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  Fatalism of Global Conflict & The culture of ‘Apocalypse’ Modern Conflict 1915-1939 Introduction: This post will be slightly more abstract this week, dealing with the collective culture of socio-political violence in warfare & combat studies of the 20th century, especially during the Great War & throughout the 'Inter War' era in Europe. I've always found the culture of the Great War generation and the preceding generation so compelling because of  the sheer volume of mass movement conflicts and total war ideologies within.  The diverse backgrounds, ethnicity, and national identities of the millions upon millions of men and women who fought and endured the many struggles of arms and ideologies throughout 1900-1945 and beyond, intrigue my greater historical ideals and conceptions of warfare, diplomacy, politics, culture, and society to this day. The fatalism harbored by the harsh realities of the Great War and its ...

Following their defeat in Ethiopia expansionist & imperialist sentiment was very quiet while Italy recovered in the wake of unrest that rocked most of the free world in the late 1890's and 1900's. Italy would play a major role nevertheless in the inter-state conflicts that preceded the Great War in North Africa, the Mediterranean, and the Balkans, leading inevitably into buildup of nationalist sentiments that stoked the fires of a great conflict in 1914-1915. Captain Piazza’s Blériot XI during the campaign in Libya 1911 The Italian desire for expansion in North Africa, a more natural region geographically speaking to conquer, or acquire diplomatically than Ethiopia would have been, led the Italians to seek war with Turkey ( and the Ottoman Empire) over control of Libya, known then by the regional states of Tripolitania, Fezzan, & Cyrenaica. The Italians used gunboat diplomacy  successfully  where the German Empire had failed in the Moroccan crisis w...