@kevinakwok and I watched a documentary on tanks and WWI was strange bc they had tanks but the tanks had to carry pigeons to communicate.
Dan Carlin refers to World War I as a “historical estuary.” Damn, what a phrase.pic.twitter.com/Vh0AfQKLbj
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What are some other ones?
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Other historical estuaries? I was thinking about it earlier and concluded that all time periods are historical estuaries, as in Gibson’s “The future is already here; it's just not evenly distributed.” What distinguishes WWI is mostly how legible it is as an estuary.
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I used the same phrase in my end-of-high-school-exam, the essay was about how the tensions of the 19th century opened up (turbulent river --> estuary --> sea) and led to a very violent first half of the 20th century. I had read the same phrase in some book and,...
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as a good student, found a way to use it in my essay (many moons ago).
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I remember how he described that time in military history as being weird for being as modern as it was but still having horses. Then I learned that even during WWII horses were doing most of the logistics. Even some mounted calvary. Feel a bit misled. Or Im misremembering
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In early stages, yes. Lot of the German initial forces were horse powered.
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Listening to his Supernova episodes again. What a treasure.
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