LoBaron
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ORIGINAL: Commander Stormwolf good books are written close to the event, and have primary sources bad books are written many years after events occur, to make money quote:
ORIGINAL: Commander Stormwolf PacWar designers: everyone knows the japanese pilots were a lot more experienced than the allied, from the 4 years they fought in china - especially the sally and lily units, despite their small payloads, from their thousands of flying hours they had the skill to destroy a big part of the allied air forces in the far east on the ground, let's give them 80 exp. by contrast the allied pilots had almost no combat experience, and only limited training, let's give them 40 exp WITP Designers : maybe the japanese had a small edge in pilot skill, but it was pretty close, let's give them 70exp and the allies 50 exp AE #2 designers: new research indicates that allied pilots were just as good as the japanese, they just had poor logistics, let's give them all 60 exp not to poke at AE, it is truly the best wargame ever made, just making a point about how the accepted history changes with time That the ammount and composition of available data about a certain event drifts over a given timespan, is a nobrainer. That the interpretation of available data depends on external factors as well, such as society, political viepoint, emotional relation to the topic, life experience of the interpreter and so on, is a nobrainer. That this drift can potentially change the overall correctness of the data interpretation to better or worse, is a nobrainer as well. Your second post does in no way support you initial claim, actually I am at complete loss how anybody, including yourself, would be able to think it would. So, either you don´t care whether there is any continuity in your argumental chain, or we have a completely different understanding of logic, in which case a rational discussion would be impossible.
< Message edited by LoBaron -- 6/28/2012 9:11:25 AM >
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