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thenewgreen · 4717 days ago · link ·
Operation Barbarossa was the largest military operation in human history in both manpower and casualties
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Barbarossa It's shocking what we are capable of.
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Minard.pn...
Perhaps the most famous graphic in all of information presentation. "Napoleon's Folly." Russia is where armies go to die.
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thenewgreen · 4717 days ago · link ·
Ah ....but Afghanistan is where Russians go to die. I wonder which is the more formidable home court advantage?
Also, this reminded me of this which I posted months ago: http://hubski.com/pub?id=805
A great read.
I had never seen this. Thanks. I've always been fascinated by this war.
Are those Russian forces gathering in the black? I love the temperature graph. (btw, I think you were commenting while I tried to kill a bug that has been driving me crazy. If you noticed, sorry for the Hubski instability)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Joseph_Minard#Informati...
Brown is there. Black is back. It demonstrates pretty succinctly how, exactly, Napoleon turned a half-million-strong army into a brigade of 10,000 soldiers simply by marching on Moscow.
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Ah, I see.
If I have to invade Russia, I am coming from the East: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_invasion_of_Rus#Invasion...
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Problem is those guys are STILL THERE!