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Excerpts from On Violence & War, by K. B. Robertson, Copyright 1997, all rights reserved.
(With acknowledgement, may be produced for educational, non commercial purposes)

About awry, so called Historical Revisionism and the growing popularity of waving the past off as being an irrelevant, unworthy, relatively unimportant consideration (having by definition, directly to do with the arrival of the present, and where it came from: the past, therefore, also having to do with where the present, transitions to the future. Subjecting and citing the popular dismissal, underestimation and/or denial of past history, large and small. Large history being the sum total of its miniscule components); as not being a retroactive extension of the present, and as not (therefore) being ingenuous, or applicable to, or connected with the future. (Refer George Orwell's 1984 ‘memory hole’, and the ‘thought police’).

Revisionally projecting the here and now upon the there and then, and conversely; simultaneously proclaiming history to be unimportant. Projecting on the past with superimpositional historical revisions, omissions and sometimes boldly intruded fictional displacements in and from the present.

Example:

The universal contemporary icon of the prehistoric cave man with a club over his shoulder, dragging a woman with a bump on her head, to his cave. The rape mentality’s most famously believed Big Lie. An enormously popular and massively surrendered to; equally false and tragically misunderstood: deliberately perpetuated and reinforced, encouraged, supplicated, thence self-creating an academy thanking and worshipping - highly rewarded, coveted, emulated - aped; sought after and often swooned over archetype. The archetypically false, amok-male role model. The Male Sexist Oracle.

Whereas:
Paleontological and anthropological science knows what prehistoric Neanderthal; Cro-Magnon, hominid people looked like, and what they ate, and a few of their crude tools. That, they showed empathy for and helped - did not ignore, ostracize or abandon - injured or ill persons; a little bit about their burial rites. But no one in the scientifically contingent world today would publicly state beyond some hunting techniques, any detailed social or quasi-cultural behavior of these primitive people - let alone project the much assumed mating ritual of rape on prehistorical human behavior. On the other hand, Modern Man shows a telling affection for this pure fantasy.

Comparing a pack of rutting alley cats gang-raping a female feline as an exemplary natural event is forgetting altogether that the test subjects here are taken out of territorially boundaried context and imposed - perhaps several dozen cats at a time, in a city block. This is not a natural territorial setting. The behavior of cats, for example, in such a non-territorially established, artificial, human imposed environment results in aberrant domestic feline (or domestic canine) rape behavior.

The aberrant behavior, because it is conducted by animals, is falsely labeled natural. Blaming destructive, cruel and unusual human behavior, on the animals; who in their natural environment, rarely if ever lie, rape or make organized warfare to the co-specific (same species) death, or recreationally/ sadomasochistically brutalize or take life. A cat playing with a trapped mouse is not sadomasochistically motivated: he is practicing; becoming familiar with the prey. Yes. He’s even having ‘fun’, but he is not perversely motivated. Only people - very uniquely, in the Animal Kingdom - are capable of that.

People: only humanly being the singular animal who can transcend Nature itself; and then call that transition - ‘because it happens’ - natural, and/or ‘the will of God’.

Domestic and/or zooified animals occasionally do aberrant things (sometimes eating their own fecal material, for example), having artificial environment and ensuing unnatural experience (crazymaking) imposed on them, by humans.

The dominant, amok male paradigm (club wielding ape man dragging woman by hair with bump on her head to his cave) prevails. Taken seriously and laughed about as a reverently archetypicalized refuge for the normalization of violence including rape; as though there must be something to it back there and then, just as there (epidemically) is in the here and now.

Where false judgments and rationalizations such as these have been taken seriously and repeated and agreed with and laughed about enough times to be accepted as true. A deadly spiral condemned to repeat and prolifically reproduce and confirm its ‘manifest destiny’ pontificating self.

Unlearning from history and falsely replacing and replicating it. ‘Proving’ the past with the perversely revisory present.

Grotesquely, fictionally, anachronistically and predatorily perceived today, the way the present man (desperately and compulsively) wants to perceive past man’s (completely speculative and presumed) behavior (justifying rape therefore <along with murder - to be strongly distinguished from killing; which qualification - the difference between killing and murder - will be established more clearly in future discussions, herein>, as ‘natural’ <co-specific, human vs. human> behavior).

The present man, having no comparative evidence - except the present and 6,500 years of recovered written history; civilization - by definition meaning citification, and an entirely different environment for homosapiens (who, by anthropology and related sciences, are compared to *zooified animals <who do not behave the way they do in the wild> - the counterpart for humanity living in *cities (rather than villages or small towns); *a relatively new human phenomenon - to support this kind of behavior (rape, murder, unredeemed violence), based on the mere 6,500 years of civilized humanity (as old as and parallel with the written word): alongside of the three and a half million year, generally unknown history and behavior of the human species. Where, today’s parlor and street variety social and anthropomorphic representative and pseudo mentor speaks out and rationalizes as though rape and homicide and slavery and massively cruel - trans primitive and ritual (*real and *true) - warfare prevailed in and was naturally and normally acted out, in the past. (*Clauzewitzean *definitions, refer ON WAR, by Karl Von Clauzewitz.)

