A Tungan Rebel |
May's Mostly Warfare Blog
This is a blog created to do the daunting task of covering virtually every topic of military history, along with other topics (mostly analyzing young adult series or criminal cases) that appear in the author's mind. I will also cover other academic topics occasionally.
Sunday, February 21, 2016
Xianjiang Revolts aganist China and Russia's Ambition
A Soviet backed rebel in the Ili rebellion. WW2 in Xinjing
was a very fascinating and extremely confusing affair. The Soviets and
the Russian Empire before it always had a deep desire for the Central
Asian region of China. During the Tungan uprisings in the 1860s, the
Russian Empire was establishing its influence in the region when the
various Islamic tribes temporarily drove the Qing Dynasty government
away from the region. However, the Qing Dynasty retook the region before
Russia could fully annex it. Even after
the fall of the Russian Empire and the rise of the Soviets, Soviet
Russia was still extremely interested in the Region. The Qing Dynasty
also had fallen, and was eventually replaced by the KMT government. The
KMT government still had to deal with the Islamic uprisings in the
region. The Soviet Union constantly invaded the region and riled up
Islamic Rebels to rebel against the KMT government. Strangely, the
remnants of the Russian White Army (they were defeated by the Soviet
Russians in the Russian Civil War)
and White refugee settlers willingly allied themselves with the Soviet
Union against the KMT government. Despite the fact that THE SOVIET UNION
DROVE THEM TO XINJING IN THE 1ST PLACE! Even during WW2, when the Soviet Union still backed Islamic rebels and battled KMT armies in Xinjing
even when it was aiding the KMT against the Japanese army. Even after
the defeat of the KMT and the take over of the Mao Zedong's Communist
party (a so called "ally" of the Soviet Union), the Soviet Union still
tried to steal Xinjing from China. Who controlled Xiniing was a bitter debated issue during the Soviet-Chinese cold war. The Soviet Union still continued to support anti-Chinese separatist groups. The Chinese government to this day still has to deal with Xinjing
separatist movements, some with alleged connections to Al-Queda. I
don't know how Russia is involved with those separatist movements in the present day
.
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Monday, January 11, 2016
Tuesday, January 5, 2016
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
My blog's one year anniversary
Its official, my blog has been around for exactly a year last month. It's amazing. Although I have rarely posted these days, but it was always was a good way for me to share my interests and view. Thanks for all the support that my readers gave me.
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Article about Religions
Here are some interesting sister articles about the age of various world religions. They are a bit interesting.
1.http://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/religion101/2012/10/how-old-are-the-religions.html
2.http://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/religion101/?p=1038
1.http://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/religion101/2012/10/how-old-are-the-religions.html
2.http://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/religion101/?p=1038
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Battle of Grunwald 1410 Brief Synopsis
Kossack's Battle of Grunwald, 1921 |
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
U-28 Monster
Diventart user's concept of the U-28 monster |
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
APRD rebels
The People's Army for the Restoration of Democracy (APRD) was one of the many rebel groups operating in the Central African Republic (CAR). They originated as the presidential guards, and was one of the last rebel groups to sign a peace treaty with the Bozize regime. However they appear to not have joined the factions of other rebel groups like Convention of Patriots for Justice and Peace (CPJP), Union of Democratic Forces for Unity (UFDR), the Patriotic Convention for Saving the Country (CPSK), along with other rebel groups in the Seleka (Sango word meaning "alliance, covered in on of my previous posts) coalition after the peace talks in 2011 failed. Here is a gallery of APRD fighters bellow.
These fighters are so poorly equipped that I at 1st thought that they were Anti Balaka militias. |
Monday, May 18, 2015
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Intervening in Genocide
Intervening in Genocide, as terrible as it sounds is actually a really bad idea.
1.You would have to take down the genocide perpetrators by force. The perpetrators are obviously not going to stop the killings no matter what international pressure says
2.When you do intervene militarily, civilians are guaranteed to be killed in the crossfire, defeating the entire purpose of a humanitarian intervention.
3.You would have to ally with the enemies of the perpetrators. Often times, the enemies of the perpetrators are just as brutal as the perpetrators themselves. Also, that is totally defeating your purpose of the intervention. For example in the Liberian Civil War, literally every single faction (INPFL, NPFL, LPC, ULIMO-J, ULIMO-K) practiced cannibalism, rape, and used child soldiers. So if you wanted to intervene against the brutal NPFL, you would have to ally with a bunch of cannibalistic child soldiers. Not something that would go very well with public opinion
4.Since in most wars, all sides commit atrocities. To make matters more complicated, there's almost always an oppressive dictatorship warring against dozens (sometimes thousands) of vicious marauding rebel groups. If you want to have a purely humanitarian intervention, you would literally have to battle hundreds of rebel groups, along with the government forces. For example in the Congo, various rebel groups like RCD splinters (RCD-Goma, RCD-K, RCD-K-ML, RCD-Original, UPC, RCD-ML, RCD-North, PUSIC, RCD-National), foreign rebel groups (FDLR, ADF, LRA, UNRF 2, WNBF, CNDD), indigenous tribal militias called mayi mayi, the Kabila regime, foreign governments like Rwanda, Uganda, and Burundi all commit horrific atrocities against the civilian population. If you want to stop atrocities, you would have to battle more than 25 armed groups and 8 national armies. Waging such a multi front war would really drain your military resources.
5.Once you topple the genocidal government, you would have to make sure that the roles of victim and perpetrators don’t get reversed. You would get the former victims angry because you are depriving them of their revenge, and you would be fighting the former victims as well. Like in the Rwandan Genocide, once you toppled the Hutu government, you would have to make sure that the Tutsi groups don’t start killing the Hutus. It might make the Tutsi groups angry at you if you try to prevent them from getting their revenge against their former oppressors. So you might be fighting the very people that you tried to protect.
6.Because of both remnants of the former genocidal government and other groups taking the void of the former government would be still waging guerilla warfare against your occupying forces, you might be stuck in that country for several decades before the situation is finally solved. If you try to leave right away, a new group would immediately take power. For example when the US Coalition left Iraq, the Iraqi government was still corrupt and weak. It didn’t have the military power to crush the insurgent groups like ISIS, other Sunni militant groups, along with the Baathists that were normally contained by the Coalition forces.
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