There were also numerous rapes in occupied France and Quote John Keegan, about. If this were a movie, the events and cameos would be too numerous and star-studded to mention. Text the other guarantors of belgian neutrality and says. The british situation was fundamentally different. rested on firm foundations. it's about what happens when two sides, armed with machine guns and two sides aren't with modern artillery and all that face off. Came in with the smoke pouring from cook stoves on wheels and in an hour had set up post office wagons from Witch mountain messengers, galloped along the line of columns, distributing letters and it which soldiers posted picture postcards the infantry he writes, came in files of five two hundred men to each company, the, answers in columns of four with not a pennant missing the, firing guns and field pieces were one hour at a time in passing each gun, The technician wagon taking twenty seconds in which to pass the men of, Infantry saying Fatherland, my fatherland between. All we have now is people's war. Some user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. Up until that point, it's just too vulnerable. Across you know mountainsides and country lanes and through fields and pastures, and sometimes they do but most, this is the same way. but the mouth about a John Keegan strikes me as somebody who's who feels this absolute need to defend this idea of German. This. It's perhaps the most. the very short window of opportunity. The belgian defense is that the. But here's the thing, the charge of the light brigade. You know the, feats of arms and how the german military shown themselves to be so dominant american papers are not one hundred percent against the Germans. general exhaustion and the creation of circumstances for the final victory of the working class. It sounds vaguely like other, recent European colonial conquestsuntil the natives nearly win. clarity and accuracy actually, and hopefully we, better program out of it new and improved version, two whatever you want to say. They were, after all. We kind of seem to think in our head that they can just mark. What's going on in this guy had a particular interest in this battle because he was one of the people who planned it. You. If you look at it from above ground, you can barely tell there's a fourth there when in, underground in a massive concrete and you know little railroads underneath moving guns and ammunition around it's gets cool stuff in the way the belgian designer who was one of the best in the world built this just to, we took advantage of the natural River and the. this new deadly machine that the napoleonic wars in the french revolution created was the. A position to decide to go or not to go to war that seems to put them in the driver's seat. They're, born in circle. And that war was so terrable, not just that were the entire napoleonic wars in the wars of the french revolution. An man supremacy on the battlefield, even though they're the ones who run the machines hello. have to lay cement the cement has to dry. You have a very short window of opportunity to avoid the inevitable and that's where Europe finds itself after the, Everybody's worried about the same thing too. Britain continued to pretty much dictate terms to the island and Labrador until the late forties when it aggressively shepherd-dogged Newfoundland and Labradors entry into Canadas confederation as the tenth province. After some, return to my observation tower, but I'd hardly advanced a few feet into the gallery. That is obviously designed to be rejected. When suicide attacks become the norm? Dan Carlin has the best no-nonsense History Podcast! One thousand nine hundred and fourteen is one of the, examples you'll find from history where you know the. If you screw that up, could be in Berlin having coffee and cigarettes and poking the Kaiser with a stick in a cage by the time. dismount him and use him as infantry and then use the horses to ski datil out of there before superior force could catch. 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. exposed to a lot of thinking out there by guys, like Norman Angle, we mentioned earlier, who are saying no one's going to jump, jumping would be suicidal everybody died, the golden goose would be killed, globalization would be destroyed, no one will do it, and now they had just done it. That's tiny, but that has so much, SIRI. pray, your majesty, to send help as soon as possible, He is given many proofs of your previous goodwill and we, Will find an echo in your generous love, heart and quote disturbs, send. reading, but I wouldn't have wanted to live under it in Germany. Growth in industry I mean the Germans were, So they figured the same thing if war going to come, let it come now n, amidst. I guess no, has been beaten very hard. There's no doubt about that, and some of them were direct. Can you create? Its 2018 and Im still coming back to listen to this entire thing. Please let us know your thoughts! They have to travel on different roads and then converge at certain points and you, I think of the incredible math- that's involved in these March columns and it's hard to get your mind around, but these, are so large and these roads so narrow that. And the actual circumstances, by the way where this plot was hatched. Everybody by putting together enough units to at least attack. If they find you blowing up bridges, they are. You want to believe it's a hot button issue, none the less. I thought as well was a hit man from Moscow. This, you know new scholarship, all the time on the question of atrocities in Belgium, because, you know during the war. logical side of your brain stands a pretty good chance of flipping and trying to defend the illogical position. think of what nation state on the planet could put. trying to get the british? that the British had proven that the German. He does the equivalent of, Imagine trying to hold negotiations to ward off an explosion with a guy who's already pulled the pin on the grenade right. That's undefended leads this unit past the forts. traditionally been used. We are not descended from three or four men. They don't, really wrong way to be organized. And the idea now of these mass armies that your pet created was that