The dominant paradigm being the false rationalization that rape and murder, and co-specific - human vs. human - violence is a biological imperative and not learned behavior; that such behavior is inherent to the human condition. Refer, The Doctrine Of Innate Depravity. Sub concepts of original sin, Social Darwinism, The Killer Ape as prototypical human.

Proponents & contestants of this debate include: R. Ardrey. A. Montague. C. Lorenz. Dr. & Ms. Leaky. L. Tiger. E. Morgan. D. Morris. J. Goodall, the authors of ON WAR (Clausewitz, 1797), ON AGGRESSION (Lorenz, 1960) and ON KILLING (Grossman, 1996). With an international host of distinguished paleontologists, anthropologists / ethnologists / ethologists. Refer, the Nature vs. Nurture (biologically imparted vs learned behavior) schools of thought.

All of the above exemplary sources of bibliographical information are to be considered herein, as qualified supportive and/or referential annotations for the foregoing work by K.B. Robertson: ON VIOLENCE. The *Dominant Paradigm (in this ongoing bi polar debate on causes and effects of human vs. human - co-specific - violence) Prevails:

*BRUTE FORCE (often equated in money and awry political power as well as physical strength and weapons), INTIMIDATION, and RAW FEAR - Supreme Arbiter Of Everything.

Dubiously Retrogressing To The Archetypically Unbeatable Belief Systematized Caveman With A Club Over His Shoulder Dragging a Woman With A Bump On Her Head Toward His Cave. - K. B. Robertson (to be continued in 'Reply'.)

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Part II, Violence & War (Social Dynamics Beyond the Breaking Point), by K. B. Robertson, continued:

The Big Bang Ganging Unreality Industry, continued:
All of this disproved and/or unproved, non-scientifically popular guesswork powerfully normalizing (very often through detailed visual imagery; as humor, and/or the facts of life; human nature, describing as a biological imperative that which is not biologically programmed but is instead learned behavior <refer the argument of Nature vs Nurture>; etc.), archetypicalizing - and creating tolerance thresholds for - the crime and epidemic quantitative frequency of all forms of unredeemed, unjustifiable, capriciously and predatory-reward-motivated violence.

Particularly the physical abuse of women and children, including physical rape; as well as unprovoked verbal put-downs and got'chas; variously packaged, identically motivated one-up-man-ships: in the sexist male paradigm dominated present. The empowerment and gratification of self at the expense of others. Maliciously depriving others of security in order to fulfill a feeling of security and/or power - in self (Refer, ‘power tripping’ - Friedrich Nietztche’s ‘Will To Power’). An accompanying policy of wide spectrum victim-blaming. (‘God’s will. She asked for it. What she wants. Made me do it. Dressed to kill. Wearing too much make up. In the wrong neighborhood’; etc., Social Darwinism, reptile minded victim blaming, ad nauseam.)

Disingenuously: a naked woman in the shower, on the other hand (reflected in the blade of a straight razor), is definitely not DRESSED TO KILL. BASIC INSTINCT and NATURAL BORN KILLERS, promulgating the same conceptual alibi. Based on a presumed biological imperative that is far from proven to exist at all.
On the other hand, such behavior can be learned and taken for granted and falsely taught as human nature; a murderous basic instinct. A naked woman in the shower (reflected in a straight razor held by a male predator) 'dressed to kill' can be bought and sold easily in this marketplace of excitement and extra cheap - undeniably real - thrills. But then again, every mesmerized PSYCHO viewer is entitled to their own crazymaking, artificial experience surrendered, assailant-identifying (feeling, emotionally influenced) opinion.
(None of the viewers identifying with the 14 inch butcher-knifed, very beautiful, very bleeding, very dead or dying woman. The majority of viewers inadvertently identifying with the assailant - the survivor; the - 'slas-her'/'kill-her' - winner <Non identification with the designated and/or assigned, foreordained, victimized losers also leads to rationalizing that the victim deserves and is responsible for his or her victimization: the final nod: the conquest of reason itself>: ‘Ah. Splatter’, the final - ‘therapeutically entertaining and educational’ - word of relief from the Santa Cruz Express SPLATTER MOVIE REVIEW, 9/‘84. Segue to butcherknife-proof shower curtain and prime beef rib GINSU kitchen utensil comm.)

