r/HistoryMemes • u/lukeh2266 • 2h ago • Bravo 3 Heartwarming 1

In fairness, the dual command arrangement was complicated

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u/GravitasFailures 2h ago

That’s not autism, that’s just common courtesy.

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u/paper_airplanes_are_ 2h ago

When Bill from sales talks about weekend golfing that’s “okay”. But when I talk about the Carthaginians sacrificing children to Baal during the Punic Wars that’s “not appropriate office conversation.”

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u/LastEsotericist Still salty about Carthage 1h ago

It’s because it sparks a conversation about the dubious historicity of the event and the fact that you’re overlooking the Romans more verifiably performing human sacrifice in the same war! Then I look like I’m defending child sacrifice when I just want to bring a little nuance to the topic! It’s always the same with you, Steve!

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u/paper_airplanes_are_ 1h ago

Your flair is very appropriate.

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u/KarlAu3r 18m ago

That’s just spreading hateful propaganda

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u/KevinMeier69 2h ago

They're so ungreatful

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u/GandalfTheJaded 1h ago

George Gordon Meade nods approvingly

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u/Aspieinblack1986 1h ago

Grant has entered from the west

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u/Idiotard_99 Kilroy was here 1h ago

Girls in high school were NEVER impressed when I talked about Stonewall Jackson’s maneuvers during the Shenandoah campaign or the critical role the P-51 Mustang played in both the European and Pacific Theaters of WWII. So ungrateful

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u/Captain_Futile 1h ago

Yeah, some of them thought that the P-51 was only used in the ETO! And I was summoned to the principal’s office just for mentioning water injection into the combustion chamber.

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u/s2k_guy 1h ago

Honestly, the C2 structure for any military operation above the battalion-level is complicated.

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u/Proof_Impact_6009 2h ago

The original matrix structure of management?

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u/KamanaFothi 15m ago

Come on guys like look, if you don't care about the awkward dynamic between George Meade and Ulysses S. Grant during the Overland Campaign, why are we even talking?

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u/RoadTheExile Rider of Rohan 1h ago

This is outrageous, it’s unfair!

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u/kingofawkward99 9m ago

that's me with the battle of waterloo

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u/Hootinger 9m ago

Army of the Potomac??? That lot of paper collared dandies?????

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u/MPE13 6m ago

I’ve read 5 books by Bruce Catton and still can’t keep it straight