Thomas Wictor

Posts Tagged ‘iron harvest’

Context: Here’s how “civilized” westerners used to fight

While we wait to see what’ll happen in Syria, Iraq, and the rest of the Middle East, here’s some context for the fighting. In five years, about 250,000 have been killed in the Syrian civil war. In comparison, from February to December of 1916, over 300,000 combatants were killed in the Battle of Verdun. Nobody’s…

 

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