There prevails a tenacious penchant for projecting a disproved or unproved concept of the past, onto the present (often in the name of entertainment and/or education) as though it were (therefore) reasonable behavioral currency. Characteristically accompanied (maintained, protected, diverted from) by an actively ambitious, aggressive policy of denial. Ignoring or falsely revising history and foreordaining the considered future; for the past 6,500 years.

The tragically avoidable repetition of easily avoidable destructive behavior (refer George Santayana, of contemporary Italy: ‘Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it.’ Hegel’s Cycle - a measured law - Of History: found cyclically repeating itself). Out to reestablish and confirm a limitless number of agreed upon conclusions that are based on otherwise abundantly proven, entirely false premises. Hence, the employment of the ‘memory hole’, in Orwell's 1984. To insure that the present has no (known) past to be compared with and thereby learned from...

"The purpose of NEWSPEAK is to make other modes of thought impossible. Its a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. DOUBLETHINK, they call it. As in LOVE IS HATE. And WAR IS PEACE." - George Orwell, 1984.

The abuse of power as policy has many allies. Among its most required needs, an important operational fuel of power abuse is simultaneous denial. Accompanied by methodological creation of false issues, frequently capitalizing on and specializing in creating: diversions. Giving whatever designated target, ‘something to deny’. Blaming the victim.

Assignment of irrelevant goals and enemies that do not exist. Scapegoat and Cry Wolfism looms large in the tactical - accountability averting, responsibility reversing - diversion methods. Blurring reality; focusing and otherwise zooming-in on fiction as fact. Creation and maintenance of false issues as viable currency. Lies abound here. Boldly asserted lies, aggressively told. Characteristically defying the beholder to know the difference - or even the existence - of truth from falsity. Not only to believe in falsehood, but to aggressively maintain and protect it. A remarkably large percentage of Americans today hesitate extensively, when asked if they know the difference between good and bad.

They have been programmed ‘not to be judgmental’. Example:
*"There ain't no good guys. There ain't no bad guys. There's just you and me. And we just disagree."
- A popular lyric, emanating out of the Hollywood Entertainment Industry.

"He was brutaly handsome and she was terminally pretty! They had one thing in common! They were both good in bed!"
- Ibid


Who profits from such misunderstandings?
The good guys, or the bad guys?

*An oath of personal impotence. The attitude and philosophy of the popular and dominant paradigm. Refer, ‘the will of God’, ‘manifest destiny’, and variously employed misusages of the word ‘karma.’ Creating and maintaining a general social environment occupied by people who have surrendered to the idea that when destructive human aggression happens, it is a foregone event over which no one has any power or potential control. A much surrendered-to call-to-surrender ones individual powers.

"Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him." - Jonathan Swift

(Excerpt from On Violence, copyright 1997, by K. B. Robertson. With acknowledgement, may be reproduced for educational and non commercial purposes.)

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In a recent discussion with a sincere 'anti-war-pro-peace advocate, this record offered that it had attended a meeting, of peace proponents - an array of Committees for Non Violence - from all over the United States and Europe, who met at SWORDS & PLOW-SHARES on Mission Street In San Francisco in the early 1980’s. There were many different and oppositional view-points expressed at that time and place as to what might or not be the best way to create and maintain peace In the world. One point, however, that everyone there uniformly agreed on was, that each and every sovereign nation must keep and maintain a standing military for self defense purposes in order to assure peace as well as to risk war, of course.

I asked the subjected, peace promulgating man of the ‘90’s if he knew of any nation in the world that didn't have a military, since he had interrupted the record to proclaim that the abolition of militarism should have happened a long time ago, and that ‘war doesn’t accomplish anything’, resolving that 'some countries don't have a military'. I asked him what countries he was referring to. He hesitated for a full thirty seconds, finally 'answering' with a question:
'Switzerland?’
The record reminded the young peacemaker that Switzerland may be the most fortified country in the world and has one of the most highly trained and well equipped standing armies and, that what he had probably confused for the absence of a military was in fact Switzerland's traditional policy of ‘neutrality' when it comes to wars on the European continent... The well intended, characteristically underinformed adversary reluctantly agreed. He could not furthermore think of any 'other' country that doesn't have a standing military, at least for self-defensive purposes... (Puerto Rico is without a military, but is protected by the United States; as are the East and West Indies.)

All of this is to consider the importance of understanding what it is that you are opposed to, and especially in the spirit of being opposed to war itself. Antiwar activism In Vietnam between 1965 and 1975 would mean nothing - except treason - to the Vietnamese people, who were obliged at that time to fight a defensive war. Ostensibly, some wars are perceived differently, depending on the perspective of the aggressor or the defender. That is to say, there are In fact 'right' wars and 'wrong' wars. 'Good' warmakers and 'bad' warmakers. These are some of the differences between defensive warfare and offensive warfare; between obligatory killing and 'optional', avoidable murder; esp. when the oppressor is assured of success.

