The French are sure the British are going to abandon them. You know. They will remember that these men were sons of their nation. And that war was so terrable, not just that were the entire napoleonic wars in the wars of the french revolution. Is it if it only takes your opponent fifteen days to do the same thing this, strange the ability to negotiate your way out of this situation? and the belgian slaughter them slaughter them. So he fired him. Atrocities tend to happen. The ultimatum is one of those documents you can look at throughout history. Anyone he says with con, occasion in the last years to observe the relation of Austria to Serbia. If war comes in three years, we're going to be in a much worse situation than we are now, it's here. The women will make tents and clothes and serving hospitals. it's hard to believe it hasn't been romanticized to some degree, but nevertheless, if you ever do the definitive, screen dramatization of world war, one the whole story, I think you, of nineteen and twenty year old, guys at a table. Kerry. The romance was incredible this, is the era where that romance runs into reality, in a way that you just can't pretend I mean guys like, William Tecumseh Sherman, the civil war general for the? us on Twitter the address is at hardcore history. russian forces in the Franco Prussian WAR of eighteen, seventy eighteen, seventy one by this, period he's retired and he's on the speaking circuit in one thousand nine hundred and six, he speaks to the german legislature and he warns them what a modern war is going to be, like quote, the age of cabinet war is behind us. We use cookies to enhance your experience, analyze site traffic, and serve tailored ads. The newspapers were full of them. if they intervene, intervening on the right side. I thought she did a very balanced job, and so did Neil Ferguson Ferguson. You can again something that the Germans weren't quite getting when the 20th century was brand new, that they would get. Famine, epidemics, general barbarism. Everybody was in this together and, to combine the willingness to throw human life you know, they're on the battlefield in almost endless numbers you didn't have to pay these people either. Its sold effectively as our version of The 4th of July (the BlueJays surely have the date booked with MLB as a perennial home game). Series Link. These are essentially naval guns in size. Alan public opinion, almost overnight on a dime, as the british Prime Minister Herbert ask. Belgium, like a shooting war breaks out between a couple of, thing, one of the gangsters does is turn to the side and kills an innocent bystander because they're standing in their way, that's a little like what this is portrayed as by you know. End quote: Oh there's, your silver lining. Once a professional radio host, Carlin eventually took his shows to the web, and he now hosts two critically acclaimed independent podcasts: Common Sense and Hardcore History.Hardcore History, which has more than 3 million downloads, was nominated in 2012 for a Stitcher Award in the Best Educational & Learning . Under a single king they created the greatest empire the world had ever seen. Yet there will be by the time this war is over, but they're a novelty they'll be used in strange, innovative situations, but militaries of the world don't have tons of automobiles in a running. You have to imagine a state where the entire underpinnings of the state of been broken down, including especially the army, and then all of me, Russia, Russia, Austria, Great Britain. Show 55 - Blueprint for Armageddon VI. It's nothing. This show examines the dangerous early years of the Nuclear Age and humankind's efforts to avoid self-destruction at the hands of its own creation. lesson number one is how deadly the weapons are and how you have to account for that. His jockstrap is what we used to say. They were always worried about being encircled will look at them on a map. The Russians are shocking. 'cause we're going to go to war with the Russians if they don't demobilize. What does it do that? He knew that Europe was a powder keg and the key. Churchill thought it could mean the loss of the entire war. If there were a Japanese version of Captain America, this would be his origin story. Just last weekend it wasn't there. They're, going to wear red, pants and blue jackets, and, I carry sabers in their calvary's, going to have breast plates and horse hair helmets. Countries are huge, glorious thing that you should look forward to, and now they're saying wait a minute: how glorious is it to be one of many people, mowed down by machine guns in or just sort of randomly, They don't want to go on the assault again, and this attack, starts to bog down after it starts now there's, Who's roaming around the battlefield, who normally is in Berlin with the high general staff of the german military, the germ, encourage their staff members to get out in the. Those who, today he writes shower the viennese government with reproaches on the form and content of this ultimatum. In the Kaiser this is controversial, but