Sunday, October 04, 2020

Greatest Events of WWII in colour

Although i have read a fair bit of WWII history, i still managed to learn new things from this documentary, like how the German Blitzerg was aided by the use of meth, allowing the army to cover in 3 days (and nights) the ground that the French expected them to take 3 weeks! The biggest lesson is that the winners are the ones who leverage and integrate emerging technologies to come up with new strategies such as tanks + radio, and also application of aerial dominance, over both land and sea. Besides that, sheer industry (the US) would also win wars, so on hindsight, even if the Japanese had managed to take out the aircraft carriers at Pearl Harbour, it would only have bought them more time and they would still have eventually lost. Another thought is on how western-centric the world is, raising a big outcry at the bombing of Dresden, while the rape of Nanking and bombing of Tokyo was simply regular news. Lastly, given the right conditions, 'civilised' people can be evil too. Mass genocide will likely happen again in the future, it is just human nature.

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