if you could fight in any war in history what would it be and why?

Question

id like to be in the spartan war or ww2

Answer 1

War in Iraq.

Answer 2

I'd choose to fight in the war between Great Britain and Zanzibar in 1896. Why, you ask? Because it lasted a grand total of 45 minutes (from 9 am to 9:45 am on August 27) before Zanzibar surrendered, and only about 500 people died. It's generally considered to be the shortest declared war in history. So I could go fight, have a very good chance of surviving it, and still be home in time for lunch!

Answer 3

Hindsight being 20/20, it's easy to say I'd change this or that, but we don't know what the ripple effect of consequences would be,and it's safer to stay with the familiar. It would be easy to say if I could participate by being where I needed to be to prevent mistakes or disasters, I'd swat down the Japanese task force the minute they launched for Pearl Harbor and had the battleships steamed up and out of the harbor, but this would have meant a faster conclusion of theatre operations and the 90% casualty rate invading the mainland that was expected had not the atomic bomb been developed in time, (requiring two was Hirohito's fault, and then it was probably a failed coup that convinced him to surrender more than anything else). Making sure our paratroopers were dropped on target in Sicily and Normandy is a change I would like to make, making sure the panzer divsions didn't escape Sicily is another. Or making sure the amphibious tanks made it to the American beaches at Normandy, a certain general warned the pilots would scatter and landing craft stopping too far from the beach because the navy brass were like a bunch of little old ladies with their precious toy boats (my great uncle spent a night in the English Channel because the wood boats they had to practice with got blown to pieces), and of course Eisenhower removed that general from any involvemnt in planning D-day. But if Patton had gone ashore with the tanks and got killed, he might not have been there during the Argonne Offensive, waiting to be called into action for the attack his G2 intelligence officer, Oscar Koch, had tried to warn Eisenhower's staff about on Dec. 11th. That's anothe rmistake I would have tried to prevent, but then someone did try, and was ignored. The nazis were only months at best from a workable nuke and already had flown an empty jet bomber over NYC by then. So putting everything behind the general in any part of the front, as it happened to be Patton with Operation Cobra, because it was possible and working, and being in Berlin well before the Russians, could have made things vastly different. But then maybe after the war Patton, not Eisenhower would have been President, and knowing now that the Russians had nuclear technology much earlier than thought, and a very capable intelligence network in this country (a friend of mine was in the CIC spending years helping document bundist activities in NYC, only to see them barter their information on communists in the USA to escape justice after the war), so that could have lead to nuclear war at least in Europe. I woudl not feel comfortable messing with any of the wars, except for one solitary issue, that might have been just as altering to the modern world, I would have kept Native American tribes out of European Wars, because they all lost, most especially those who picked the wrong side. In the final evaluation, if I couldn't have prevented the war, or shortened it and saved lives and collateral damage, but been just as helpless a pawn as those caught up in it, I'd rather just be out in the wilderness somewhere untouched by "modern civilization" to frolic with friendly native girls :D

Answer 4

It would be the Civil War, I read a book once where these guys in a time machine went back with all these automatic weapons on fought for the South, it was a wild ending.

Answer 5

Not really crazy about the sanitary conditions back then (more soldiers died from dysentery than battle wounds), but my choice would be the American Revolution. As an American, I would have loved to fight for the birth of my country.

Answer 6

The cola wars. Diet Pepsi all the way!!! Let us all remember those who have fallen:

Tab
Fanta
Mello Yello
Dr. Pepper
New Coke
Crystal Pepsi

You will all be missed. Lest We Forget.

Answer 7

the Good fight

Answer 8

idk what the war was called but i would like to fight as King Arthur(not the religious version, but the romanized british with his allies against the barbarian) i saw the movie King Arthur( the new one it was pretty cool.

Answer 9

Vietnam.

'cus it made as much sense as my head, the music, the place.

Answer 10

..the spartan and vietnam..
it's just too bloody..