Siege of Vienna - Tunnel War - #2
Added 2019-04-12 02:15:15 +0000 UTCVienna had received an offer from Kara Mustafa—surrender and live in peace as Muslims or Christians, or resist and condemn yourself to death and slavery. The city’s commander, Starhemberg, chose resistance, and Vienna was on full alert at the start. But those days of initial panic were done, and now the siege was grueling, bloody routine.
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I agree it is easier to focus on strategy, but you have to know and understand how the strategy gets executed and that, unfortunately, takes blood and guts of people who almost never have an input on the "strategy". "War is Cruelty", to qoute William T. Sherman, and it is important to remember that the cruelty executed is what makes the "strategy" come to pass.
weirdo123
2019-04-12 15:16:35 +0000 UTCThis is all so relevant now. If we don’t up the education ante like this old grudge holders will keep passing their bloated, forever expanding fictions down to younger protégés / people in their debt. Thank you James!! Thank you Extra Credits team!
Karen Henton
2019-04-12 14:08:34 +0000 UTCI think I liked it more when war episodes focused on politics and strategy and the underlying causes of all events than on the details of who blew up what
Lana Sinapayen
2019-04-12 11:25:55 +0000 UTCReminiscent of First World War stories about digging Tunnels under Enemy Trenches, sometimes with Rival Groups of Tunnelers meeting and strange Underground Battles being fought in the Pitch Black.
Martin Verran
2019-04-12 08:50:21 +0000 UTC"As the days are passing by and as the dead are piling high No escape and no salvation Trenches to explosive halls are buried deep beneath the walls Plant the charges there and watch the city fear....Then the winged hussars arrived! Coming down the mountainside! Then the winged hussars arrived! Coming down they turned the tide!"
Jacob Ashton
2019-04-12 04:46:52 +0000 UTC
