Do you think. Color, there's nothing like it, tend to believe human beings are programmed to react to that specific color. Again. The Belgians have it so that they're going to put guys in trenches so between. Is you know I'm reminded of the old Godzilla films in the monster, zero films, where you have some planet and it would, a gun that would just rise up from the planet, surface, shoot and then go back down underground and that's what happened in these sports, cool that is. zone period from the end of the archdukes assassination to the ultimatum by Serbia, with the British are starting to find out. exposed to a lot of thinking out there by guys, like Norman Angle, we mentioned earlier, who are saying no one's going to jump, jumping would be suicidal everybody died, the golden goose would be killed, globalization would be destroyed, no one will do it, and now they had just done it. The first thing, to keep reminding myself about the german empire during this era. It's interesting to note: isn't it that Bell. They then shift, to another fort, which surrenders five hours later one. What's bearing down on the small british forces landed on the continent, and this french force who. Often relegated to the role of slavish cannon fodder for Sparta's spears, the Achaemenid Persian empire had a glorious heritage. Places all over the world what's going on sort of a factor of just, been there for a while. anybody who'd actually been present when the thinkers who dealt with the doomsday device explained, what the doomsday device did understood that, the trigger on this thing was pulled. You know it at separate, where they overlap so they're getting brighter and darker in it. power and Britain was at the height of everybody's financial power. just remind myself how young these people are not old enough. the French had a different kind of society, one that was supposed to be run by the very you know: low born people. The to the government of Serbia. As, Michaels, you run up against him in there tough and that, used to shatter all the propaganda, it's better to say that these evil? are. That sounds like a lot, yet this show merely scratches the surface of this enormous subject. She writes everything. As we said, this is what makes it the greatest mistake, though, potentially in all german history. You know. to run into what is probably the second greatest army in the world, France, Terry Force most experienced military force in the world. Going to be a little brutal for a while the guys like VON Moltke. Perhaps, Princep in his compatriots would have thought that you know. Is an artillery officer he's known for its use on the battlefield? within that nine hundred and fifty or so our window, the time, the german smash their way through those forts. You have. If you been. Who's already got an inferiority complex. Take on anyone in the world in the first time you see him in action. The entire continents is going to be flaming out at each other. They will remember that these men were sons of their nation. 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. We have listening, but that's going to be. Think about that for a second, before field marshal. Holy freaking amazing! The Atlantic Slave Trade mixes centuries of human bondage with violence, economics, commerce, geo-political competition, liberty, morality, injustice, revolution, tragedy and bloody reckonings. clarity and accuracy actually, and hopefully we, better program out of it new and improved version, two whatever you want to say. The only problem is that those highways neutrality is guaranteed by the british government and, have been for seventy five years. It's going to depend on what happens. I mean this is a generation that is absolutely infused with the ideas of nationalism and that dying for you. artillery and ammunition had been thrown everywhere. A position to decide to go or not to go to war that seems to put them in the driver's seat. Doesn't you don't want it lit up? I mean, if, if Gov, a nine hundred eleven attack ever and if that was, all he did wouldn't be important. He writes to transform mass warfare into total war, was the technology. End quote. 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. Is that the eras of, and in May one thousand nine hundred and forty. Old this world is that is marching into the twentieth century. and in Britain have no excuse to say well, french file. Episode 53 Blueprint for Armageddon IVNow Available! You know we're fighting to save our lives? the order was given. He wasn't trying. Austro Hungarian, against Serbia, maybe before this was the most egregious, but that was, Connection to events I mean the serbian government had maybe been involved in this assassination. Most militaries are moving away from that the Germans use. Keep his cavalry live on. That era, from like one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine to one thousand, eight hundred and fifteen, so awful in terms of military destruction, Crown crowned heads of Europe in the lesson was. 2015-05-06 | . there's quite a bit of division over this whole thing, during this time period between when the archduke was assassinated, which happens on June 28th, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, and when the Austro hungarian government issues that famous ultimatum, the list of demands to Serbia, which happens on July 23rd? Von Moltke was basically saying knock come out, quick knockouts, that's. 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. They can. If you dont think the Battle of Jutland was a big deal, imagine if the British had decisively lost it. Can suicidal bravery and fanatical determination make up for material, industrial and numerical insufficiency? 