@@Outlier999 On the subject of apocryphal anecdotes: During a history lecture I once heard a professor say "Even if he never said this, he should have." I forget the exact thing the professor was talking about, but it was something out of classical history, anyways I digress. His point was that even if a quote or anecdote was apocryphal, good ones get the point across quite well. Regardless if they actually happened. While you are correct that there is no record of him saying this... He should have. food for thought: Prior to all the recording of the last 150-200 years (the Victorian age is when it all kicks into overdrive for the first time, that is when you see things like categorization and whatnot go nuts). All the quotes and speeches and whatnot that we have from this or that person, are universally agreed to be representations of what people said, especially when talking speeches. It isn't until the development of things like dictation machines that we really get what people said verbatim. Even then, at best we can only truly say things like "there is no record of them saying that", which is not the same as "they never said that". Granted in common use, those are conflated all the time.
The germans generals said it because they all know the potential industrial machinery that is built into America. That is why germans are not eager to have a conflict with the americans.
@@carlchapman4053 I prefer a peaceful life. I have thrown one punch in my life to strike another, was to breakup a fight between my cousin and a neighbor.
On occasion, a warrior race will treat the Terran book "THE ART OF WAR" as a joke. Only to learn one the many of the arts which Human are good at included WAR.
Summary: Human ships carry huge tons of resources Alien race starts attacking the ships like pirates Humans get mad and get their military to easily crush the aliens
Thx for the summary. I prefer the the stories that focus more on talking about why humans are physically or intellectually dangerous in combat scenarios or political fumbles that lead to humanity having to lash out. I find the stories about human ships or fleet engagements to be impersonal and a slog to get through. So thx for saving me some time.
The level of most of these war stories is WW 2 level tactics. Glassing planets and blowing up suns is a waste of real estate and star systems , and shows very poor tactics and management. I woulds think that more refined targeting or use of systems to convert planets directly into usable planetary bodies and commodities for the combatants. I am referencing the device used in one of the Star Trek movies that quickly terraform a planet. Another idea is instead of shields, develop a system that captures or absorbs and repackages matter and energy of war ordnance into useful packages for use. This is science fiction. Why not not explore ways to convert swords into plowshares on the battlefield?