Blessed Be The Peacemakers:
Abolishing war is a very high and well-intended goal therefore. But Sun Tzu, author of the 2,000 year old THE ART OF WAR (based on the I CHING; translated to English and distributed for the lst time in the U.S., in 1988), strongly advises - whenever possible - the studying of every enemy to the fullest degree possible, before the engagement of that enemy.

That is to say, in order to eliminate the acknowledged scourge - and unfortunately accompanying constructive industrial, scientific, medicinal and theological tonic - of war from the socio-human experience, it is best to understand as much as possible about what it is we are attempting to abolish;and how that accomplishment may be most realistically - and expediently - achieved: how and what non-destructive incentive(s) may inspire people to industrious, scientific and social progression: without the abominably costly motivational impetus of war.

'Humanity must put an end to war; before war puts an end to humanity'.
- J.F.K.

"In times of war: truth is the first casualty.”
- Sen. Hiram Johnson, 1917
(Paraphrased from An ancient Greek axiom)

“When you tell the truth, be sure you have one foot in the stirrup.”
- An Old Mongol Proverb

The European culture at large, certainly including the United States, Is in fact for, these self-revealing reasons of historical ignorance, socially instilled denial, and Informational evasion, alarmingly ill-equipped to fullfill the agreed-upon noble mission of the peacemakers: who are quick to oppose war, and equally reluctant to understand what it is that they disagree and conflict with.

In John Keegan's A HISTORY OF WARFARE, copyright 1994, he quotes Aldous Huxley proclaiming that + ‘An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex .’
Keegan goes on to say that +’A civilized person is definable as someone who has found something more interesting than combat ( war/ violence )’.
- Kent Benjamin Robertson
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Book Reviews and exerpts follow. All statements marked with an asterisk - * - are the narrative statements of Kent Benjamin Robertson - KBR - editor of the following anthological collection of book reviews.
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Notes On Warfare - Causes & Effects
“Jericho, perhaps European civilization’s first walled city, with moat and a tower (citadel). Fortified against raids by inhabitants of the arid zone (grassland steppes of untillable soil) beyond Jericho’s agricultural base. The stored grains of farmers were probably not the raider’s goal, whereas, the farmer’s livestock - and people for slaves - probably was the incentive of the aggressors.”
- Paraphrased from John Keegan’s WAR AND OUR WORLD
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Excerpts from Gwynne Dyer’s WAR, Copyright 1985, follow:

“To begin quite close to the end: we may inhabit the Indian summer of human history, with nothing to look forward to but the ‘nuclear winter’ that closes the account. The war for which the great powers hold themselves in readiness every day may come, as hundreds of others have in the past. The megatons will fall, the dust will rise, the sun’s light will fail, and the race may perish.

Nothing is inevitable until it has actually happened, but the final war is undeniably a possibility, and there is one statistical certainty. Any event that has a definite probability, however small, that does not decrease with time will eventually occur - next year, next decade, next century, but it will come. Including nuclear war.

It is therefore the dilemma and the duty of our generation, and as many more as have time to be born, to learn how to make the probability of nuclear war shrink and eventually vanish. Since the scientific and organizational abilities that have swollen war to this monstrous scale cannot be forgotten, the task is even larger: to discover how to dispense with war altogether. The starting point must be to see the institution of war as a whole and to understand how it works.

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Nomads, Civilization & War, copyright 1996 by K. B. Robertson.
With acknowledgement, may be produced for educational and non commercial purposes.

Excerpts follow

The History Of Killing At A Distance:
For Foodgathering & Warfare The Arrow Of Time, Revisited.

The arrow was the preclusive inspiration for the bow, insofar as its identity as a propelled-missle emerges from its interestingly shrinking physical evolution (of 'the extension of self') - from the club: to a staff or lever: to a spear: to a more stream-lined throwing-lance propelled by the arm, then assisted by a carved stick devise (spear thrower) acting as an arm-hand extension, into the pocket of which the dull end of the spear is rested, held and thrown; imparting an even greater mechanically advantageous extensional force from the technology-enhanced aboriginal arm to the thrown-spear or lance; finally evolving to the well crafted, streamlined, one ounce 36 inch arrow propelled by a series of increasingly more powerful bow typifications, culminating in the highly crafted, 'nomadic' composite (laminated, multi-layered; self-counter-stressing) bow; equaling the strength of the European cross-bow (originated in Asia) and about three times more powerful and much smaller and more cavalry-worthy than the much later-developed, English long bow.

The bow and string-propelled arrow may be the very first machine made by humankind - a machine being man-made; having moving parts.
Note: with the evolution of the club-to-staff-to-spear-to-arrow, the ever-increasing distance between predator and prey. the hunter and the hunted, the killer and the killed.

