The Short War Assumption - Nicholas Lambert

[@danesorensen1775]

So big business starts losing money, and the British government immediately switches track on its strategy. They change their mind not for the 50,000 young lives lost in the BEF, but for businessmen who've started losing money. That tells you everything you need to know about the human beast.

[@kitten-inside]

If big business is in trouble, the country is -- 100 years ago, and today. There is a reason behind all the bailouts for badly run companies. And this was not for badly run companies, this was the government's own doing that needed to be fixed.

[@StoutProper]

All war is about business

[@StoutProper]

@@kitten-inside nonsense. The only people who are in trouble are the wealthy elite managers and owners who governments serve

[@claudeyaz]

The 50000 lost is a big deal as well...50000 less tax payers. Plus the potrbtisk of losing Gov power

[@claudeyaz]

Plus. Idk if nations would exist if not for the need of a unified nation for credit. What holds the USA together? Religion? Nah..Race? Nah. Language? Nope. Shared history, Citizenship, and economy hold it together. So it isn't just about greed and the devaluation of life...but about how important the economy is. Currently, all of us live in the post World War II United States of America, it's a karma secured free trade system. Before this, you had to have an Empire, or if an Empire, were be friends with an Empire, to be able to trade. Supply lines, and securing supply lines have been the cause of so many wars over the last couple 100 years. But because we do not have to worry about it, we are spoiled to be able to say something like, "people only care about money and not about human life," Shows how the idea of trade being being a privilege is gone. We sort of just order something from Amazon expect it flown over to the country within a week. So instead of thinking that trade is privilege and something we are lucky to have, we think it is just the standard. But the USA has been pulling back From sea security since the end of the cold war. That is how, the absolute dis the absolute disaster, of China taking over the small islands, and building islands, when Americans had sacrifice tens of thousands of lives to secure those islands. It's. Now we have let another animation other animation take over and puts airstrips there. So so foolish

[@TheWorstThingEver]

Good lecture!

[@kevinbyrne4538]

5:48 -- Dr. John Arquilla of the Naval Postgraduate School at Monterey, California, coined the term "Brits-Krieg".

[@williamarthurfenton1496]

Hardly a highly imaginative pun is it. It seems rather likely many people have impressively independently came up with it.

[@tcm81]

@@williamarthurfenton1496 yeah. KZbin geniuses like you.

[@gandydancer9710]

You mean he couldn't come up with something as imaginative as something ending in "-gate"? It seems anyway to have ended in a damp squib as soon as the politicians' owners found out about it. hardly analogous to any so-called "blitzkrieg".

[@flashgordon6670]

A bloke called Archie Duke, shot an Ostrich bc he was hungry.

[@flashgordon6670]

A bloke called Archie Duke, shot an Ostrich bc he was hungry.

[@ceciljohnrhodes4987]

Very, very, interesting.

[@rolandrothwell4840]

Thanks for helping me with my history PGCE

[@joeokabayashi8669]

Great narrative, but had to "look away" as speaker's metronomic swaying is motion sickness inducing.

[@jezalb2710]

It is not

[@flashgordon6670]

He used to work as an entertainer on fishing trawlers.

[@jh4533]

Anybody have a link to the article mentioned at 48:25? Or at least the publication?

[@paulbabcock2428]

Goldrick also has a book on the British navy switching from coal to oil.

[@StoutProper]

@@paulbabcock2428 isn’t that why the British including Churchill was so concerned with the Germans Baghdad railway?

[@flashgordon6670]

Yes, the internet.

[@leosnijders4954]

Well said sir. Britain was well prepared with military materials and equipment in Belgium warehouses. Navy in position. Blockade of German and Austrian harbors 1904-1919.

[@gandydancer9710]

What on earth are you babbling on about?

[@RKarmaKill]

Something must be wrong with the floor stability behind the podium

[@StoutProper]

I think he’s had a drink

[@michaelcurcio4025]

Bryan,not Bryant.

[@RoadmanRob8]

When are we all going to fucking wake up.

[@Bob.W.]

You've obviously haven't had leg and back problems. :)

[@richardpope3063]

A footslogger in the grand old style.

[@bjorntorlarsson]

I don't get it at all, how an economic chock would harm Germany more than Britain and its allies. This guy makes no sense. "The great depression 1931"? Not 1929? The sources of Wikipedia seem to disagree, alot: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_daily_changes_in_the_Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average#Largest_percentage_changes What is this nonsense?

[@thomasjamison2050]

1929 was the NYSE crash. The world wide depression took some time to brew up.

[@neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819]

Björn Larsson it was only when confidence in the banking system was lost did the Wall Street Crash become the Great Depression. The introduction of protectionist trade policies in America spread what was mainly an American problem worldwide.

[@danielharnden516]

Björn Larsson I think what you missed is that the New York stock exchange shut down for 4 months in July 1914. Pretty drastic even though New York was not the financial hub it is today

[@johnsmith-mv8hq]

The 1929 was the NYC crash. There is general agreement that the 1931 financial crisis in Germany was a key event in deepening the Great Depression internationally.

[@henrikswedish378]

Ivar Krüger died in 1931 , it had massive concequences for the world.