Comments by "Bruce Tucker" (@brucetucker4847) on "WTF?! Destroy Cuba or Don't! | The Cuban Missile Crisis I Day 04" video.

  1. Tuchman's conclusions were fatally flawed by her lack of access to documents that came to light after that book was written which make it clear how much the world war was deliberately engineered by the German general staff. The blundering and misunderstanding was on the part of everyone else who swallowed the German lies about wanting to either prevent a war or limit it to a local Balkan conflict and failed to detect the machinations through which Germany very carefully sabotaged every attempt to preserve peace. If you want to find out what really happened in August, 1914, a good place to start is Europe's Last Summer by David Fromkin.
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  2. When Clemenceau said that, he might have been right. But today, war is too important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought.
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