Favorite Military history period
 

What's your favorite military history period to study and why? I tried to break it up by the major groups/time periods/ changes in technology and tactics.

Me personally. I like US Civil War, WW2, and Napoleonic histories. I have very little insterest in ancient military history and modern military history (21st century).

WW2 and 'Nam. WW2 because of the innovation and the fact that the world pretty much put its differences aside to combat a common enemy, and 'Nam because it showed that the hero attitude doesnt always work.

I like the ww2 conflict because it encompassed air, naval, and land warfare. I also like the fact that it had a definitive resolution with the defeat of the Axis powers. It was truely a horrific conflict on a global scale.

I voted WW2 because it changed the face of warfare more than any other single conflict.

I voted Napoleonic, because it was the last stage of the glorious, huge battle and someone loses decisively era. The modern era has too many blurs on too many edges to be my favourite, but its a close second.

All of them. :up: I go through periods of interest in particular 'ages' that last for weeks to years.

The greek/roman stuff scares me because men in skirts is just wrong. The Napolean era, well I just do not like short people as Randy newman would say. The civil War was cool because something good came of it for the slavery issue, plus I like my civil war chess set. WW1 was interesting because my grandparents fought in it. WW2 interests me because i love how Moe Howard portrayed Hitler. The cold war was cool (NPI) because that was my era of service.:salute:

WWII for its revolution in technology, and it's shear scale. Breathtaking.....

Late 70-80s cold war..

Now of course I am glad it did not turn hot. But the tech at that time would have resulted in insane battles.

In fiction...

I like Ancient Europe (Greece, Rome) etc. Don't let the skirts fool you-these were tough warriors in face to face combat.
The other period I really like is 16th - 17th century Europe and Japan (Sengoku Jidai, the 30 Years War, the English Civil War, The Great Northern War ). Once the Age of Reason kicks in I loose interest.

The War of Succession in the US is pretty intersting, as is WWII, but once it gets all push button and nukey I nod off.

Always got a soft spot for the loosers / underdogs and I used to tablegame with ancients and pike and muskets (DBM / DBR ) in 1:72 scale (25mm), my favorite armies being Diaodochi and Montrose's Royalist Scots respectively.

Hmmm, Napoleonic through to Cold War, Modern battles to some extent but insurgancies confuse me and I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in that respect.

I'd have to go with WWI, closely followed by 18th Century/Napoleonics then Ancient (Mostly Late Roman)

A tie between the Napoleonic era and WW2.

In the former, Britain was at it's peak in military terms and in the latter (nearer the end) there were the very first signs of the decline.

Yeah, I heard a wild rumo(u)r that you are pretty fond of L' Empiruer:shucks: :salute: :haha: .

WW2 for me. The innovations engineered during WW2 are in use today. I can still talk with those that were there. Piles of books and movies about it. Just interesting to see what happened then affects us today.