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1st Reply From: bruscint@ohio.edu Subject: Re: REPLY: What has war ever done, anyway? (6) Date: March 31, 2010 9:12:27 AM EDT To: H-NET Military History Discussion List <H-WAR@H-NET.MSU.EDU> It taught Americans to get along. Hey, did I mention that my book, A Nation Forged in War: How World War II Taught Americans to Get Along, just came out in the University of Tennessee Press's new Legacies of War series? Here's the link: http://utpress.org/bookdetail/?jobno=T01369 (Sorry, I couldn't resist.) Best, TB Thomas Bruscino Assistant Professor School of Advanced Military Studies U.S. Army Command & General Staff College Fort Leavenworth, Kansas 66027 2nd Reply From: Kirchubel, Robert F <rkirchub@purdue.edu> Subject: RE: REPLY: What has war ever done, anyway? (6) Date: March 30, 2010 7:36:09 PM EDT To: H-NET Military History Discussion List <H-WAR@H-NET.MSU.EDU> H-Warriors, Sadly, it seems the first casualty of Geoff's "fun exercise" is his [only] rule that suggested ideas be "without explanations, justifications, illuminations, caveats, or arguments." Rob Kirchubel 3rd Reply From: Stephen Coode <Stephen.L.Coode@uscg.mil> Subject: FW: REPLY: What has war ever done, anyway? Date: March 31, 2010 9:26:30 AM EDT To: Scott Hendrix <hendsn1@gmail.com> > -Inspired stimulating poetry and song > -Destroyed magnificent architecture > -United tribes and peoples Steve Coode DHS/USCG Arlington, VA 202-493-1026 ________________________________________ From: H-NET Military History Discussion List [H-WAR@H-NET.MSU.EDU] On Behalf Of Scott Hendrix [hendsn1@GMAIL.COM] Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 5:15 PM To: H-WAR@H-NET.MSU.EDU Subject: REPLY: What has war ever done, anyway? (6) 1st Reply From: McGrath, John J CIV USA TRADOC <john.j.mcgrath@us.army.mil> Subject: RE: COMMENT: What has war ever done, anyway? (UNCLASSIFIED) Date: March 30, 2010 8:40:42 AM EDT To: H-NET Military History Discussion List <H-WAR@H-NET.MSU.EDU> Caused the Colonials to Revolt (the peace from the Seven Years War made the Brits get tough with the Colonials) Got the USA its Independence. Stopped Hitler after Causing Hitler Gave Stalin More Power Invented Nukes, Jets and Missiles Made Afghanistan Much More Important than It Actually Is John J. McGrath Leavenworth, KS 2nd Reply From: Hawk, Alan J. <Alan.Hawk@us.army.mil> Subject: RE: What has war ever done, anyway? Date: March 30, 2010 9:23:43 AM EDT To: H-NET Military History Discussion List <H-WAR@H-NET.MSU.EDU> Wars represent breaking points in history, where irreconcilable issues are resolved since there is no other means to solve them. American Civil War - turned the United States into a unified nation. First World War - The beginning of the end of multinational empires. (Of course the peace treaty made such a hash of the process of defining national boundaries that we will continue to be fighting wars, of which the Balkan Wars of the 1990's was the opening chapter, to resolve those issue for the next century or so.) Second World War - Destroyed the myth of racial superiority, not only of the Nazi kind, but also of the American Jim Crow kind and the British colonial kind. Global War on Terrorism - War for the soul of Islam. V/r Alan Hawk Collections Manager, Historical Collections National Museum of Health and Medicine Armed Forces Institute of Pathology Bldg. 54, Walter Reed Army Medical Center Washington, DC 20306-6000 Mailing address: PO Box 59685 Washington, DC 20012-0685 <http://nmhm.washingtondc.museum/> <http://www.afip.org/> Phone: (202) 782-2205, DSN 662-2205 Fax: (202) 782-3573, DSN 662-3573 <mailto:alan.hawk@us.army.mil> 3rd Reply From: Kuehn, John Dr CIV USA TRADOC <john.t.kuehn@us.army.mil> Subject: RE: REPLY: What has war ever done, anyway? (UNCLASSIFIED) Date: March 30, 2010 9:46:56 AM EDT To: H-NET Military History Discussion List <H-WAR@H-NET.MSU.EDU> I think we should rename this thread. War What is it good for? John T. Kuehn, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Military History Department of Military History U.S. Army Command and General Staff College Fort Leavenworth, KS 913-684-3972 "Present preparedness must not be sacrificed to an illusory future readiness. National emergencies cannot be foreseen and must be met by existing forces." The General Board of the Navy, January 1933 4th Reply From: Tim Cooke <kona.tim@hotmail.com> Subject: RE: REPLY: What has war ever done, anyway? Date: March 29, 2010 11:03:16 PM EDT To: H-NET Military History Discussion List <h-war@h-net.msu.edu> Created the united Kingdom of Hawaii Created the "nation" of Japan In fact, created most "nations," preserved others, and overthrew many more. Major (ret.) Timothy S. Cooke, MMH 6th Reply From: Daniel E. Teodoru <deteodoru@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: REPLY: What has war ever done, anyway? Date: March 29, 2010 10:29:23 PM EDT To: H-NET Military History Discussion List <H-WAR@H-NET.MSU.EDU> War perfected trauma surgery so that ERs can repear gangbankers so they can go out and kill innocent bystanders while trying to kill eachother. Made h-diplo interesting because of the h-war alternative if diplomacy should fail DE Teodoru -----Original Message----- From: H-NET Military History Discussion List [mailto:H-WAR@H-NET.MSU.EDU] On Behalf Of Scott Hendrix Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 5:56 PM To: H-WAR@H-NET.MSU.EDU Subject: COMMENT: What has war ever done, anyway? From: Megargee, Geoffrey <GMegargee@ushmm.org> Subject: What has war ever done, anyway? Date: March 26, 2010 6:38:55 PM EDT To: H-NET Military History Discussion List <H-WAR@H-NET.MSU.EDU> I propose this as a fun exercise. Without explanations, justifications, illuminations, caveats, or arguments, list the things that war has done through the ages. A straight bullet list; put down whatever occurs to you. Let's see what we get. I'll start: Kept the Persians out of Greece Put the Normans in England United China, and Russia, and the United States Spread Islam Geoff Megargee ----- For subscription help, go to: http://www.h-net.org/lists/help/ To change your subscription settings, go to http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=h-war -----
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