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Originally Posted by Pomphis
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 ?
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My thoughts exactly. Which leads to me feel that this is a pretty clear case of...
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Originally Posted by cmdicely
With a loose enough comparison and toleration for a few [glaring!] exceptions, any facts can fit any pattern you want.
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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!