is for the time being, all against english intervention. Coral Sea, Midway and Guadalcanal are three of the most famous battles of the Second World War. become the Magino line after this war and before the Second World war during this time, period. artillery and ammunition had been thrown everywhere. Add to cart. While an odds-maker in Las Vegas would certainly have the British Navy the heavy favorite to defeat their German counterparts in a general fleet battle, the Germans were still perhaps the second most dangerous navy in the world. days that hostilities commence. With the anniversary of the most emotionally important heart wrenching. An man supremacy on the battlefield, even though they're the ones who run the machines hello. This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. And show them some history books and show them what it happened. Jeff Teach wrote after the fact quote, A tiny clipping from a newspaper mailed without comment from a secret band of terrorists in Zagreb, a cap. and starts leading them toward the objective. But 99 years later the dam breaks and a Pandora's Box of violence engulfs the planet. As we said, this is what makes it the greatest mistake, though, potentially in all german history. Download this episode in the store Click Here! What I love, Ferguson says he goes and finds like the original thing that happened and then how it got blown out of proportion and but nonetheless, all these, people emphasize the same thing. Some, The great battle is the only battle wars are won or lost on one big battle: 'cause the nation states couldn't take too many punches. The Atlantic Slave Trade mixes centuries of human bondage with violence, economics, commerce, geo-political competition, liberty, morality, injustice, revolution, tragedy and bloody reckonings. Why does it? Von Moltke was basically saying knock come out, quick knockouts, that's. Fighting armies, like this one, Richard Harding Davis, writes quote, the entrance of the german army into Brussels has lossed the human quality it was. Elation in France, traditionally, the greatest land power in Europe until this time period, destabilizing. So they wait until the Germans arrive. Scrobble, find and rediscover music with a Last.fm account, Do you know a YouTube video for this track? You know. 94 votes, 22 comments. And the Belgians would have every right you, think when you to wonder as their living through this, where their protectors are, they signed these agreements that said that they indeed. Those who, today he writes shower the viennese government with reproaches on the form and content of this ultimatum. the nicest you can be, even if it's horribly brutal, to make the knockout as quick as it is so fun, in this case is basically saying yeah, it's a it's, well, but in the end this is going to save lives going to use. The planet hadn't seen a major war between all the Great Powers since the downfall of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815. It's hard core history. Episode 53 - Blueprint for Armageddon IV Now Available! But what are you going to do? Now now turn the clock back. With put it, he of course. You have to imagine a state where the entire underpinnings of the state of been broken down, including especially the army, and then all of me, Russia, Russia, Austria, Great Britain. So they capture him very quickly and run him off to be interrogated and. Think, That's a neolithic weapon! country that doesn't exist anymore called Austria, Hungary, very well loved guy named France. Troy, Britton Fiscally, which sounds like the worst thing in the world until you fast, where the time machine for years and see what's really going to happen where you. . These guns were pulverising for, that were built to withstand the guns of just a generation before and doing so with ease, that's a demonstration, How much things have changed just since the 1880s and think of how. The way those old fashioned movies were in everything and it just doesn't look real, but you can go and you can see pictures, because they have saved the tunic. That way, on June 28th, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen Gavrilo Princip and, from, six to some sources, say twenty assassins, In Sarajevo with murder on their minds. This is a civil lawsuit. It would cost a hell of a lot more than that. because this army was so intimidating, so scary. Most militaries are moving away from that the Germans use. The eighth struck home, then the gun fell silent for the night, but the, this morning joined by the other, which is completed. and supported by a modern 20th century state. The Frank, prussian. I mean, if you were a cavalry commander. Officers respect for those wonderful Germans, as he called them, The military virtues of valor that were so celebrated during this period. You'll have rail guns that are that large to same problem, though, how do you get him from place to place they're, so big they're, so heavy the larger? There's, there's your first nightmare and then the Germans to across some of these rivers on the frontier in pontoons. In the early Middle Ages Pagan Germanic-language speakers like the Vikings are a dying breed. The belgian defense is that the. Queen Victoria's grandchild he's the first cousin of the king of England, King George, right, not just that, but the czar of Russia is married to another, Victoria's grandchildren, so bizarre as her son in law, it's also Wilhelm's cousin, and then, when you know he gets upset, we want to talk to, the Russians about something he will often sit down and pen. Its sold effectively as our version of The 4th of July (the BlueJays surely have the date booked with MLB as a perennial home game). There is not, apparently a chin, strap or a horseshoe missing. This episode was awesome, as are all the others in Blueprint for Armageddon. It was inevitable that something like that would break down the, and that the Austro Hungarians didn't just, They found out that the service will responsible for killing their heir to the throne is, they knew that would mean war with Russia. The french, Calvary heading off to war, as I said earlier, but you have to imagine this. of July, the british Prime Minister wrote in his diary quote, The european situation is at least one degree worse than it was yesterday, and it is. But, and intimidating as they are meant to be. Their opponent. I don't want to hear that, so they talk about the results as being unrepresentative, involved in the idea of the power of the bay in it and the charge in the offensive for, well. They don't, really wrong way to be organized. Barbara Tuchman has a passage in her book which she quotes. There is something very crude. For the Serbians to do French can't do that, you know hand over your national security keys to your most antagonistic historic enemy, I think so, and the Germans must have known that they knew they could. Two people, in the city of Sarajevo. The romance was incredible this, is the era where that romance runs into reality, in a way that you just can't pretend I mean guys like, William Tecumseh Sherman, the civil war general for the? From Biblical-era coup conspiracies to the horrific aftermath of ancient combat this second installment of the series on the Kings of Achaemenid Persia goes where only Dan can take it. Didn't