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. End quote, in other words. Dan Carlin's Hardcore History. First world war, german armies, because the Second World WAR, german army, like so many things in that second conflict over shadow, it in many ways the very, in the Second World WAR is flashier than the first World war. You know. I don't know how many avid civil war buffs American Civil WAR Box. War saw the French trying to use these gatling guns, these early machine guns as best they could, but no one really had any clue what to do with them that, change by one thousand, nine hundred and fourteen. Start the wiki. Go directly to shout page. The last thing they wanted to do was give them guns and train them how to use it right, training how to be better street fighters. two people and he did so in a way that almost makes you believe in fate. The british situation was fundamentally different. Thought was going to happen, the chimes of big Ben sounding and things they sound like doom. They they had more staying power. Blueprint for Armageddon IV (2:58:48). You know a president. You know. It was even more of a concern than that. Guns that are this large, usually can only be put on ships. British had just dealt with this not altogether successfully in South Africa, where atrocity issues happened, the, which are dealing with it in Asia and North Africa. You know the governor low princess metaphor: we pulled in Sarajevo. Serb nationalists and the Serbs are very, very patriotic, even today, even more so back in nineteen. just position to perhaps find yourself in an perhaps have no fault of your own Ferguson. The loan number is seven hundred and fifty thousand Germans, just, a high number is one point: five million and that doesn't even, the traditional four to hundred twenty mile border. Do you. Presided over Britain during the height of Britain's power when she's controlling most of the world and the sun proverbially never set on the british Empire queen. But, and intimidating as they are meant to be. They don't, really wrong way to be organized. Sixteen inch guns. Stories of german behavior in Belgium, the Sun, Chronicle, he writes was one of many british papers which alleged that the Germans had cut off the hands of belgian children, while the four, ill disguised relish the quote: wild orgies of blood and debauchery and quote ', which the Germans allegedly indulged, including the quote ruthless violation and killing of defenseless women, girls and children of tender age and quote for, and continues quote other writers had great fun. This army, he writes, has been on active service for three weeks, and so. You know the french or your historic enemies. Guy, whose name is Archduke Franz Ferdinand-. Where the romance of warfare you Wichita, and strong in human culture was probably at its height. Need help? the conflict where you can't hide it anymore, and even though this, Elgin officer looks at this german assault on his food is something akin to the charge of the Light brigade, the famous doomed charge of that British Cavalry during the crimean war. brutal are advance into Belgium is brutal. There is something very crude. It was a mixture of the gas from an explosion and the smoke of a fire in the troops quarters we were driven back, have suffocated looking out of a p. ol. a year or two after the conflict, and so he's right in the middle of the moment. 1.0x. Only one result absolutely certain. actor French along their mutual border that borders full of forts it's the most. Violating Belgium, ends up taking a Britain that one historian says as recently as two days before they declare war on. His voice is perfect for this material. different direction. historians again. family still communicated with each other, which provides like a diplomatic back channel where these rulers can actually you know, sidestep traditional diplomacy and just write the family member that rules the other country, for example, Queen Victoria. Show 53 - Blueprint for Armageddon IV. That's normally the invasion route. Every episode of Blueprint for Armageddon has that moment several times. For fans and newbies alike, you can listen to some intriguing stories that are sure to give you a different perspective on a certain historical event. There. Hitler sees it after the war. There's been a lot written about this. about seventy percent of the world at this time period. The french, Calvary heading off to war, as I said earlier, but you have to imagine this. This whole. You have the german staring across the you know, English channel from you and then all of a sudden that mode doesn't look that. I take taken hold. Proclaimed and that's how it happened, you didn't proclaim English. Can you create? And here's someone who doesn't think anybody does anything better than America and. People signed papers and ok the next day as of tomorrow. And the actual circumstances, by the way where this plot was hatched. Subscribe to the show and get . Buy from Apple Music. I think the leaders of the United States after Kennedy is assassinated, are worried about in terms of worst case scenarios. In fact, none of the, they hadn't been mentally prepped for the idea that this was coming for. in the city hasn't taken the forts and they're. But 99 years later the dam breaks and a Pandora's Box of violence engulfs the planet. It can't happen the world. They don't fire flat, something they fire way up in the air, and then it drops right on top of these fords. And he had every reason to be by the way, because a few days. it's about what happens when two sides, armed with machine guns and two sides aren't with modern artillery and all that face off. take up arms and start shooting at your soldiers like guerrilla troops, for example in Vietnam. Tiny sparks from the cobblestones, but the horses and men who beat out the sparks were invisible at midnight, ach wagons and siege guns were still passing at seven, this morning I was awakened by the tramp of men in bands playing jauntily, whether they marched all night or not. Japan's rising sun goes supernova and engulfs a huge area of Asia and the Pacific. news doesn't detonate until the next car. We forget that sometimes it's not about, people you kill sometimes it's about who they are, and often, It's not the terrorist act that changes the world. 