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I think this page is in need of some cleanup; the capitalization, sentence structure, and style (particularly in the section on warfare in the Ancient World) is pretty bad.--69.247.109.215 14:39, 3 July 2006 (UTC)fourmajorman

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Cruise Missiles invented by the USA in 1982? The linked article clarifies this, though.

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Conscription has been one of the fundamentals of many political organisation (think of the Athenian 'Pyle', the Roman farmer-soldier, the Saxon 'Fyrd', etc. Josh will probably know some better examples) Please correct me, but conscription is more ancient than the professional soldiery, which, if I remember correctly, was introduced in Rome by Marius in the second (or first?) century B.C. -- Mathijs

maybe not so much conscription as the EXPECTATION of universal service for those eligible. That seems to be true of hoplite warfare. The Romans practiced conscription in the Punic wars, though I don't know if we know how they handled it. --MichaelTinkler

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Feb 26 2002: wondering if the list of generals should be elsewhere, or at least classified by conflicts. --Christopher mahan

I can see a problem with classifying by conflict -- lots of duplicate links...Just think of Kitchener, Gordon, Patton, Custer.... JHK

Hum, I've been seeing plural entries beginning to pop up here and there that are just lists of links. I'm not sure if I really like the practice, but I do see the utility of such a scheme. Would an article named Famous generals be out of line? --maveric149

Feb 27 2002: I think that if there is an article for famous generals (or Famous military commanders) there needs to be a minimal summary for each, such as conflicts involved in and life defining events. --Christopher Mahan

Sounds good to me. --maveric149

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Some "purposes" for military history are given in this article. Would the "discouragement of war" be considered another reason to study military history? That's the key reason I like reading military history. Or is military history a bit too jingoistic to properly support pacifism? EmRick

It could be a reason, but are there more besides yourself? There could be all kinds of reasons to study it, but we only want to list the ones with significant numbers of people. H.G. Wells perhaps? Stan 07:31, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC)

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It can't be right to have fictional battles in this section http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Coruscant

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Are there any references that there were no "no social roles or divisions of labor (with the exception of age or sex differences)"? That seems like an awfully strong claim.

[edit] "Probably"????

In that same paragraph, there is the line "Probably, during periods of famine, hunters started to massively attack...". That is the worst Wikipedia statement I have ever heard. With total disregard to sociology and the like, the author of this paragraph makes useless the research of theories of, for example, people acquiring resources and using them to gain power over others, in effect becoming the first leaders. Wikipedia articles are not based on "probably"! If they were, any person's opinion or argument, no matter how uninformed, uneducated, or simply inadequately pondered upon, would be made equal with a well thought out idea. This is unacceptable. I hope that "probably guy" is reading this...

ps. Since I believe in the example listed, it is very frustrating to see such "misinformation" being spread via Wikipedia, intentionally or not... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.69.14.35 (talk) 07:22, 18 March 2007 (UTC).

pps. I have changed the paragraph to my own "probably". The original author may argue for their sources, if they exist, but since they have not been listed, I believe that I am justified in stating the "probably" that I have been taught in Socio 101, since I also have a source (which I will also not list).