THE COMPOSITE (recurve, laminated) BOW
By far, the most important offensive weapon developed for warfare (and food gathering) is the composite - 'recurved' ; laminated bow. Although the bow and arrow was in crude existence in several parts of EuroAsia as far back as fifty thousand years, in the ‘seIf bow' - the projectiIe-point first appearing only as a wooden point whittled sharp at the end - it evolved very slowly into what became the aerodynamically streamlined, feather fletch-stabilised, flint, obsidian and iron-tipped: most formidable light and transportable action-at-a-distance weapon known to humanity before gun-powder. That being the 'composite' (multi-material), or 're-curve', bow (earliest known appearance in what is now Iraq, in about 2500 BC); what Europeans sometimes call 'the Cupid's bow' - the most favored and feared - truly hi-tech-weapon of horsepeople cultures: for about five millennia.

From horseback the nomadic warrior is found accurately skewering geese in mid-flight and impaling enemies from 400 and more yards of distance; his weapon optionally designed to carry fire or pierce armour-plate, at about 6 - and more - rounds fired per-minute per-archer, carrying from 60 to as many as 150 bolts each. 'Thumb rings' were apparently used by all Chinese Mongols; enabling the archer to take absolute control of the all-important moment of releasing the arrow, while at the same time protecting the arrow-releasing fingers. The small devise varied in design and material but lmproved-upon what are now called ‘archer's gloves' to protect the employed fingers from repeated chafing of highly strung bowstrings, which does indeed otherwise incapacitate a busy archer in a short period of time. - K. B. Robertson
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“The oldest inscription that has survived from Mesopotamia is the Stele of the Vultures, which shows carrion birds fighting over the entrails of soldiers killed in the battle in which Eannatum of Lagash defeated the rival city state of Umma. War has been a constant companion of civilization and most of the time it has been waged with savage cruelty toward the defeated - far more remorseless and efficient cruelty than most of the world’s ‘savages’ have ever displayed. And the reason for this is contained in the way that civilization was born.

“There is practically no direct evidence regarding the political and military structure of the earliest civilizations, when various tribes in the Middle East were first learning how to grow crops and domesticate animals, and when the first villages began to grow into towns. But war must already have been changing into a disciplined business with political and economic purposes that we would understand, for as early as 7000 BC there was at least one fortified town: Jericho. The population was probably no more than two thousand, crammed into a space of about ten acres, but Jericho was surrounded by a massive wall twelve feet high and six and a half feet thick, flanked by a circular stone tower and encircled by a deep ditch. The citizens of Jericho felt they had wealth worth defending and they lived in a world where others would try to take it from them by force and could not be stopped by lesser defenses.

“It was in this earliest period, and over the next four thousand years - half of the history of civlization - that armies and states must have evolved into more or less the forms in which we know them today, but we know nothing about the details of the process, for writing had not been invented. By the time written records started about five thousand years ago, the state and the army were already fully formed institutions of great antiquity. Nevertheless, it is possible to deduce how these twin institutions emerged and grew steadily in scale and power until they towered above the mortal men who supported them.

“The basis of civilization is agriculture, which transforms the land into a valuable possession requiring protection. In many parts of the ancient Middle East this protection was probably divided at first simply by transforming the tribal warriors into a loosely organized militia. This is already a momentous change. Warfare had become a purposeful activity with serious consequences for the whole community in the case of defeat and so there was every incentive to apply human ingenuity to improving the organization and tactics of the tribal militia. But in the most fertile lands of all, in the great river valleys of the Nile and Euphrates, organization was needed on a far wider scale.

“Doubtless self interest provided some degree of voluntary cooperation among the small peasant communities living side by side in the river valleys, but it is equally certain that a significant degree of compulsion was necessary to unite their efforts We know that the compulsion was supplied by miitary force, because that was the dominant means of enforcing obedience at the time the historical record begins. It also makes logical sense the successful users of military force would gain control over a large area, which would prosper from better coordination of its efforts in farming the flood plain. The rulers of the area would then gain further power from having control over a large area, which would prosper from better coordination of its efforts in farming the flood plain. The rulers of the area would then gain further power from having control over these increased resources, and so the system becomes self sustaining and self perpetuating. The state and the city were indeed Siamese twins.”
(‘War and civlization, which were born as Siames twins, may also end together’. - Gwynne Dyer, Ibid)

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NOMADS, CIVILIZATION & WAR
An Abbreviated HISTORY OF THE EURASIAN HORSEPEOPLE
The Hinges Of History
The Grass Routes Of World Civilization
EuroAmerica’s Undone Homework & How It Is Done
The Full Circle Of Consequential Warfare
(Condensed from 415 pages)

by K B Robertson, Copyright © 1994, ‘95, '96 & 2001
(Note: The word ‘civilization’ has two correct spellings: with a ‘z’; or an ‘s’, i.e. ‘civilisation’.)
Formerly titled: THE ORIGINAL HOLOCAUST:
A Generally Unrecognized Real History Of Western Civilization And The United States