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. You shouldn't do. What I love, Ferguson says he goes and finds like the original thing that happened and then how it got blown out of proportion and but nonetheless, all these, people emphasize the same thing. Hardcore History 53 - Blueprint for Armageddon IV. That's when the British draw up the official sort of ultimatum, which, we'll? to the grassy knoll, where it proceeds to stall and stop. By continuing to browse or closing this banner, you consent to our. crazy and all of a sudden, the French were, on a scale that was unprecedented and to create armies that were enormous, mean looking, Alexander, the great probably the greatest conqueror in all world history, Alex, enter conquers, a very large chunk of the known world and a decent sized chunk of the unknown world. advancing german armies executed civilians, including women and priests. do be like jumping off a cliff in the dark. Writes quote. What is the. You know. Gwynn Dyer has a great way, describing it he's just to understand the shock of the crowned heads of Europe when the, royal of european countries. Class of hot house plants, which can only thrive in an aristocratic and qualitative civilization. The European, dates had developed the wealth, the organizational techniques and the methods of motivation needed to fight mass wars with a degree. So they wait until the Germans arrive. Ok, maybe what do I do now? of their own France, Great Britain. He says you have to imagine if Maoists toppled, the US government today malice, of course, being a very high, CORE Communist group. a river of steel. Basically, this is life or death. Machine guns, barbed wire and millions upon millions of artillery shells create industrialized meat grinders at Verdun and the Somme. 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. program you just heard, is not identical to the version we originally released. Just Dan being dragged into the blackhole of opinionjerk that is twitter. That's tiny, but that has so much, SIRI. You were around during the age of exploration, and you had a bunch of ships out that you were getting colonies. following an unplanned route for security reasons, There doesn't seem to be a lot of extra in a police protection, Franceville in her, was on the running board of the arch, car. We shall, The Germans are given the famous ultimatum, and it's, to expire at midnight on August. 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. and in London, the financial capital of the World, Lloyd, George's hearing from all the bankers and all the investors and all these people that this is a crisis. You know. To be to be the highways the german army uses to get from Germany to France. When he decides to write a book on naval history, Kaiser like Roosevelt Reddit, was enthralled with it made all as you apples read it and then decided he was going to build this fleet to compete with Britain so that they, you know, wouldn't, Now, of course, all the governments in Europe that matter, keys and autocratic governments. others can see no way to win this war without violating Belgium's neutrality. For a long time. In both case, those countries were the reason Britain got dragged into the conflict before, Second World WAR Britain Head going tried to stop. Easily my favorite series (and the first one I listened too of Dan's as it was coming out). organize terror groups put together by a bunch of young kids. Ive been read a few of them since your podcast. German army. who may be most responsible for the modern world, this entire world, including the nine slash eleven attacks, that you know. get to that belgian road system that you need to get from Germany to France. Encounter slopes being a chaos of rubbish while Hugh, tongues of flame, we're shooting forth from the throat of the fortress my first, thought he writes was to try to save the remnant of the garrison I rush. Find european countries to each other. They look mean they looked Chauvin, They look like they wanted to take over your country, and then they were building this giant navy now, all of a sudden out of nowhere challenging Britain B, Kaiser had read that same book that Theodore, Roosevelt Red did, anybody do more damage than Alfred Thayer Mahan. Britain, France, Germany, Russia, will throw in Turkey in ITALY too, which would make seven these, We no matter what happened. virtual during his life had famously said. The british royal family is kind of turned off by William and all William wants is kind of their love and approval and to be like them, it's funny. The thing, you return to watch it fascinated? All saddle horses Shelby seat for the cavalry all. Would it be in our world today, if, couple of different nations of moderate power signed a piece of paper tomorrow that united them into one country and that one now combined country was the most powerful country in the world. They don't have total power. Napoleon lost thirty thousand men a month as a matter of course,. place that auto VON Bismarck, it famously said, was not worth the bones of a single pomeranian grenadier. I mean in terms of what you could expect that these people were merit. 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. 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.

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