Today's the 100th anniversary of the formal American declaration of war against Germany. Within days, the National Guard began patrols of the Boston waterfront to guard against German spies - Boston being a key Atlantic port, of course.
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Collectivité d'Outre-mer de Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon
By theszak
Thu, 04/06/2017 - 11:30am
Of note... Collectivité d'Outre-mer de Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon remain French territory in North America
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Pierre_and_Miq...
Not sure if traitorous or
By Turtlegeuse
Thu, 04/06/2017 - 4:48pm
Not sure if traitorous or serendipitous, but I just read this while eating a big piece of sweet delicious German chocolate cake. I swear I didn't enjoy it.
Had we not intervened in this European war and stayed neutral ..
By Ron Newman
Thu, 04/06/2017 - 11:19pm
perhaps the outcome and resulting peace treaty would have been more even-handed, and the subsequent horrors of Nazism avoided?
Neutrality, turned out to be difficult to define and maintain...
By theszak
Thu, 04/06/2017 - 11:36pm
>"Neutrality, however, turned out to be difficult to define and maintain. The dilemma was how to remain neutral without inflicting serious damage on the American economy https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/world...
A racket
By perruptor
Fri, 04/07/2017 - 7:36am
I believe the best assessment of WWI, and of war in general, was provided by General Smedley Butler, in his brutally honest War is a Racket. It's not a long book, and it's free to read. During his life, Butler was the most-decorated Marine in history. There is no one who knows war better than he did, and nothing much has happened since his death that would have changed his mind.
Evolutionary purpose of war, like disease, control populations
By theszak
Fri, 04/07/2017 - 11:41am
War may serve an evolutionary purpose like disease. War controls populations.
Take that, Edwin Starr
By Michael
Fri, 04/07/2017 - 12:20pm
Say it again!
Maybe not
By perruptor
Fri, 04/07/2017 - 3:38pm
Sociobiology, The New Synthesis by Edward O. Wilson
By theszak
Fri, 04/07/2017 - 7:45pm
Sociobiology, The New Synthesis by Edward O. Wilson
https://books.google.com/books?id=v7lV9tz8fXAC&pri...
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