FOREWORD
What is there in common with The Domino Theory, Genghis Khan, ‘The Original Holocaust’, The Origins Of The International Slave Market, The Age Of Exploration, The New England Colonization, Global Circumnavigation, The Domino Theory: Backwards, and The Vietnam War?
QUESTION: What do these considerations have in common?
ANSWER: More than you may realize. Much more indeed.
Summary of Chapters

CHAPTER ONE
The Original Dragon's Egg
Grass: The First Living Planetary Nomad
The Pastoral Infantry Invaders
Vs
The Sedentary Agriculturists:

The Nomad Infantry & Chariot Invasions:
On World Civilization - 4400 BC

Very Early Animal Ancestors: The High Plains Adrifter
The Domestication Of The Horse
Dayshift In The Grasslands
The Cattle Culture

CHAPTER TWO
The Equine Family Stable: 4 Kinds Of Horses:
Barb, Norwegian Dun, Przhevalski & Arabian
'Barbarian' is originally the beard, on a Barb(arian) Horse
The Four Kinds Of Warfare:
Primitive-Ritual, True, Real & Nuclear Warfare
The Four Revolutions In Warfare
Chariot Warfare, Cavalry Warfare, Gunpowder & Nuclear Warfare
The Three Kinds Of Cultures:
Trading Cultures / Trading & Raiding Cultures & Raiding Cultures.
Defensive Armor:
Plate / Scale & Mail.

CHAPTER THREE
The History Of Killing At A Distance: For Food Gathering & Warfare
The Evolution Of The Club-Staff/Spear-Lever/Lance: Bow & Arrow
Enter The Chinese Dragon
The Buddha & The Apparently Original Bogeyman
The Chinese Lion Dog:
Animal Employment Of High Technology: The Iron Guardian
Chinese Silken Armor & Sioux Ghost Shirts

CHAPTER FOUR
The Errors Of Voltaire, Gibbon And Clausewitz:
Regarding European Philosophy, History and Warfare
The Champion Masters Of War:
55 Of The Approximately 90 Horsepeople Tribes
A Reign Of Horsemen
Genghis Khan As Illiterate Engineer
The Real Amazon Women Warriors
Hornets & Honeybees
The Parting Parthian Shot

CHAPTER FIVE
The Difference Between Killing And Murder
The World's Most Powerful Women
The Mighty Darius & The Scythian Rabbit
Warfare And Slavery
Horse People And Hemp
Soldiers Are Not As Other Men
Western Europe's Renaissance & Why It Occurred

CHAPTER SIX
A Mongol Definition
The Difference Between Huns & Germans
Vikings & The Battle Of Hastings
The Difference Between Politics & Culture,
Agriculture & Pastoralism,
Is The Difference Between Civilization & Nomads
The Fall Of Kiev, Kracow And Liegnitz; The Sack Of Moravia
H. G. Wells And Horsepeople
The Great Wall Of China And Why It Was Built
The Era Of Genghis Khan's Yassa : Unification Of Horsewarriors

CHAPTER SEVEN
The Mongol Invasion Of Europe
The Siege Of Baghdad
An Abbreviated Chinese Mongol History
There Can Only Be One Kha Khan - The Mongol Civil Wars
The King Eclipse Of The Yuan Mongol Dynasty
The Taj Mahal And Why It Was Built
The Forbidden History Of Europe And The United States
Marco Polo - European Liaison To Kublai Khan:
Western Europe Pays Tribute By Sacrificing Eastern Europe

CHAPTER EIGHT
The European Flight To The New World
ReDiscovering The United States
Edward Gibbon's Decline & Folly Of The Romantic Umpire
The Reverse Domino Theory
('No Cover-Ups In This Administration')
The Yellow Peril
The Original Domino Theory
THE FULL CIRCLE OF CONSEQUENTIAL WARFARE
Circle The Dragons

CHAPTER NINE
The Forbidden History Of Europe & The United States.
The Declination And Folly Of Western Civilization
War Is Fun:
The Perils Of +PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE VIA ORWELL AND HUXLEY:
Civilization And +Psy-War: War Is A Joke
Western Civilization Salutes The East
THE CONQUEST OF THE UNITED STATES:
Entertainingly Amusing Violence In Two Dimensions:
Tragic Violence - That We Must Stop! In Three Dimensions
THE INVISIBLE (What?) War
Network Television Crazymaking PANIC AT THE INSANITY FACTORY
1984's Orwellia Takes Away Books.
Huxley's BRAVE NEW WORLD extinctifies Reading Interest.