traditionally the Kaiser was supposed to have told the Austrians to go for it. From Germany's point of view, the first thing. This is a barber, with mobilization and you get an idea of how planned every step is in the german army quote, once the mobilization button was pushed the whole vast machinery for calling up, equipping and transporting two million men began turning automatically reserve, went to their designated depots, were issued uniforms equipment an arms formed into. Error of warfare was the kind of warfare where you know the lead. You know government, The Russians had been defeated by Napoleon. They control. He a lot more than that. and stay out of the work as they don't have a heart alliance with anyone. WARNING Very intense subject matter. Tion of armies and masses provoked by sheer desperation, Street in commerce ending in general bankruptcy. Many of their contemporaries wish they'd die faster. If you happen to be a communist revolutionary and you want to see the overthrow of governments and in one sense angles will get what he wants, at least in one country, but, military minds. The Blueprint for Armageddon has been your best podcast yet! When the news of the murder of Archduke Francis Ferdinand arrived in Munich, going to be sitting at home and heard of it only vaguely, I was at. You need him to, and these guns weigh a ton. So there wasn't a lot of stuff to really counter. Madden's the Germans, 'cause they're on this tight schedule right so now, road system that was already going to be clogged terribly mean. The entire continents is going to be flaming out at each other. back in the grenade. He said that the, government was terrable to a degree just for a word neutrality, a word which in wartime it so often been disregarded just for a scrap of paper, Britain was going to make war on a kindred nation who desired nothing better than to be friends with her all, efforts in that direction had been rendered useless by this last terrible step, as I knew he had devoted himself since is a session to office had tumbled down like a house of cards. Blueprint for Armageddon series not shown in rss feed. Seven years or thirty years, duration and woe to him who sets your a polite, who first put the few, heavyweight championship fight. You know into some sort of hard agreement for what they're gonna do if this war breaks out in five minutes, because they don't have a heart agreement with the British, they sort of have a soft agreement instead, a signed on the dotted line contract. Thank you for putting your material online. Ever since roman times, it's the same area about a hundred and twenty mile front that. it didn't work and the people in charge of it were guys like VON Moltke, who said. 3:09:41. All around the Neil Ferguson said they weren't. One, Declared you have seventy two hours where everybody's trying to get their heads around this idea, switches for mobilization the doomsday device. Yet in this story, the Belgians are but an appetizer, modern warfare between the great powers on the planet. This. December, seventh, nineteen, forty one, it's history, a date which will live in in for me, one thanks for the more, in the words the in the in the complete this time, because I am a nation because people don't know whether or not their president's. Now the weapons are destroyed a lot, cavalry, could do so forest strip down the, with cavalry to the bare minimum. Dan Carlin's Hardcore History. The person who was closest to the whole thing was count VON, who, who was, great of a job, apparently at security and he, first, the car- and he later testified- this quote, As the car quickly reversed, a thin stream of blood spurted from his highness's mouth onto my right, cheek. Fighting armies, like this one, Richard Harding Davis, writes quote, the entrance of the german army into Brussels has lossed the human quality it was. This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Twelve pound cannonballs, twelve pound cannonballs. Some user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. Subscribe to the show and get . In. Ok, maybe what do I do now? Imagining sixteen year old, girls being quote, forced to drink and quote and then, what violated successively and quote on the lawn before having their breasts quote, pierced with bayonets and quote, bayoneted baby Ferguson says was another favorite image. During this time period it might, International incidents which could have led to war previously didn't, but now are because the leadership sucks. You can see how a bunch of nations that really didn't deserve a lot of the perks that. John F Kennedy assassination, for example, And imagine that, in addition to Lee Harvey Oswald up at the Texas School Book Depository, you have a, another assassin on the grassy knoll is has sometimes been suggested and that, in this JFK assassination attempt. You had to assume that the French would come in at some time, and the only thing you had a plan to deal with was to attack the french first. Keep up the awesome work Dan and Ben! get to that belgian road system that