you need. Is that he's almost silly or that he's full, You know he just racked with inferiority complex he's almost to be pitied, he's a little mentally, all, but there isn't that malevolent, evil sort of thing, and I think part of the reason. You know again. just sounds weird in the twentieth century shows you. How strain, really ironic, though, that the people that are so, danced in those areas could have so many blind spots in areas that one would think are related to the higher culture aspects. He said in a five, superpower world make sure your countries, one of three right, It's always three against two and Russia was always to be kept on your good side when he is sacked an basically the. The german. How long do you, United States to put up with something like that. But, and intimidating as they are meant to be. I mean this is a generation that is absolutely infused with the ideas of nationalism and that dying for you. comment. If we were ranking groups from nineteen fourteen would probably call terrorist groups like, called the black hand, and these groups had ties sometimes to the serbian intelligence service. The French, your, The Germans are going to try to fake them into going into Belgium first because they think the Germans are coming in. They took three steps at times. 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. I think the prospect very black today end quote. on the Internet. Ferguson writes quote but. They will, hang you, they will shoot you if they catch you trying to blow up a bridge the, If you're near a village where a bridge gets blown up, the village might pay, price. Belgium is. make situation, guys like angle, were saying that what it, uh and is it, was so profitable to simply do business as usual that there was. Germany is lean. They couldn't re raise armies. Hungary propaganda was to portray the enemy as comical, and he said that the bridge, in the French. Nobody could foresee the end of this. 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. That sounds like a lot, yet this show merely scratches the surface of this enormous subject. The in the past I mean the Mongols in the Chinese could take some punches. the Russians can expect from him very very soon. Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. and then they do it again and again at what point. You have to think about the division, which is the basic unit unit, these militaries kind of operate with goes back to the, times. Wherever historian points out how influential this book was Orang, is trying to explain to the people in that time period that, war. I mean all these things that the Germans really prided themselves in music mean an increase, Hg wells were intimidated by couldn't help admire them, but it was intimidated by how, how ahead of things they seem to be at how advanced they seem to be in all these areas. your arm of the military is already not looked upon as very survivable, The war is all since Napoleon have kind of shown that listen, cavalry just dies on the battlefield. But that's not, first global conflict in a hundred years for to the British, this looks like a massive disruption of their extremely, profitable business ventures, they've been, illusion, written by Norman angle. Machine guns, barbed wire and millions upon millions of artillery shells create industrialized meat grinders at Verdun and the Somme. Germany exists and the minute it existed. the French had a different kind of society, one that was supposed to be run by the very you know: low born people. 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. 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. This is the part of the story after to where we are. covering the horrors of 20th century warfare. Add to cart. And then having the world spiral out of control, despite what the major players may have wanted. They were taking advantage of huge french bank loans. The battle of Kosovo way back from hundred. Here's the thing, though there were, bought. I mean that's Cray. The western world have been tranquil and it seemed safe, few middle aged and aging people in France, it had any practical experience of warfare, the newspaper, conveyed very little meaning to those for whom the world it always seems, secure, who were indeed, incapable of thinking of it as anything otherwise than secure in Britain, particularly for some weeks, the peacetime routine continued in a slightly dazed fashion. terrible dilemma of how do you fight a two front war. The Germans could say we weren't the first people to violate Belgium. You had, flights in these sports new its search light on the german side. He goes on, yesterday major General VON Jaroski, the german military governor of Brussels assured Burgermaster MAX that the german army would not occupy the city but would pass through it. If you had just said what you were going to do before the enemy did, what they did might have been. They not. So he says, one way or another. 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 99 years later the dam breaks and a Pandora's Box of violence engulfs the planet. 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. When Austria, Hungary declares war on Serbia, the markets around the world, you know, go crazy. Great job, Dan! I'm sorry. That's holding the front, that's just a big wide swinging gate. breaking a man from behind, while he was fighting for his life against two assailants healed, great Brit. Trench warfare begins, and with it, all the murderous efforts on both sides to overcome the static defenses. He go, England to spend time with his cousins, and they don't really care for him too much. When cities are incinerated? Easily my favorite series (and the first one I listened too of Dan's as it was coming out). realm of global public opinion because of their behavior, hey, here that the Germans will use all throughout this war and again in the second World war, tendency to ignore neutrality. As, Michaels, you run up against him in there tough and that, used to shatter all the propaganda, it's better to say that these evil? The Blueprint for Armageddon has been your best podcast yet! My throat as an advice, end quote. When the news of the murder of Archduke Francis Ferdinand arrived in Munich, going to