have that power for all. It's our old boxing analogy. Series Link. Stephanie Avant would have found a way to avert in what ended. That continually gets threatened, like the russian roulette trigger being pulled is never going to happen. He knew the peace faction in his government would topple his government if a statement like that were made in both the, and the Germans for a very long time before this conflict breaks out, but especially in the fevered in the last month or, trying to get some sort of word from Great Britain what the policy is, what you going to do with the last minute. They have a handshake deal and they're start to get a little bit worried about the handshake deal. For just this job, like I said earlier, the day was called deer tag the day this has been plan, Essentially a special unit of thirty thousand guys whose job it is to take out the sports at the Belgians, don't stand aside and surrender them the Belgians, stand aside and surrender them, and in fact the bell, Regions are going to teach the first great lesson of the war about, what's changed, since the last time, great powers faced off how much the. You look at, economics? What's going on in this guy had a particular interest in this battle because he was one of the people who planned it. Stream 50-Blueprint-for-Armageddon-I-Hardcore-History-Dan-Carlin (1).mp3 by Raymie Roberts on desktop and mobile. That's again, where the german war plans put them in a situation where, for the, strategic problems that are going to cost you the war. This is the era of a very complex web of alliances. The shells that Napoleon's twelve pounders fired, or between nine and twelve pounds. seized with worry that the bullets may have been shot from the pistols of german students who want of indignation at the heirs apparent, continuous work of slav ization want. Everybody by putting together enough units to at least attack. Track your ranks and reviews from Spotify, Apple Podcasts and more. The, in the cavalry commander still have going in their favor. This is like, for Europe, and no one knows how long the drop is going to be and they. logical side of your brain stands a pretty good chance of flipping and trying to defend the illogical position. So I recently had to change phones and on my old phone I had the hardcore history episodes for Blueprint for Armageddon. Blueprint for Armageddon : r/dancarlin - Reddit terrible dilemma of how do you fight a two front war. Episode 54 - Blueprint for Armageddon V. 4:29:55. The great powers fought each other in Europe hundred years before. Bosnia, Herzegovina and. Also, it's a political reasons. Mounds of bodies and the Belgians can't figure out the best. You know through, entire history. So you can have this province and then on next time, I'll beat you and I'll take that province back you know, nobody was true, in the top of the regimes. There's never been a human experience like it and it changes a generation. rested on firm foundations. What was going on was behind the scenes, a ton of diplomacy, and one of the main avenues of diplomacy, were the fray. bodies were carried into the building where their death was soon established. Atrocities tend to happen. The person who was closest to the whole thing was count VON, who, who was, great of a job, apparently at security and he, first, the car- and he later testified- this quote, As the car quickly reversed, a thin stream of blood spurted from his highness's mouth onto my right, cheek. Ok, do we shoot through these bodies and create? How much of a gambler do you have to be to risk defeat in the greatest conflict in history on a single roll of the dice? When cities are incinerated? The only problem is that those highways neutrality is guaranteed by the british government and, have been for seventy five years. explodes when it's magazine is hit by one of these shells completely destroying the whole thing. are. Everything from the precision drill to the equipment. All we have now is people's war. was coming on the anniversary of this historic defeat, their nose in the fact that Sarajevo is still held by a big non slavic empire and they're going to make France Ferdinand pay for that, And in the remarkably similar situation to the Kennedy assassination, for his motorcade is published ahead of time, going to be arriving and going down the main boulevards in an open car with his wife, multiple assassins line themselves up at very, intervals along the parade route and plan to kill the, too many other Serbs in the crowd nearby, the first few assassins, so the first few assassins don't try to make a run at him, eventually. In response to this, Belgians, have a heroic moment where the king of Belgium, you know, and the major officials all get together and basically all agree that they're not going to stand down, attitude they seem to have his we're screwed, either way, We might as well go out of this gloriously and they decide to mobilize their tiny little army and fight and at the same time, issue, calls to the other guarantors of their neutrality, saying, you know, and they they waited until the moment. talk about boldness talk about gambling. I think the prospect very black today end quote. In a flip, the doomsday device switch were, again another one of those places where the war guilt question hinges. Regis Gamble right to invade Russia. That's the luck of the draw, if the, Rob of Kaiser had been merit based, Kaiser Wilhelm. There's never been a human experience like itand it changes a generation. You were going to screw up your entire plan for winning the war. During this time period it might, International incidents which could have led to war previously didn't, but now are because the leadership sucks. And you know how do you grow into your own man with that guy hanging over your shoulder? There are the fame, governments of France and Britain, for example, France is a republic again by this time, having, tried out royalty again after Napoleon decided that they like, written might as well be by this time period. They were taking advantage of huge french bank loans. Cuz they fought in, any parts of the world so long, and so often they're not come, to learn on the job. You cannot. the very short window of opportunity. Three of the major powers in this conflict are ruled by emperors, kings or czars. they might alleviate the threat of this german fleet, but by nine. And the idea now of these mass armies that your pet created was that you need. comment. power and Britain was at the height of everybody's financial power. small way. Just downloaded Ghosts of the Ostfront and I cant wait to start it! It's one of the fine things we have lossed as a result of the french revolution. hang a few of these saboteurs. A price was on our heads today. Of course, we had our losses, but they were slight compared to the carnage we inflicted on our enemies and quote. Germany didn't come around until most of the good stuff was taken was a, Germany worried about being encircled. We are no longer capable of it. It issued do it in injustice, no. part of my brain will sometimes shift and try to defend something like fate or destiny, the two ends of the scale: chaos on one side and randomness on one side and fate, weird Twilight Zone where the two sort of intersect and, Event that happened in late June.