August 17, 2020
@Westmoorland83 Fighting in the armies of the partitioning powers in the main i.e. Germany, Austria, Russia.
@Westmoorland83 Fighting in the armies of the partitioning powers in the main i.e. Germany, Austria, Russia.
RT @daniel_dsj2110: Hannah Arendt and Raymond Aron, Milan, Italy, 1955: https://t.co/qvhLNdmpwe
RT @yayitsrob: Love how there’s a stratigraphic layer in the laundry hamper that’s “clothes I was very fond of, used to wear every day, and…
RT @PeterBrannen1: @yayitsrob Pandemic-mediated fashion fractionation seen in sedimentary fomites (Meyer, 2020)
RT @AntonJaegermm: Trotsky was right, after all, that "Americanism marks the true dividing line between the Middle Ages and the modern worl…
The clash at Mars la Tour that halted French westward retreat from Metz was intensely bloody. 31k casualties in a single day! Lethal artillery and rifle fire taking terrible toll. Huge shock to both sides. twitter.com/Krieg7071/stat…
RT @tobiaschneider: @adam_tooze @OspreyBooks The Musée de l'Armée at the Hotel des Invalides periodically hosts some really fascinating exh…
@Misanfrog Nor in Wawro … such an issue with military history publishing in general. @OspreyBooks consistently does a good job.
For a short military history of Franco-Prussian war in which the maps do not make you want to scream with frustration, highly recommend Stephen Badsey @OspreyBooks Essential History. Have this to hand when you are reading others & you have a hope of figuring out what is going on https://t.co/Wp8D6EKp6A
$ trade weighted value is still above its end-2019 level. Slight depreciation v. AE & appreciation v EM – which itself was similar to its end-2018 level. @sobel_mark of @OMFIF Cooly weighs the “dollar rout”. omfif.org/2020/08/exagge… https://t.co/34MpSMyuwk
Four good reads on the Franco-Prussian war/19th Prussian military history, in English: G. Ritter, The Sword and the Scepter Vol I Howard, The Franco-Prussian War Wawro, The Franco-Prussian War Hull, Absolute Destruction @BuddNicholas https://t.co/k1feH8uSRb
RT @LawDavF: @adam_tooze @NewLeftReview @wstreeckblog Actually think Engels was pretty orthodox in his views on military strategy. When he…
Ten days after the bloody battle of woerth most of the bodies are finally buried but the locals are still cleaning up. twitter.com/Krieg7071/stat…
1886-1888 Aime Morot produced a series of astonishing paintings commemorating Franco-Prussian war. He appears to have had support of General Staff to study cavalry movement. Paris Salon 1887 opined: "Meissonnier’s cavalry charges are still-life pictures by comparison” https://t.co/Jg1os5sy87
Genius material on a 1949, British vision of a spacesuit! twitter.com/OptimoPrincipi…
1870-2020: Kudos to @NewLeftReview for publishing, in this anniversary year of Franco-Prussian war, a useful reminder by @wstreeckblog that Frederick Engels was an innovative materialist thinker of the means of destruction. SO MUCH more to say on this! newleftreview.org/issues/II123/a… https://t.co/LGQAXXl8bD
Aug 16 1870 Mars-La-Tour battle: Last major cavalry clashes of West European military history. Bismarck believes both his sons had been killed in fighting. In fact Herbert wounded. Wilhelm had horse shot from under him. Paining by Aime Morot (1886) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aim%C3%A9… https://t.co/LVS8b5zsQR
@daniel_dsj2110 @JacksonYale Ill post when my redesigned website goes up next week.
@jesushjones1 Had virtually no control over this. Had more to do with Auftragstaktik.
In general, in Franco-Prussian war Germans enjoyed numerical superiority, thanks to rapid mobilization. But, this not enough to explain decisive v. attritional victory. At key moments e.g. Mars-La-Tour Aug 16 1870 Prussians fought vastly outnumbered to achieve maneuver victory. https://t.co/MpEM4dKNmB
August 16 1870: Having marched furiously to the West to prevent French retreat out of Metz, at Mars-La-Tour the Prussian army has its David v. Goliath moment: One German Corps, outnumbered 4:1, acting autonomously confronts entire French Army of Rhine and stops it in its tracks! https://t.co/dEVxZKhy2u
Time’s Monster. How History Makes History What a GREAT title for @PriyaSatia forthcoming on history and the British Empire. @Harvard_Press hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?is… https://t.co/KiuBaxxIMn
August 16 1870 was perhaps last day of classic cavalry action in WEST European history. In "death ride" Bredow's cavalry brigade sacrificed to shore up position of Prussian III corps that is being ground down by overwhelming French numerical superiority. twitter.com/Krieg7071/stat…
RT @DuncanWeldon: Using the entirely unrepresentative sample of “people I was at school with”. The level of anger over the A-level stuff fr…
History of the Present: interesting by @daniel_dsj2110 on history’s answer to the present crisis. On that @JacksonYale course that D inherited (after Snyder?), I had Malthus, anthropocene, Latour, Beck, history of HIV/AIDS. Good mental gym for 2020. chronicle.com/article/beyond… https://t.co/wxR4XaIcWh
RT @tomstreithorst: One of the most interesting episodes described in @michaelxpettis and @M_C_Klein Trade Wars are Class Wars is the effec…
RT @JuddLegum: Here's the deal on the United States Military: it's just a bad business! Poorly run. Loses trillions. If it were any other b…
Piłsudski converses with General Edward Śmigły-Rydz during counter attack that will drive Red Army out of Poland August/September 1920. Zaloga, Steven J.. Warsaw 1920 (Campaign) (Kindle Location 1553). Bloomsbury Publishing. Kindle Edition. https://t.co/zOk7BHMYFo
“Miracle on the Vistula”: Having sucked Soviets to West in fierce fighting around Warsaw, early in am 16 August 1920 Pilsudski unleashes 50,000 strong two-pronged counter attack into flank and rear of Soviet army from base in South around Lublin -> devastating shock to Red army. https://t.co/DgbZFe9Z24
2020: The year where Tesla overtook market cap 1st of VW and then Toyota. thedailyshot.com/2020/08/14/ame… https://t.co/rG4VR4bLoH
RT @Harvard_Press: This coming Monday, August 17 at 7pm EST, join historians @ruthbenghiat and Victoria de Grazia as they discuss The Perfe…
Global tech and healthcare stocks have diverged from the rest of the market. @bcaresearch via @SoberLook thedailyshot.com/2020/08/14/ame… https://t.co/B2Yhrxs1Is
@FreedomGeoFin @LynAldenContact Yeah I have @LynAldenContact in my dedicated COVID feed. Great stuff.
What made the Miracle on the Vistula possible was tying down Red Army to North of Warsaw, exposing them to Pilsudski’s counterattack from South Eastern flank. It was hair-raising balancing of force to which holding Modlin was key. twitter.com/prchovanec/sta…
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