Talk:Military history
From Academic Kids
Conscription has been one of the fundamentals of many political organisation (think of the Athenian 'Pyle', the Roman farmer-soldier, the Saxon 'Fyrd', etc. Josh will probably know some better examples) Please correct me, but conscription is more ancient than the professional soldiery, which, if I remember correctly, was introduced in Rome by Marius in the second (or first?) century B.C. -- Mathijs
- maybe not so much conscription as the EXPECTATION of universal service for those eligible. That seems to be true of hoplite warfare. The Romans practiced conscription in the Punic wars, though I don't know if we know how they handled it. --MichaelTinkler
Feb 26 2002: wondering if the list of generals should be elsewhere, or at least classified by conflicts. --Christopher mahan
- I can see a problem with classifying by conflict -- lots of duplicate links...Just think of Kitchener, Gordon, Patton, Custer.... JHK
- Hum, I've been seeing plural entries beginning to pop up here and there that are just lists of links. I'm not sure if I really like the practice, but I do see the utility of such a scheme. Would an article named Famous generals be out of line? --maveric149
Feb 27 2002: I think that if there is an article for famous generals (or Famous military commanders) there needs to be a minimal summary for each, such as conflicts involved in and life defining events. --Christopher Mahan
- Sounds good to me. --maveric149
Some "purposes" for military history are given in this article. Would the "discouragement of war" be considered another reason to study military history? That's the key reason I like reading military history. Or is military history a bit too jingoistic to properly support pacifism? EmRick
- It could be a reason, but are there more besides yourself? There could be all kinds of reasons to study it, but we only want to list the ones with significant numbers of people. H.G. Wells perhaps? Stan 07:31, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC)
