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  "thread": {
    "id": 1277,
    "subject": "Inscriptions and wars",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-11-26T05:37:51+00:00",
    "last": "1998-11-26T05:37:51+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0021-0093@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Peter Nagle",
        "address": "petern at naa.gov.au"
      },
      "date": "1998-11-26T05:37:51+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Inscriptions and wars",
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      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "IAM*REDIT*ET*VIRGO*REDEUNT*SATURNIA*REGNA\n\nis probably better translated as\n\n'Virgo also now returns, they re-enter Saturnian realms',\n\nbut, especially with this type of latin, any translation could vary\nconsiderably depending on context.\n\nThe idea of massed attacks against machine guns isn't as simple as it\nsounds ... it was based on the concept of the 'front' as a strong but\nrelatively thin barrier, which needed to be broken in only one place and\nthen you could spread out behind it like water through a broken dyke.\nGiven this concept, and lots of artillery, you could feel justified in\ntrying this approach several times, thinking that it would only need to\nwork once and you would be home free. To some extent the successful\ngerman offensives of 1918 were based on this theory but failed because\nthe support services couldn't keep up. I know this is oversimplified but\nthere is some feeling initially, at the time, that these attacks might\nstop a war of attrition. Yea, I know in hindsight ...\n\nI think maybe the period of the Napoleonic Wars are a more useful way of\ntrying to get a feel of the battles on Urth during this period,  ...\nmassed infantry of different types, light and heavy cavalry and armor\nproviding protection from some sorts of missiles, etc. Not exact, I\nknow, but closer.\n\nPeter Nagle\nNational Archives of Australia"
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