Thread 64484334

It's always just
>Placename War
>Country A-Country B War
>Country Civil War (2025)

>>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.

>>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.

>>64484334 (OP)
You don't think Global War on Terror was a cool name?

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

>>64484691
>cattle killing movement
Cow bros not like this....
>>64484703
I keep forgetting the G stands for global rather than great in GWOT.

>>64484703
>>64484746
I thought it was George W. Obliterating Towelheads

>>64484334 (OP)
Yom Kippur War is basically like [insert holiday] War

>>64484334 (OP)
For me it's the War of Jenkins' Ear

>>64484334 (OP)
Tiny Hat War doesn't sound *that* cool anon

>>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.

>>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.

>>64484334 (OP)
Postmodernism and the lack of belief in grand narratives

>>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

>>64484746
>Great Writers on Terror

>>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"

>>64485301
Someday we'll have a revolution and have to start calling the founding war the "War of Independence".

>>64484746
>>64484884
I thought it meant Great Waste Of Trillions

>>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

>>64487440
>BLM Revolution
The more I think about this one, the worse the mental image gets.

>>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

>>64484334 (OP)
I assume the cool names are given at least a few years after the war has concluded

>>64487510
Yeah, it'd be horrifying if the bureau of land management overthrew the government

>>64487950
Simchat makes it sound like the war was triggered by some chat room disagreement.

>>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.