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Sweet god, Castex!

posted by [personal profile] elanya at 03:24pm on 02/09/2004
I'm in the final chapter, eight pages from the end, and at last he shows his true colours in writing...

Thanks to fortunate circumstances and, especially, to the mastery of the sea, our continent has managed to escape domination by any single power. Supposing, however, that one of the troublemakers of the past had succeeded in bending Europe to its yoke, power would have at least remained in the hands of those members of the human family best suited by their superior culture and mentality to exercise it.

We have seen worse possibilities. We have seen attempts to overwhelm the white Western world by Asian or African barbarism. Our race, humanity's leaders, has several times been on the verge of engulfment by huge waves that would drown all civilization and progess. . . .

Castex, Raoul (Admiral)

1994 Strategic Theories, ed. Eugenia Kiesling. Naval Institue Press, Maryland.
Mood:: 'contemplative' contemplative
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posted by [identity profile] fritzleonhardt.livejournal.com at 12:47pm on 02/09/2004
OH MY GOD! I see worse possibilities! What about a wave of ZOMBIE Asian barbarism? THE HORROR! the horror...
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posted by [identity profile] skjaere.livejournal.com at 12:51pm on 02/09/2004
guh! glah? WTF?!
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posted by [identity profile] elanya.livejournal.com at 01:03pm on 02/09/2004
As I've said elsewhere... He was a mouthy, faschist, jerk!
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posted by [identity profile] forthright.livejournal.com at 01:00pm on 02/09/2004
When was this first published?
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posted by [identity profile] curtana.livejournal.com at 01:01pm on 02/09/2004
Buddy died in 1968, so sometime before that...
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posted by [identity profile] elanya.livejournal.com at 01:02pm on 02/09/2004
That part would have come out around 1939.
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posted by [identity profile] forthright.livejournal.com at 01:13pm on 02/09/2004
Wow, that's really virulent and blatant for 1939!
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posted by [identity profile] elanya.livejournal.com at 01:22pm on 02/09/2004
Yup! I *said* he was mouthy!
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posted by [identity profile] forthright.livejournal.com at 01:26pm on 02/09/2004
Now I'm sitting here trying to figure out what 'waves' of non-white peoples he could be talking about, instead of finishing my plot like a good boy. Damn you, woman!
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posted by [identity profile] elanya.livejournal.com at 01:34pm on 02/09/2004
He is afraid of Asia and Russia, but mostly, he is talking about historical examples, like the Turks.
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posted by [identity profile] forthright.livejournal.com at 01:41pm on 02/09/2004
Yes, well, I got up to three (possibly four):

1) Arabs
2) Mongols
3) Turks
4) Huns (?)

I suppose that would count as enough, for his purposes. Although none of those conflicts were won due to sea power, I must point out!
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posted by [identity profile] elanya.livejournal.com at 01:59pm on 02/09/2004
But in a modern war, it would be significant ;)

Ironically, he seemed to side a bit with germany, in seeing the Japanese as the 'civilized exception', to an extent, to general Asian barbarianism. "Only Japan does not have its place marked in the Western plan as a factor of order in the presence of Asuiatic disorder."
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posted by [identity profile] forthright.livejournal.com at 02:09pm on 02/09/2004
Well, if it was published in 1939, it was written in '37 or '38 at the latest, and there was no real reason to believe that very shortly Japan would be allied with Germany and Italy.
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posted by [identity profile] astatine210.livejournal.com at 02:56pm on 02/09/2004
Riiight. And would this be the same Japan that killed three hundred thousand people in Nanking in 1937?
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posted by [identity profile] elanya.livejournal.com at 07:59pm on 02/09/2004
I said it was ironic!
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posted by [identity profile] skjaere.livejournal.com at 01:18pm on 02/09/2004
OK, I am slightly less shocked than when I thought this might have been published any time in the last 20 years or so. Still, what an arse!
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posted by [identity profile] vureoelt.livejournal.com at 01:45pm on 02/09/2004
Ching-wah tsao duh liou mahng!
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