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Old 09-11-2012, 09:26 AM   #29
Joe
 
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Default Re: Modelling History Through Cycles

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Originally Posted by Pomphis View Post
Do I understand correctly that for this line of reasoning the napoleonic wars, the crimean war and world war I do not count as large and nasty ?
My thoughts exactly. Which leads to me feel that this is a pretty clear case of...

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Originally Posted by cmdicely View Post
With a loose enough comparison and toleration for a few [glaring!] exceptions, any facts can fit any pattern you want.
It's for these kinds of reasons that this idea of wars (or crisis periods) coming in relatively regular periodic cycles just doesn't strike me as a plausible kind of historical theory.

But again, there may be something convincing about the idea that I can't yet see. I just... well... can't see it yet!

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