Hello everyone! Today I come before you to ask for help on a little project: the AskHistorians Showcase!
What is the Showcase you ask? Well I'm so glad you asked! The showcase will be a page of some of Askhistorians greatest answers presented under 10 general categories. The purpose of this showcase is to show our readers, other historians, and interested people what exactly it is that we do here! Furthermore we will be linking it to a greater community page for interested parties to learn even more!
In order to do this however, we need your help in selecting and nominating some of your saved, favorite, or top quality answers from this subreddit!
How will we proceed? Well, I will make 10 separate nomination threads over the coming weeks for you to nominate your favorite answers in the ten categories below. Today's thread is for Military History!
So please give us your favorite military history answers past and present!
Future Categories: Asia, Africa, Europe, Middle and South America, North America, Ancient World, Medieval World, Middle East, Cultural History
edit: and don't be afraid to submit your own answers if you have em!
Can I just nominate /u/NMW as a person?
Which includes easily one of my favorite quips ever:
To do this, he has written a book that offers as "real, regular men" such luminaries as Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, Edmund Blunden and Wilfred Owen -- men, that is, who were all recipients of expansive educations, enjoyed a great deal of leisure in their civilian lives (Sassoon was as notorious for his fox-hunting as he was for his literary salons, for example), and had such exquisitely artistic, intellectual sensibilities that their first response to combat was to write sonnets about it.
Since Georgy is not going to nominate his own post(s), I'll take it upon myself to once again bring up the topic of armoured trains.
Don't know if these fall more in the realm of American history or Military History, but here we go...
/u/Reedstilt answers How was the American military so decisive in its battles against the Native Americans during the 19th century (specifically against the Shawnee and the Creek)?
/u/pseudogentry, from a massive AMA on the Precolumbian Americas, answers a question on how the Triple Alliance quickly modified battle tactics to counter Spanish guns, cannon, and horses.
Shouldn't this be stickied?
Also, how does "Medieval World" and "Cultural History" work in conjunction with the geographical categories?
I don't know if it is exactly military history, I hope it is ... In doubt I will post it. I like /u/AsiaExpert 's answer about The role of Ninjas
/u/400-Rabbits post about siege warfare in the Americas before Columbus.
I quite liked the answers by /u/historiagrephour in this thread:
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2l67an/what_was_the_opinion_of_the_landed_gentry_in/
This isn't my best post, but it's my favorite. Eight minutes of history on September 23, 1917, with Werner Voss, James McCudden, and others. Stories like these aren't rigorous academic history, but they're what got me into reading history when I was a kid so they have a special place in my heart.
This subs patience and serious answers to endless questions about Hitler and WW2, never assuming the question is stupid or trolling, deserves a medal.
/u/124876720 on "Did Hitler kill anybody":
All of /u/tayaravaknin's posts on Israel's wars. I'll let him recommend which ones he thinks ar best.
/u/Bernardito has too many Vietnam ones to choose from! Maybe this one though?
Likewise /u/Celebret just has too many Roman military ones to pick from. This? or This? or maybe This? Which one do you want it to be man!?
/u/Gyokusai_Into_Ships weren't you the one who wrote the one about Japanese rations? 'Cause I can't find it...
I'll find some more later.
I'm discovering this thread a month late, but /u/Georgy_K_Zhukov 's six part history of armored trains is probably my favorite set of posts on here.