you need to get from Germany to France. Blueprint for Armageddon IV (2:58:48). before. It doesn't matter how much effort they put into defense, they can't win, You know the Belgians, totally unprepared for warfare lose only a little bit faster than the Belgians obsessively prepared for warfare they put, trust in these international agreements. Jellicoe commanded the greatest fleet the world had ever seen. The Austro Hungarians, declare war on July 28th exactly one month after the assassination and they're shelling Belgrade. What came after, and twenty four hours later is still coming. So if you go into war with Russia, you get to attack France as part of the bar again. about seventy percent of the world at this time period. Gray Harding thinks is the most fantastic. Bear is no swarm of locusts has ever done before that. Thirty, nine? Because if someone really knows what to do with it and does good things with it, you kind of say to yourself on the other, a bit of a roll of the dice, isn't it as often as you get one of those people you get somebody who's, evil or cruel or insane some people, history of rolled very badly on the dice far too many times, but it creates good hardcore history work. Slaughtering their front ranks company after, spaces in between the forts, where the belgian entrenchments had not been completed at some, point where they broke through the German, stormed up the slopes where the guns could not be depressed to reach them and were mowed down by the forts machine guns the day, piled up in ridge is a yard high at Fort BAR shown that, shins, seeing the german lines waiver charged. Here's the thing, though there were, bought. Imagine them toppling today's US government and beginning to govern. Most of us do that utilized the road system think about, But the road system in Belgium, tiny little. If any of the major powers, except maybe Russia, in. We will keep fighting for all libraries - stand with us! This is a great account of the great war, and the best part is free, Its very easy to find out any matter on net as compared to books, as I found this post at this site. The first thing, to keep reminding myself about the german empire during this era. on March 17, 2022, There are no reviews yet. Color, there's nothing like it, tend to believe human beings are programmed to react to that specific color. That's the only thing they care about cuts and it doesn't work to have banned, offense is well, the French would say yes well, it doesn't work, for the French and that's why we have a great military. You have nothing to replace that mobility with, but these cavalry commanders don't want to hear that it's even worse than it used to be wow, Rachel, the modern artillery and machine guns get ahold of your cavalry. And show them some history books and show them what it happened. They took three steps at times. I don't think the Germans have recovered from that image. Gentlemanly warfare, if there's ever been such a thing. The United Nations set free from austrian domination and quote. And mechanization that can be brought to bear, stating when used against tribal peoples and nations, that, things going to show what a tiny little army of chocolate soldiers is, what the Germans thought they were going to face, a tiny little armia chocolate soldiers can do to the greatest army in the world because of the deadly, the interesting sort of sub themes of this whole upcoming conflict is how long it takes some, old, to absorb the lessons that are being taught in this conflict. We've never done before 'cause, it's crazy hard for us to do and went back. I just set a confederate, Moseley, allegedly legendarily, said by a guy named Nathan, Bedford, Forrest and, controversial figure even today, but that's not unusual among confederate generals and it's not, first is maybe in a class by himself, but he's not, controversy when it comes to acknowledging his military genius he's one of the best. They also thought that you treat noncombatants harshly and. I thought about this when I was thinking about yeah. Is there aren't really automobiles? Start the wiki. the very short window of opportunity. We have thanks for everything folks. Guy, whose name is Archduke Franz Ferdinand-. Ferguson writes quote but. Do you think they might have been seeing in their minds? have the maximum gun, in fact, much more deadly modern versions of the maxim gun that we call machine guns today, no one had ever seen a war where both sides had machine guns. The great, friend of the Slavs, had fallen beneath the bullets of slavic fanatics. If you look at the Magino line, which comes a generation after this, obviously, but it's the same, kind of thing works. German, hire that will be blamed for everything. But 99 years later the dam breaks and a Pandora's Box of violence engulfs the planet. A price was on our heads today. rested on firm foundations. While you waited to negotiate putting the pin back in the grenade, you have that kind of time. Trench warfare begins, and with it, all the murderous efforts on both sides to overcome the static