Civil Defense Perspectives March 2014 Vol. 30 No. 3
“Forward, the Light Brigade!”
Was there a man dismay’d?
Not tho’ the soldier knew
Someone had blunder’d:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
“The Charge of the Light Brigade,” Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1854
Even small, seemingly insignificant places, like Sarajevo, can spark global conflicts. Crimea is not strategically insignificant. The [First] Crimean War fundamentally altered the balance of power in Europe, which had kept the peace for three decades after the Treaty of Vienna ended the Napoleonic Wars. And the outcome set the stage for World War I. Continue reading “Trigger for WWIII?”