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Anonymous No.64484334 [Report] >>64484358 >>64484703 >>64484890 >>64484898 >>64484963 >>64485005 >>64485096 >>64485139 >>64485301 >>64487950 >>64488000
Why don't they give wars cool names anymore?
It's always just
>Placename War
>Country A-Country B War
>Country Civil War (2025)
Anonymous No.64484358 [Report] >>64484691
>>64484334 (OP)
Because wars involving the same combatants over and over again are relatively rare. Jews vs Arabs happened every couple years so they all got distinct names.
Same with wars of the past. When Britain and Austria go to war with France for the sixth time in a decade you need to come up with names to tell the different wars apart.
Anonymous No.64484691 [Report] >>64484746
>>64484358
Not necessarily, if there's a cycle of warfare very predictable and boring historians will just start to sigh and call it the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War or whatever.
Anonymous No.64484703 [Report] >>64484746 >>64484884 >>64485301
>>64484334 (OP)
You don't think Global War on Terror was a cool name?
Anonymous No.64484723 [Report]
It's diplomatic convention, to avoid the eternal shit fight over naming historical conflicts.

Only retards and retarded counties get into mud throwing fights over the names of historical conflict
Anonymous No.64484746 [Report] >>64484884 >>64485258 >>64485317
>>64484691
>cattle killing movement
Cow bros not like this....
>>64484703
I keep forgetting the G stands for global rather than great in GWOT.
Anonymous No.64484884 [Report] >>64485317
>>64484703
>>64484746
I thought it was George W. Obliterating Towelheads
Anonymous No.64484890 [Report]
>>64484334 (OP)
Yom Kippur War is basically like [insert holiday] War
Anonymous No.64484898 [Report]
>>64484334 (OP)
For me it's the War of Jenkins' Ear
Anonymous No.64484963 [Report]
>>64484334 (OP)
Tiny Hat War doesn't sound *that* cool anon
Anonymous No.64485005 [Report] >>64485014
>>64484334 (OP)
Most wars are named after the fact to concisely summarize it. During it it's almost always just known as "the war". Then once it has concluded it can be named. For example: the winter war was named so after the fact because it only lasted the winter.
Anonymous No.64485014 [Report] >>64485301
>>64485005
PS. so then, an ongoing war isn't going to get a cool name, and on top of this it usually requires a later war to start so the previous war can be named; to set it apart from the new war.
Anonymous No.64485096 [Report]
>>64484334 (OP)
Postmodernism and the lack of belief in grand narratives
Anonymous No.64485139 [Report]
>>64484334 (OP)
Most wars with special names earned the status, local conflicts just dont tend to because they dont make big enough of a splash or are not funny enough
Anonymous No.64485258 [Report]
>>64484746
>Great Writers on Terror
Anonymous No.64485301 [Report] >>64485306
>>64484334 (OP)

We had the Twelve Day War coined by Trump not five months ago.

>>64484703

Too Newspeakish

>>64485014
>someday Wikipedia will have to change the name from "American Civil War" to "First American Civil War"
Anonymous No.64485306 [Report] >>64487440
>>64485301
Someday we'll have a revolution and have to start calling the founding war the "War of Independence".
Anonymous No.64485317 [Report]
>>64484746
>>64484884
I thought it meant Great Waste Of Trillions
Anonymous No.64487440 [Report] >>64487510
>>64485306

They'll just call the "*insert revolutionary faction/random color here* Revolution"

>Trumpist Revolution
>MAGA Revolution
>BLM Revolution
>Antifa Revolution
>Red Revolution
>White Revolution
>Blue Revolution

Or alternatively just the Second American Revolution
Anonymous No.64487510 [Report] >>64488010
>>64487440
>BLM Revolution
The more I think about this one, the worse the mental image gets.
Anonymous No.64487950 [Report] >>64488470
>>64484334 (OP)
You can call the Israel-Hamas war the Simchat Torah War since it also started in a Jewish Holiday, it doesn’t have the same kino ring to it as the Yom Kippur War though
Anonymous No.64488000 [Report]
>>64484334 (OP)
I assume the cool names are given at least a few years after the war has concluded
Anonymous No.64488010 [Report]
>>64487510
Yeah, it'd be horrifying if the bureau of land management overthrew the government
Anonymous No.64488470 [Report] >>64490859
>>64487950
Simchat makes it sound like the war was triggered by some chat room disagreement.
Anonymous No.64490859 [Report]
>>64488470
>be hamas
>in chatroom with mossad
>ask them where the fuck the checks are
>they drop out because some cheap heeb at mossad hq bought the shittiest router and it couldn't handle the bandwidth
>hamas thinks they got scammed
>launch Oct 7
Far more interesting set up than some dune coons got uppity.