French army falling apart, documents show

[KarlXII]

I'm not claiming that Norway is Russian objective. I'm telling that russian invasion is not same like american invasion :)

Is it the nationalism talking?

[JR-]

"I'm not claiming that Norway is Russian objective. I'm telling that russian invasion is not same like american invasion"

Is it the nationalism talking?

a very reasonable sentiment really.

Grozny or Baghdad, i know where i would rather have been at the height of hostilities.

[KrooK]

Its not nationalism - its analise Russian military history.

[BigTex]

Its not nationalism - its analise Russian military history.

While I agree with most of your post, war with russia is really unlikely. War is more likely going to come further east then them. You have 2 massive countries, india and China, with massive populations starting to hurtle themselves headlong into industrialization and overall modernization. They sit right next to themselves, and already have over the past century border conflicts. Not to mention India can very well become China's main competition to being the worlds manufacturing center for the west. Also Russia has to play nice with europe for the time being since they are their main oil buyers, least until the pipeline to china is finished.

But other then that yes, nationalism has it's place. So do armies, we should not become complacent and lazy about our defense. I doubt that most will listen or even bother to think too far into the future about things like that, most people these days are more interested in entertaining themselves, or finding the next thing to entertain themselves with. Pride in where you live, I guess that's just no longer acceptable.

Quite sad to see the decay of a once great military power. I just hope the foriegn legion is not hit to badly. The history and the beliefs of it are remarkable and interesting.