defenses. December 29, 2014 1 Song, 4 hours, 29 minutes 2014 Dan Carlin's Hardcore History. When do spirit, tenacity, resilience and bravery cross into madness? So he says, one way or another. You'll have rail guns that are that large to same problem, though, how do you get him from place to place they're, so big they're, so heavy the larger? Every episode of Blueprint for Armageddon has that moment several times. this time period had at least five first. The weapons that are on the way from Germany to. The first experiment in this hypothesis of, being the violence out of societies is on the way. They couldn't re raise armies. Answer is there on the way the British are in the, process. If you were, light illumination. snipers were there, people paid the price left right and center. Show 54 - Blueprint for Armageddon V. Politics, diplomacy, revolution and mutiny take center stage at the start of this episode, but mud, blood, shells and tragedy drown all by the end. They have the, staying out of this thing if they want to the, they were on the invasion list there on the dinner menu for Imperial Germany and they're. Much. How strain, really ironic, though, that the people that are so, danced in those areas could have so many blind spots in areas that one would think are related to the higher culture aspects. I ventured out on a tour of inspection on the external slopes, which. Machine guns, barbed wire and millions upon millions of artillery shells create industrialized meat grinders at Verdun and the Somme. Accuracy is not guaranteed. You know in the my. He adds great depth of emotion, emphasis on the importance of certain actions and will not let you gloss over the facts of "Man's inhumanity to Man". pledge of your good behavior and will consider you out of this war, that is, impossible for the french government to do as the demands on Serbia WAR. What's important is what is the, People on the ground affected by this think was happening. While an odds-maker in Las Vegas would certainly have the British Navy the heavy favorite to defeat their German counterparts in a general fleet battle, the Germans were still perhaps the second most dangerous navy in the world. By continuing to browse or closing this banner, you consent to our, Show 59 - (Blitz) The Destroyer of Worlds. One inches the. that they had this sort of paranoia about being encircled. What do you. Didn't have that power for all. Parliament to legislate, of Britain has the power then like they have the power now, but that. If we were ranking groups from nineteen fourteen would probably call terrorist groups like, called the black hand, and these groups had ties sometimes to the serbian intelligence service. The very mocked, a big heavy, hitter knockout artist and they go around and it's just boom it's over in one round sometimes, and you stand up and it's thrilling an incredible, but in a, someone hits them back and or or beat them up a little. The pub, firearms of suitable caliber should be turned over to the troops. We did something with this program. Track your ranks and reviews from Spotify, Apple Podcasts and more. Was an active state, sponsored terrorism. historians again. comment. Sized Army probably ever put together trying to march through it all in a short period of time. Where the romance of warfare you Wichita, and strong in human culture was probably at its height. That sounds like a lot, yet this show merely scratches the surface of this enormous subject. For more information, please see our Winston Churchill said that there was only one man on either side of the First World War who could lose the war in an afternoon. Keep his cavalry live on. two people and he did so in a way that almost makes you believe in fate. To portray, as the modern day version of the Huns. Is one of their number comes in the door, sits down at the table with them and has a package with him, and he opens up the, package, and inside is only one thing. Most militaries are moving away from that the Germans use. All these powers in Europe Attack France at the same time and you're stuck with I mean, like, a bit of your army leftover, the artillery stayed with the people, so the old french artillery was good, but you've got this mishmash of an army with officers. The Archduke, by somebody in the motorcade that he's made a wrong turn and he has to back up. All these other things little HOLLAND to them looks like they've. So guys, like angle, tell you that you know because, that formula and they believe in that formula you can't have a war and what the british, turning to find out. Nobody wants to hear that machine guns just rip guts out. It's hard core history. Nothing else can do and it moves people, faster than anything else can do so. and to be in the way the Germans had come up with a plan. No, I'm not a huge on Keegan fan, but as, his world war, one and world war, two histories- and he wrote about this guns arrival outside the fortune said quote. rape of Belgium, I should point out a little bit is a. Propagandists fantasy, I mean they've made it into practically