Dan Carlin and some posts I read here mention how Allied use of tanks, planes and artillery plus small unit “infiltration” infantry tactics in the Hundred Days Offensive were the forerunners of combined arms tactics used in WWII. How did European and American armies train/study these tactics in the interwar years, and did the plans they came up with work more or less as planned?

I'm looking at Chinese historians narrating Chinese history with their point of view (when I found books on Chinese history they're always narrated by a Westerner and I think a Westerner's point of view can change the meaning of many things).

Please, recommend me (if they have a book translate in spanish is better to me!)

Also, thanks for create this place. Thanks of you guys i have more information that i like to read.

(I'm aware that whatever idea Cato had about "being a proper Roman man" was that he probably thought Scipio didn't qualify, but I feel like I can't bring up one without the other)

Also, side question: why is the deity of masculine qualities, Virtus, often depicted as a woman?

Armor of lamellar construction seems to be of eastern origin yet I see a lot of people using lamellar armor for their Viking reenacments. Some sources claim that most Vikings had little to no armor other than a helmet and only the rich could afford mail. There is archeological evidence supporting that Vikings wore mail armor and helmets but I couldn’t find anything about lamellae.

A misidentification of lorica squamata type European scale armor perhaps?

Is there any discipline of sports history that highlights this transformation? Lacrosse, to certain tribes located in the Northeastern Unites States and Eastern Canadian regions, has been a traditional sport for hundreds--if not thousands--of years. How did it become what it is today? It's now associated as an "Ivy League" sport, typically played among the upper-crust, white class of society--so much so to the point that it has become a sort of trope or meme in popular media. Do we know for sure how this transformation happened? How is it that, in an ironic twist, the staple sport of the American upper-class is borrowed from a now-dwindling and neglected native culture?

Especially in older eras such as under the Rurikids, Tudors and further back the Romans and Persians.

This is a slightly odd question, and one I potentially did not word right, so please bare with me.

I kind of assumed that Italian Fascism was basically German Fascism with slightly less racism. However, I came across this quote by Mussolini which genuinely shocked me:

“Race! It is a feeling, not a reality: ninety-five percent, at least, is a feeling. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today.”

I am genuinely baffled by this quote, and even more so by the fact that he said it in 1932. As well, Mussolini also took on the title of “Protector of Islam” around this time. Apparently he did it more for geopolitical reasons but still, I imagine Matteo Salvini (leader of the far-right League Party) would probably not be interested such a title.

Were these moments just isolated incidents, or were they in line with Italian Fascist thought? (Note: I do not want to in any way glamorize Italian fascism, but rather merely understand what early Italian fascists actually believed)

I grew up in a state with a language requirement. I took Spanish for 5 years from 7th-11th grade and felt like I never actually developed the skill to anywhere near fluid. When I graduated, I found that my college also required 4 semesters of foreign language. It seems like a lot of time and effort that I could have used for something more practical - and it doesn't seem to make sense. I'm wondering what the reason was for this requirement.

Do we know if it discovered/developed in a single location and spread or was it a natural progression to the stone tool that was developed in many locations independently?

When you look at old time photographs from the 20s and 30s, the men are wearing full wool suits, hats and often long overcoats, and the women long dresses, even in very hot cities like Milan, Italy, or Jacksonville, or Atlanta. However nowadays, everyone is dressed in shorts and t-shirts, as you would be drenched in sweat wearing a wool suit. Was formal attire back then that indispensable, or are the photographs all taken in winter? Was the weather back then cooler? Was it normal to be sweaty all day?

Were there any calls for independence prior to the Japanese invasion, and did the Manchurian population feel any sense of national pride or identity separate to China?

How was the situation for democracy in pre WW2 Japan? Specifically did the Japanese people "want" democracy? I.e Were there any attempts to establish democracy and overturn the emperor/shogunate etc before Western intervention started?

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What would be the differences between late Roman heavy and light cavalry as the lance combat that drives the image of the medieval knight had not come to fruition yet?

Nowadays a student would bring home cool things they learned while at university; they will bore their family members with novel ideas such as quantum mechanics, gender theory, climate change, quantum mechanics, free will debate, or quantum mechanics.

What would have been the equivalent to those ideas in the 17th century universities?