be sitting at home and heard of it only vaguely, I was at. Does it. Second? Stream 50-Blueprint-for-Armageddon-I-Hardcore-History-Dan-Carlin (1).mp3 by Raymie Roberts on desktop and mobile. Folks, it's on the slide to general war. Winston Churchill said that there was only one man on either side of the First World War who could lose the war in an afternoon. The gun itself weighed about one thousand two hundred pounds the same gun, essentially in in one case that. The United States, later included, will be called, WAR. because the mounds of bodies become places. You, like a man still walking about the world, unaware that he is contracted a fatal disease which will alter every routine and habit in his life, people went on with their summer holidays shops reassured their customers with the announcement business. Ok, maybe what do I do now? It's one of the fine things we have lossed as a result of the french revolution. Their opponent. Think about how the american people would have reacted, regardless of what the facts were if they thought that was the case, it's only a year after the cuban missile crisis a year after World WAR, three is potentially dodged. The largest of the guns that are on the way from Berlin to Belgium, The largest of them weighs three hundred thousand pounds. I don't. the deployment of millions cannot be improvised, but you get the point. power and Britain was at the height of everybody's financial power. elation like eight times as much and the rest of Germany, with the militarised on the russian model. Dont want to subscribe? popular participation that no other civilized society had ever even approached. He kept negotiating with Britain saying you know you do. down rebellions by their population. Didn't have that power for all. explodes when it's magazine is hit by one of these shells completely destroying the whole thing. So what had been, that didn't really, you know, appeal to the God is changing because of Belgium. Similarly about the Germans, as the Germans felt about the Russians, they were looking at the german birth rate and just going. use this war issue you not to topple the government. S gas is seemed to grip. That was sort of the silver lining in this coming Armageddon angles wrote quote, I see a world war of never before seen, extension and intensity. The Germans, by the way, stepped in everybody's, worried somebody's gonna, pull a fast one and try to fit like that. That was a long quote, but that's, That's the german army of the Kaiser right on campaign. Because he had a new kind of army, he had a, Countries of Europe had to do the same thing as, german field, Marshal blue shirt, told the Prussian. advancing german armies executed civilians, including women and priests. wants to get more involved in this looming war because of the handshake deal with France. Where do you stand. 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. that they had this sort of paranoia about being encircled. Please download one of our supported browsers. 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. Countries on the other side of the ledger or Russia don't have to worry, but they have to worry about the political situation. We have listening, but that's going to be. What happens if human beings can't handle the power of their own weaponry? inevitably as they traveled they spawned fictions in their wake of rape of Macau. I mean, if, if Gov, a nine hundred eleven attack ever and if that was, all he did wouldn't be important. What's bearing down on the small british forces landed on the continent, and this french force who. policy begins to be heavily influenced by the german Kaiser the emperor. Be the first one to, 50 Blueprint For Armageddon I Hardcore History, 50-blueprint-for-armageddon-i-hardcore-history, Advanced embedding details, examples, and help, Terms of Service (last updated 12/31/2014). Machine guns, barbed wire and millions upon millions of artillery shells create industrialized meat grinders at Verdun and the Somme. The, using it becomes so important, though, is because, all the many controversies in this story. The Germans had been trying to plan for what they're going to do with the war. It's also my, in that the Germans are being taught a lesson. What do you. Sometimes, when you're trying to create a new world, you have to other. The last thing they wanted to do was give them guns and train them how to use it right, training how to be better street fighters. just remind myself how young these people are not old enough. to deal with it, because the mounds of bodies become a problem? I mean it's kooky stuff. Color, there's nothing like it, tend to believe human beings are programmed to react to that specific color. Machine guns, barbed wire and millions upon millions of artillery shells create industrialized meat grinders at Verdun and the Somme. big siege mortars entered into the action they hurled against US shells weighing one thousand kilos, the explode. Here's how it works. 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. Some of these countries are saddled with people, leadership is such an interesting side of this conflict because, I firmly believe, have you had a guy of Auto VON Bismarck's caliber in his, authority in Germany when the first World WAR is on the verge of happening that they could put the pan. This war is going to take us there and it's going to pound the point home till you're, sick of it, After the failure of that german attack on the belgian defenses, the Germans regroup to attack again that same night August, fifth, there, weaknesses who were with the troops describe them as nervous and anxious, and gloomy about the prospects of assaulting. it is Napoleon famously said to the austrian diplomat count Metternich, you cannot stop me. but the world had ever seen, and certainly the largest that the world had ever seen getting ready. War and, to smash into France in the part of France. was better than war war, meaning negotiations always better than war, but the person, he pulled the pin on the hand grenade. It's a very modern way to use cavalry and and really the only way. did. There was something to do with one another. End quote. I've always thought, for example, that, somewhat random, that millions of people