Talk:Gaelic warfare

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[edit] Suspect ?

Unless there are bibliographic references for this information, I consider much of it suspect. Gaelicmichael 19:15, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Agreed, but I don't see the point of it myself. On the other hand, the obvious places to merge or redirect to are rubbish as well. Medieval warfare is a case in point. (A useful pointer is to see how soon these things mention stirrups. The greater the prominence, the less the authors know about the subject as a whole. Medieval warfare manages to mention them in the first sentence of the first paragraph of the main article.) A real article on Gaelic warfare would deal with cattle raiding and cattle killing and arson, the three main aspects of warfare. Oh, and there was the occasional battle. It really spend its time on tedious matters like "How was an army raised ?", "How was it fed on campaign ?", "Why did people fight wars and what did they expect to achieve ?" and such like, the sort of things you'll find in books and articles by the likes of Verbruggen, Bacharach, Lynn and so on, rather than the wargamery, toy soldier collection, LARP/reenactment nonsense which informs the majority of writing on the web and usenet. I think most people have a fair grasp of what an axe is, and how to whack somebody with one, so that the usual thud and blunder style, while it reads well, doesn't really inform. "What, me with a bee in my bonnet ?" You could be right. Angus McLellan (Talk) 18:26, 1 April 2006 (UTC)