CHAPTER TEN
The Seville Statement
WHERE TO START STOPPING THE INFRASTRUCTURAL VIOLENCE
The Rape Mentality
The Seville Statement II
Bibliography & AFTERWARD
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CHAPTER NINE

The Forbidden History Of Europe & The United States.
The Declination & Folly Of Western Civilization

Note: where Edward Gibbon fails most seriously in his work is the same specialization Clausewitz and Voltaire exhibit weakness in, namely the East. Whereas, Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794) is understandably revered throughout academia on an international level for the past two hundred years, for his exhaustively accurate generalized history of Europe, esp. the DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. What becomes the most flawed portion of Gibbon's book is when he begins to make proclamations about the East - what its capacity to make war on Europe 'could' - and 'could not' - be.

As famous as Gibbon is for his European history in DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, so too, equally famous is Karl Von Clausewitz (1780 - 1831; served as General Chief Of Staff for Prussia, against Napoleon I, at Waterloo); for his military history of Europe - ON WAR: a generalized theory of warfare, the main theme of which is, 'Warfare is an extension of politics'. In Europe that's generally true, but, as John Keegan again points out, in Asia the Clausewitzean dictate ('War is an extension of politics'), ain't necessarily so.

A likewise famous authority in philosophy, M. A. Voltaire (1694 -1778, prolific writer of revolutionary philosophical and historical views; twice imprisoned in the Bastille; which was the focal point of the French Revolution <1789 - A historical benchmark of popular - ‘people’s’ - revolutions against tyrannical government> twenty years after his death), is pointed out by John Keegan (A HISTORY OF WARFARE) as an active condescender of what he (Voltaire) rudely condemns as the unimportantly useless history of barbarians and their conquests (esp. of each other) in and around obscure oriental rivers that are irksomely difficult for round-eyed academics to pronounce, spell or remember. Keegan calls Voltaire to account for all that historically revolutionary activity unfolded out of the Xartes and especially the Oxus River, with regard to Central Asian Supremacy in the art and evolutionary history of world EuroAsian horse-warfare.

May it suffice it to say in short form, that H. G. Wells corrects Gibbon. John Keegan corrects Clausewitz & Voltaire, while the record holds all that out end-on-end as it very apparently has not been so arranged and held out before. The record itself reinstating H. G. WELL's neglected, 'out-dated' historical masterpiece: THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY; where Wells finds Edward Gibbon's' DECLINE AND FALL making enormous errors about the East, the record also correcting Raymond Postgate (for omitting Wells' work on nomadic horsepeoples in Postgate's strangely submitted 'revision and update' of Well's 'out-dated', generally unknown OUTLINE OF HISTORY book: after Well's death in 1947..).

Note: Gibbon's rare candor in openly writing out his (unpopular, generally uncontroversied) fears. The record is very grateful to - and surprised at - Gibbon for his revealing and courageously expressed perspective. Although Gibbon is quite wrong, in his worried underestimation of the barbarian capacity to make war on Europe, Gibbon does nevertheless, unlike his European peers (Clausewitz and Voltaire), openly express his candid apprehensions; for all the posterity he knows oversees his work, to read and learn from. (What Edward Gibbon is doing, in a place like this...)

The record finds Voltaire making another statement to parallel the one Keegan shows us (on p. ~ of this book), this time, Voltaire proclaims with adventurous, perhaps even grim determination:
“I want to know what were the steps
by which men passed from Barbarism to Civilization".
- Voltaire, verbatim, the Introductory Page
of Will Durant's OUR ORIENTAL HERITAGE,
Copyright 1954, Simon & Schuster

This is the same M.A. Voltaire who is already on record as having arrogantly dismissed barbarian horse-warfare history along the Oxus and Xartes Rivers - as being of no interest or importance to educators. or use to the public, in Western Civilization.

(Meanwhile: no one can possibly understand the history of warfare without acknowledging the role of horse-people's warfare: the evolution of the art of horse-archer - cavalry - warfare, at and around the Xartes and Oxus rivers...)

Comparing that with the statement logged in above by Will Durant, ostensibly the stormy Voltaire wasn't all that familiar with his own notes and publications. He asks a question here, lately, in the above; the solution to which he earlier dismissed any use for - representatively unrecognized by educators or the public. Fairly in those words, then.

There you have it. The impositional restrictions on the potential import of the evolution of Eastern Warfare, with regard to the European public's 'use' for it.

Here again we have a very much and understandably respected Westerner assuming falsely (with the acknowledged qualification that offensive warfare as a way of life eventually deprives itself of people and objects to exploit and steal) that Civilization is superior to Barbarism, rather than, in the case of the horse-warrior cultural nation and it's own self-perception, ambivalently the other way around... Co-dependently inter-twined. It is a tragic fact that civilization both suffered and profited mightily, from its endemic oppression by barbarians...