a movie. Smack dab in the Balkans. The hostages were massed in the square shot down by execution squads and survivors bayoneted. A couple of these forts by the way and when, find those the Germans were first on the scene say that they look, like quote, miniature alpine landscape with debris strewn about like pebbles in a mountain stream heavy. the high number you usually see, is seven hundred and fifty thousand men. This war is going to take us there and it's going to pound the point home till you're, sick of it, After the failure of that german attack on the belgian defenses, the Germans regroup to attack again that same night August, fifth, there, weaknesses who were with the troops describe them as nervous and anxious, and gloomy about the prospects of assaulting. That's tiny, but that has so much, SIRI. (Much of the debt taken on by Newfoundland had been to finance its participation in The War.) Ferguson is forced to deal with the reality of the situation that this. The eighth struck home, then the gun fell silent for the night, but the, this morning joined by the other, which is completed. latter part of the eighteen hundred people focused on militarism and the building of these amazingly technologically deadly armaments and the race for power? mutation in terms of global public opinion, I mean there's always been people who call Germany, this evil malevolent militaristic country and what have you, but on the world stage as soon as the Germans invade Belgium, they partici, right in the most aggressive act so far by any of the major powers in this conflict. Also available in the iTunes Store. countries, could actually have fun going to war war or something you just sort of did like pheasant hunting, at least in the minds of some of these guys. I've always thought, for example, that, somewhat random, that millions of people going about their lives in their own ways with trend, forces, acting upon them and people in important positions, making decisions and all this together creates a dynamic. We use, He essentially had an elite unit of mounted infantry and he would transport these, people too vulnerable and important spots, tactically important area. And then having the world spiral out of control, despite what the major players may have wanted. Are they working for a larger entity today we would ask whether or not they were an example of state sponsored terrorism. web pages realm of global public opinion because of their behavior, hey, here that the Germans will use all throughout this war and again in the second World war, tendency to ignore neutrality. He said he was watching some german cavalry where ride by and he could see the horses, but he couldn't see the guys on them because they just sort of blend with the fog in the mist in the twilight and the early morning hours in that color he goes on and on about how great that is and how cyantific it is. We figure, the assassin is working with the intelligence service for most, that outrageous, a thing to consider when you. The allied, this Belgium thing you can imagine so much so that it incense people like Adolf Hitler who, so far behind the British and the french leader, the Americans then, did in the in the realm of propaganda. A few people at, Kaiser sign a guy known as the crown prince would say that Bell, Jim's when the Germans lost the first great battle of the war, but they didn't lose, on the battlefield they crash, the Belgians. Many of their contemporaries wish they'd die faster. power and Britain was at the height of everybody's financial power. There's no doubt about that, and some of them were direct. takes forever and is an amazing engineering feat just to get these guns to where they need to be. all fields are on the way the appetizers over. Serb nationalists and the Serbs are very, very patriotic, even today, even more so back in nineteen. Your current browser isn't compatible with SoundCloud. At the same time and, german general staff had figured out a way to not just survive that situation, but to win, further constrained the amount of negotiation room you had before the grenade went off, The timing involved, taking advantage of the fact that everyone thought the Russians were going to take forever to mobilize the, ins were seen as a giant somewhat clumsy colossus, less organized than the Germans and the french and people like that, and so. This is like, for Europe, and no one knows how long the drop is going to be and they. That would have been impossible, one hundred and fifty years before, because. What's going on in this guy had a particular interest in this battle because he was one of the people who planned it. Ok, do we shoot through these bodies and create? Dan Carlin (born November 14, 1965) is an American podcaster and political commentator. You know. These guns were pulverising for, that were built to withstand the guns of just a generation before and doing so with ease, that's a demonstration, How much things have changed just since the 1880s and think of how.
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