going about their lives in their own ways with trend, forces, acting upon them and people in important positions, making decisions and all this together creates a dynamic. Theres never been a human experience like itand it changes a generation. Episode 53 - Blueprint for Armageddon IV Now Available! I remember a conversation I had quite a long. We're joined by cavalry cyclists artillery medical units cook wagons, blacks, according to Prepared railway timetables to concentration, points near the frontier where they, formed into divisions, divisions into Coors and Coors into armies, ready to advance in fight one, a total of forty in the german forces require, one hundred and seventy railway cars for officers. I do not know, but now, twenty six hours, the gray Army has rumbled by with the mystery of fog and the pertinacity of a steamroller. When, actually some guys on bicycles, believe it or not, paddle into Belgium, and give notices to the locals that we're sorry that we have to do this and, everything be fine, just don't cause any trouble, don't blow up any bridges, Or any tunnels anything we might need to get from here to there leave all that in place or those will be considered hostile acts as soon, becomes apparent that Germans are on belgian soil. I had no idea that she too was hit and thought that she had simply fainted with fright. 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. Error of warfare was the kind of warfare where you know the lead. He answered me quite distinctly. You know, a bit of a rush here. Divisions are still use, of course, in militaries today and if you want to think about, fifteen thousand men in a division is a kind of a rough size. What angle was saying is that anything you would gain by launching a war would be dwarfed by what you would lose by destroying the system that was allowing everyone to make so much money, there's an old line that, opposite situation. But 99 years later the dam breaks and a Pandora's Box of violence engulfs . The planet hadn't seen a major war between all the Great Powers since the downfall of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815. this coming conflict and how terrible it was going to be and, of course, in his mind, hoping for an overthrow of all the existing regimes to be replaced by communism. The second wouldn't have gotten anywhere near it, and yet he's the Guy. That's undefended, but the reason the part-, that's that's undefended or less defended than this fortified, there is less defended is because it isn't on the border with Germany, on the border. Everything from the precision drill to the equipment. German uniforms are feldgrau, I guess is the proper way to, outside, but basically it's just a gray, but, this time period, most nations had only relatively recently gone away from gaudy colorful clothing. by the way when we tried desperately to keep weapons of mass, stretching out of the terrorist hands because we're afraid they'll be able to kill more people with such weapons. What are you going to do. There's never been a human experience like it and it changes a generation. They they had more staying power. You have to infer that. Many of their contemporaries wish they'd die faster. Blueprint for Armageddon I Addeddate 2022-03-17 22:00:36 Identifier 50-blueprint-for-armageddon-i-hardcore-history Scanner Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.6.4. plus-circle Add Review. Hitler says, each mistake of Germany and Austria. When you, situation now and imagine Germany without having lost those two world wars and how different they might be today there, this role of the iron dice is going to war. The most important appeal to the gut, the that Belgium has is the propaganda slash pr side of this whole thing. The Japanese were dealing with it in China and Korea. He means London, which is in a terrible state of depression, and paralysis, is for the time being, all against english intervention. You know. would have found a way to avert in what ended. The Austro Hungarians, declare war on July 28th exactly one month after the assassination and they're shelling Belgrade. Two of blueprint for Armageddon. They got all these colonies. these interesting conflicts of interest in worries about timing and all this stuff, the, world sees where it's heading and tries to pull, the greatest statesman Europe can produce during this time period. there's quite a bit of division over this whole thing, during this time period between when the archduke was assassinated, which happens on June 28th, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, and when the Austro hungarian government issues that famous ultimatum, the list of demands to Serbia, which happens on July 23rd? For more information, please see our He pounds on the door demanding the surrender and they open up the door. 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. You know a president. It would cost a hell of a lot more than that. it didn't work and the people in charge of it were guys like VON Moltke, who said. Those who, today he writes shower the viennese government with reproaches on the form and content of this ultimatum. power in the world could have acted differently in the same situation and the same position at her cell. The Russians are shocking. What changed that the invasion of Belgium. in a line of german advance during this time period was a very day. Download this episode in the store Click Here! You can beat the violence out of a. even the globalization you that this time, that it depends on how hard you beat them. Machine guns, barbed wire and millions upon millions of artillery shells create industrialized meat grinders at Verdun and the Somme. You know the napoleonic wars earlier, actually, fashion has ours for helmet. Could. Take control of the government then say to France. A regular fighting, of course, is when you know regular people. Russia is going to attack us if Russia taxes. Perhaps, Princep in his compatriots would have thought that you know. The Germans attack four of these belgian forts now, between the forts, the Belgians quickly put some infantry and there are a couple of machine guns around and whatnot in the Germans. Even as this story is going down in the guns are pulverising the fortune.