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[Oscarito]

OK, stirring...
WW1 + WW2 = WW
Some historians are already considering that there was indeed a single war ("Clash of Ideas"), with an interim two decades long armistice.The term "German War" has been suggested. Also, they say this conflict did not finish in 1945 but in 1989 (fall of Berlin Wall meaning the ultimate defeat of Comunism) which means that the Cold War is considered as a kind of "Continuation War", with a new protagonist that inherited the objectives from his former enemy (anthropophagi?)
In this sense the 20th century can be regarded as a seventy years century (August 1914 - November 1989) featuring the "German War" and the "Communist Experiment" as background for everything else.

[Gaston]

And still... the world has not become more sure since 1989... it has become even worse, with one only super-power, with nothing in front to retain it ! it has lost all equilibrium since the end of the cold war !

[Typhoon Ib]

And still... the world has not become more sure since 1989... it has become even worse, with one only super-power, with nothing in front to retain it ! it has lost all equilibrium since the end of the cold war !

true dat.
look, we are now able to drop bombs on wedding parties because

-we have toy planes and dno not need to risk our big fat butts (who's gonna hold you back then?)
-we aint givin no shit. The dudes that ordered the strike will get a reprimand, not the execution comitee.

What is even scarier, the other big parties a la China, india EU and Middle east are starting to walk the same path.
War is not over.
The winners are winning even more, while the losers get even less.

compare that to a thousand Bomber raid, where accuracy was a friggin Joke.
The Big ones (Gov'ts n all) got us by the balls, and the small ones aint got no balls, barely any means, to stop this nonsense.
And then we shove this Propaganda down the throats of our Kids. (country X did well against all odds! country X! saved the world! Blah)

Homo sapiens sapiens wut R u Doin!
STAHP!

[Valkas]

Homo sapiens sapiens wut R u Doin!
STAHP!

Welcome to postmodern society. I'm afraid that's just the way our species will be rolling next several centuries, untill some other big thing will emerge.

By the way, I am only one noticing that war documentaries from 80's and 70's (even soviet ones) were in some ways a lot more balanced than those newest? At least back then you could clearly identify point of view and ideology that stands behind the show. Nowdays, after watching some stuff from History chanell or that Russian chanell with a red star on its logo you are left with bitter taste on your tongue and clear feeling that somebody just tried to gently rape your mind - and you are unsure wheather they succeeded or not.

[Phas3e]

The best docos I can recall are the BBC's 'The Great War' and 'World at war' both old but both are well detailed.

Also for an aviation theme, check out "4 Years of Thunder"

[Gaston]

French TV serie of the late '60s- early '70s "Les Grandes Batailles", by Daniel Costelle and Henri De Turenne, is excellent. Perhaps even better that the BBC's "The World At War"...