What's your favorite war? (Cold War doesn't count)?

Answer 1

The Arab-Israeli war and 6 day war how little Israel spanked their enemy

Answer 2

In my opinion the only reason to study war is to learn how to end and avoid them in the future. I believe most historians follow only soldiers in their aberration for war and the things it has caused. Lesson #1 nothing good has ever come from war. While some say good came from WWII, I would suggest that it would have been better if Hitler had never been given power, and the war had never happened.

Regardless, while I don't have a "favorite" war I think the most important war to study would be the 7 Years War/French and Indian War. No war before or since has had as great a world altering influence as that conflict. World maps were redrawn, world powers were changed, and colonialism was expanded to touch every part of the planet. Directly from its events came the United States, the French Revolution, the British Empire, the rise of the German nation state, and the acceleration of the industrial revolution.

Answer 3

Personally, my favorite war is the 100 years war, which incidentally lasted 116 years. The personalities of the characters and chronicles of the era are unparrelled. However, another personal favorite is the 30 yrs war, which started with the defenestration of prague. Cool for 2 reasons, 1) the word defenestration and 2) it started with a man being thrown out of a window , whose life was saved through landing on a pile of poop.

Answer 4

An awkwardly phrased question...The most interesting is probably the Hundred Years War, or the war the christian scum waged on the "evil" pagans in the Americas (Spanish expansion, the war against the Aztecs). Why doesnt the Cold War count?

Answer 5

Why doesn't the cold war count? the 2 biggest powers on earth fighting with each other by proxy of other countries? What is not to love?

I would have to say The Civil War.

Answer 6

The Texas war for independence firstly - Remember the Alamo! a small band fighting legions to secure the new freedom of their country. Then, The Civil War - a war about injustice, a war about the rights of a fledgling country, about the difference between two cultures growing in the same time period. I

Answer 7

I'll rephrase the question.

My favorite war TO STUDY is the Second Boer War (South Africa, 1898-1902). A real watershed event for the British military, the British people, the British Empire and world opinion on colonialism.

Answer 8

I alternate between WW II and the War of Northern Aggression.

Answer 9

How can you call a war a "favorite " for Pete's sake? My father was in WW2 and was in the Siegfried line and, under fire for over 82 days, wounded .

I was in 'Nam for two tours with an elite unit, fought my way back from up North for over six weeks, under fire for over eight weeks. I was wounded twice. I was also in Cambodia. I wouldn't call either one a "favorite" war

Answer 10

WWI....I am fascinated with the historical significance and changes brought about to war because of airplanes..and this is the war that created "dogfights"