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I believe GoegAvachelli was correct to fold the Macedonian front into that of the Balkan theatre, given a number of fronts existed in the Balkans. The North Africa campaign firmly took place in Africa (in what is now Libya, Morocco with an incursion into Egypt) and never crossed the Suez Canal and is therefore not part of the Middle East theatre. The Arab Revolt was in support of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign. -- Labattblueboy ( talk) 17:17, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
This campaignbox has one link for the West African Campaign (World War I) which includes the Kamerun campaign and Togoland campaign. They are two almost completely separate campaigns with almost no link other than that some of the British units that fought in Togoland also fought in Kamerun. Would it be appropriate to amend this campaignbox in order to include links to these two articles or would it be unnecessary?
Over the past couple of days there has been some activity that involved the expansion of the campaignbox and before we do so it would seem prudent to discuss. I don't see the inclusion of rebellions as relevant within the context of overarching campaigns but am happy to deviate from that view if others feel it's necessary. It think it would be prudent to have a seperate box for this material.- Labattblueboy ( talk)
User:Labattblueboy, what do you think about the "Contemporaneous wars" section? Koopinator ( talk) 14:14, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
@ Labattblueboy: Hey, i was reading The Central Asian Revolt of 1916: A collapsing empire in the age of war and revolution, and i came across this paragraph on page 159. Do you think this quote would warrant counting the revolt as one of the war's fronts?
An explanation that one of the rebels offers for the uprising is revealing: “We started the war with the Russians because they wanted to [forcibly] recruit us as soldiers and because we would be killed by Germans.” A telegram of the head of the Turkestan military district, Mikhailovskii, corroborates this perception: “The Kirgiz refer to the actual rebellion as the war.” The administration too saw the rebellion as an act of war. The telegram of the head of the Kazan military district, Sandetskii, for example, insists that
"there was no murder of Kirgiz [Kazakhs] in the Turgai and Irgiz districts. The forces … did not execute the Kirgiz, but engaged in battle with the organised hordes, which assumed military formation and set as their aim the resistance to the state power, the destruction of the cities of the province, communication lines, and the telegraph."
Perceptions, as I stated in the beginning of this chapter, are important. The perceptions of the war in Semirech’e suggest that we ought to view the rebellion as an integral part of World War I. The war in Semirech’e was a war on the domestic front brought about by the war fought on the foreign front. (emphasis mine)
Koopinator ( talk) 13:19, 15 October 2020 (UTC)
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I believe GoegAvachelli was correct to fold the Macedonian front into that of the Balkan theatre, given a number of fronts existed in the Balkans. The North Africa campaign firmly took place in Africa (in what is now Libya, Morocco with an incursion into Egypt) and never crossed the Suez Canal and is therefore not part of the Middle East theatre. The Arab Revolt was in support of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign. -- Labattblueboy ( talk) 17:17, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
This campaignbox has one link for the West African Campaign (World War I) which includes the Kamerun campaign and Togoland campaign. They are two almost completely separate campaigns with almost no link other than that some of the British units that fought in Togoland also fought in Kamerun. Would it be appropriate to amend this campaignbox in order to include links to these two articles or would it be unnecessary?
Over the past couple of days there has been some activity that involved the expansion of the campaignbox and before we do so it would seem prudent to discuss. I don't see the inclusion of rebellions as relevant within the context of overarching campaigns but am happy to deviate from that view if others feel it's necessary. It think it would be prudent to have a seperate box for this material.- Labattblueboy ( talk)
User:Labattblueboy, what do you think about the "Contemporaneous wars" section? Koopinator ( talk) 14:14, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
@ Labattblueboy: Hey, i was reading The Central Asian Revolt of 1916: A collapsing empire in the age of war and revolution, and i came across this paragraph on page 159. Do you think this quote would warrant counting the revolt as one of the war's fronts?
An explanation that one of the rebels offers for the uprising is revealing: “We started the war with the Russians because they wanted to [forcibly] recruit us as soldiers and because we would be killed by Germans.” A telegram of the head of the Turkestan military district, Mikhailovskii, corroborates this perception: “The Kirgiz refer to the actual rebellion as the war.” The administration too saw the rebellion as an act of war. The telegram of the head of the Kazan military district, Sandetskii, for example, insists that
"there was no murder of Kirgiz [Kazakhs] in the Turgai and Irgiz districts. The forces … did not execute the Kirgiz, but engaged in battle with the organised hordes, which assumed military formation and set as their aim the resistance to the state power, the destruction of the cities of the province, communication lines, and the telegraph."
Perceptions, as I stated in the beginning of this chapter, are important. The perceptions of the war in Semirech’e suggest that we ought to view the rebellion as an integral part of World War I. The war in Semirech’e was a war on the domestic front brought about by the war fought on the foreign front. (emphasis mine)
Koopinator ( talk) 13:19, 15 October 2020 (UTC)