(The tragic fact being that most of written history consists of civilization finding its main incentive for progress, in its requirement to defend itself from barbarians. This trend continues into the modern era. It must be transcended, before modern technological warfare extinctifies both civilized and barbarian people - Real Warmakers and True Warmakers.)

Frank Trippett has already told us that if you want to study barbarism and civilization you must study the horse (Of course); whereas Voltaire refuses to put any livestock in the Importance of what amounts to the evolution of warfare: in man's warfare making relationship with horses... Voltaire wants and exclusively anticipates transition from barbarism to civilisation without horse (lightning) warfare and/or its evolution...

“I want to know what were the steps
by which men passed from barbarism to civilization".
- Voltaire

The record again holds out Frank Trippett's axiomatic observational answer to Voltaire's implied unanswerable aspiration:

'Wherever man has left his footprint in the long ascent from barbarism to civilization we will find the hoof print of the horse beside It.' - Trippet, THE FIRST HORSEMEN.

That is to say, 'Civilization and Barbarism' are no more separated' than 3-D 'Space And Time' (equals 4-D 'space-time'),
Biological Humankind has a right and left, bilaterally symmetrical cerebral hemisphere. Socio-ideological humankind is comparably bound to the barbaric and civilized experiential hemispheres of cultural and political experiential heritage; neither element is or can be 'more important' than the other; for the past seven thousand five hundred years or so; especially the past five thousand continental Euro-Asian years.

Voltaire simultaneously says he 'wants to know the steps by which men passed from barbarism to civilization', having already dismissed out-of-hand much of the unrecognized solution (The Endemic Nomad; The Evolution Of Warfare - it's over-all, generalized and massive influence on Civilization), as being 'useless'.

A self-imposed; highly contagious double bind on Voltaire's part. Like any 'ism' - like male-sexism: consciously deciding with your left brain, not to think, feel, live-with, acknowledge or recognize your right brain; very much as amok-male-dominated society has occluded it's own right female hemisphere (against which there is an unwritten but very strictly excersised social suppression; energetically practiced and complied-with while simultaneously denied. Refer THE FASTEST GROWING VIOLENT CRIME IN THE U.S. - the physical abuse of women by men, including rape; the commonplace ignorance and/or denial of this fact; 'Grid-lock' and 'Double-Think': two parallel lines of thought in mutual conflict with each other; to unresolving infinity).

THE TERRIBLE RESOLUTION
As much as these two considered antipodal East-West human organisations oppose each other, so too do they also, quite terribly complement and vitalize each other. This context of mutuality is dangerously transposed in malapplications to the realm of crime and punishment, Justice; 'good and bad', 'right and wrong’.

Civil victims of nomad invasions suffered in massive quantities for extensive times in history, not 'because they deserved it', but, because their leadership was corrupt and disorganized enough not to be able to defend its people with its own military.

The Roman military as a matter of early tradition had learned to treaty and parley with barbarians, absorbing them as allies with tribute payments. This evolved into what became 'the barbarization' of the Roman legions. The 'absorbed' barbarians would study and practice all they learned from the Romans and then the barbarian would return to the wild with his information on the people and culture he and his culture would make raids against; as usual.

On the other hand, the Roman employers would not study and learn from the barbarians. even when the allied opportunity afforded itself. In a word, the Roman (European) military simply refused to recognize or adopt superior war making tools and methods from the East. Similar mistakes were most recently repeated, in Vietnam.

The innocent majority suffered and perished right along with the responsible (culpable) minority; equally applicable to today's international world of 'politics and government'. European citizens were deprived of this education by their appointed educators... They still are so-deprived and on the same subject; for the same corrupt, arrogantly irresponsible reasons. A Euro-American without historical connection to the East is an uneducated EuroAmerican, deliberately deprived of historical insight by his or her educational community and socio-political leaderships.

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Civilized politics creates laws, governing the behavior of people: Carl Sagan's 3-Dimensionally exploding (4th dimension excluding) ‘Big Bang Beginning’ COSMOS, for example, Men falsely dictating reality. Barbarism on the other hand, begets people born into and acting out, living culture. The barbarian hierarchy is established exclusively by the finest, most formidable organization of military power; with a minimum of ambiguity or intrigue around that cardinal, ideological objective (Refer THE ROYAL HORDES: Nomad Peoples of the Steppes). This is a terrible, but equally pure, unambiguous resolve.

When civilized people today, allude to - or ape - these wild values, then, civilized people are practicing fascism; in the name of ‘being natural’. Humanity has not evolved through the success it's earned through serious competition with fellow human beings, but rather, by generally cooperating with each other, competing together- against the harsh environment, and animals of other species.

'The power of cooperation is greater than the power of competition'. - An old Chinese proverb (along with 'Women hold up more than half the world'). Calling unnecessary human competition 'the survival of the fittest (as