Comments on: Cannon Fodder

By: Toddy Cat

Toddy Cat — Sun, 28 Sep 2014 22:49:53 +0000

Thanks, didn’t know that. Is this commonly known? I didn’t know it.

By: With the thoughts you'd be thinkin

With the thoughts you'd be thinkin — Sat, 27 Sep 2014 00:02:35 +0000

Toddy Cat, Gary Brecher is a pen name of academic John Dolan.

By: Toddy Cat

Toddy Cat — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 15:00:58 +0000

Brecher’s biggest problem is massive overgeneralization, plus a need to make somewhat outrageous statements as clickbait. Someone (I think possibly Steve Sailer) once suggested that “Gary Brecher” was actually a pseudonym for some more respectable academic, who used it to vent and give voice to his more outrageous and speculative opinions. I believe that Victor Davis Hanson was mentioned as a possible suspect…

By: Scipio Americanus

Scipio Americanus — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 12:16:30 +0000

Thanks, Isegoria. I hadn’t known that the clearances went on that late.

By: Cassander

Cassander — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 03:01:51 +0000

Left out is that hill people often require rather violent suppressing because they are violent to begin with. Not nearly as bad as horse people, to be sure, but hill people tend to be considerably more ornery than lowlanders.

By: Joseph Moroco

Joseph Moroco — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 23:26:16 +0000

Suvorov had Swedish and Armenian ancestry. Alexander was at least part German.

By: Candide III

Candide III — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 22:22:38 +0000

Mr. Brecher is certainly full of it sometimes. I seem to recall, for instance, that the Roman army of the Punic Wars period consisted of citizens until Marius, that the Russian army that marched into Paris in 1814 was recruited by force from serfs of the same nationality as Suvorov, Kutuzov and Tsar Alexander himself, and that the IJA/IJN suffered under the same handicap. Etc.

Also, he’s way off the mark with the attention he gives to Soviet penal units. He ought to know that Stalin didn’t use his main units much better. They went after the penals, but that was all. They had the same barrier troops behind, and the kill rate was horrific. Battalion commanders could go through several complements of men just taking a single height. Soviet war memoirs are full of examples.

By: Isegoria

Isegoria — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 21:09:49 +0000

Well, the Highland Scots were a despised, crushed minority in 19th century Britain.

By: Toddy Cat

Toddy Cat — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 21:07:24 +0000

Quiet, Scipio, you’re interrupting The Narrative…

By: Scipio Americanus

Scipio Americanus — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 20:42:28 +0000

Because the Scots were a despised, crushed minority in 19th century Britain…