Army officer in 2002. He then spent one year in iraq as a tank platoon leader and later, one year tour in afghanistan. Nicholas is a general in the Army Staff College and specialist in war gaming americas inhouse tanker and historian since 2012 and has the nickname of the chieftain. You might want to remember that. His first book on the development of Tank Destroyers is scheduled for release in the first half of 2018. Nick is known for written articles and reviews of tanks inside and out. Lots on youtube called inside the chieftains hatch. Or this video cast on cspans American History tv. Ladies and gentlemen, nicholas moran. [ applause ] thats about as high up as it goes. Good evening oh, boy. Okay. So todays talk is on world war ii and why the sheryl man is as it was. Thats actually not a very good title but the best i could come up with when i was asked by rob, hey, will you give us a talk. I will do the obligatory shoutout, they are the people that asked me to come out here. We are
You, you seek revenge, you retaliate, they interp fret pre as a wrong, they come back at you. The momentum of total lang wachbling war is sped onwards by the rhetoric and ideas of revenge. When hitler talks about the destruction of the jews, he phrases it in the language of revenge. He blames them, obviously, inappropriately, but he blames them for the german loss in world war i, he blamed it for the Great Depression and for starting world war ii. So it is an act of revenge, in part. Weve also seen of course the language of revenge in terms of the americans fighting the japanese in the pacific. Im going to talk a little bit today about the language of revenge worked for some other combatants in the european theater of operation on both of axis and the allied side and weight effort to seek revenge drove the war onward in europe in the years that we have now reached, which are approximately those of 1942 43. And i want to begin by looking at the czech government exile. The man you see on
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