Similarities Between WW1 And WW2

I'm not a historian or history perfessor, however in my line of work while enlisted and other various stuff I did. I had unlimited access to a lot of history that Was not only well forgotten but purposely taken out of history. For whatever reason of embarrassment on our part or government leaders just agreed to keep our involvement to a minimum. The reason I had to dig and research through historical military battles and warfare wasn't for basic knowledge but to learn about our current enemy leaders. The phrase "History Repeats Itself" is an actual fact. The Psychological function of most if not all leaders has a habitual pattern.
I was nato favored very much in my History or even English classes in college as I would often in times have to correct a master of their trade. But then again, it's no time there fault they did not have access to that information at the time. As you well know, governments in all countries monitor what is put in writing.

SFC George Smith Bingo.

SFC (Join to see) - thank you Mary. Your right the treaty of Versailles might as well have been a declaration of war for countries like Japan and Germany who felt put out toward the end Germany even scuttled it's whole navy to prevent the British from getting there hands on the battleships. Japan was treated like a second class member causing them to walk out on the league of nations all but assuring that Japan would proceed at it's own interests just played and the extremely harsh reparations against Germany left them broke and throw in the Great Depression that was just recipe for disaster.

PFC (Join to see) Recommended reading about the "complexities" leading up to WWI: "The Guns of August," Pulitlzer Prize-winning book by Barbara Tuchman.

Capt Christian D. Orr - I'll buy them thank you sir

PFC (Join to see) - You're very welcome, enjoy! BTW, thanks for that article you linked; it brings up some very interesting facts and perspective. To be sure, Germany received a grossly and disproportionately unreasonable share of the blame for the so-called "Great War" in the Treaty of Versailles. That said, however, in the interest of being balanced and objective, I would also respectively submit that the author(s) of the piece rather short-sightedly gloss over the jingoistic agendas of German generals and field marshals like von Schliefen, Ludendorff....and oh yeah, not to mention "Kaiser Bill" himself.

Food for thought. Just my $0.02 worth.