Tuesday 18 September 2018

Remember: 1973 Was not too good a year either!

I was bemoaning the state of the world: Brexit, Trump, Putin, UK Political Parties (May and Corbyn as well as north of the border) and thinking how messed up everything was. Then a good friend reminded me of how bad it was all in the past and how things at least got better! (Eventually for the people who didn't get killed in the meantime). He wrote in an email:  

1973 wasn't a particularly "good year" - 

August 15 – The U.S. bombing of Cambodia ends, officially halting 12 years of combat activity in Southeast Asia.

Middle East: 

USA
  • January 20 – President Richard Nixon is sworn in for his second term.
June 25 – Watergate scandal: Former White House counsel John Dean begins his testimony before the Senate Watergate Committee.

today is easy peasy ...

Answer: Keep Calm and Wargame It! More details followed ...

Money


Inflation has risen to 8.4%

IRA 

March – Two IRA bombs exploded in London, killing one person and injuring 250 others. Ten people were arrested hours later at Heathrow Airport on suspicion of being involved in the bombings.
War
And so it goes ...



8 comments:

Prufrock said...

Yes, easy to get hung up on the current situation and lose our sense of perspective!

Cheers,
Aaron

Nigel Drury said...

You might find the graphs on this page of interest
https://ourworldindata.org/war-and-peace

Nigel Drury said...

And this is worth a read -
https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty#extreme-poverty-in-a-historical-perspective

Trebian said...

1973 gave us Aladdin Sane, Band on the Run, Elton John's best ever album, Springsteen's second and the Greatest Album Ever Made - Dark Side of the Moon.

ITV started to show "The World at War" and "The Wombles" had started on the Beeb and we got Dr Who 10th anniversary celebrations (with instructions on how to make your own Dalek in the Radio Times).

The previous year had brought us the core of the Airfix Waterloo range.

As someone just entering their teenage years the early 70s were fab.

Mark, Man of TIN said...

Military Modelling many years ago had a series of articles on wargaming the Cod War.

Geordie an Exiled FoG said...

Nigel
Many thanks for those visualisations

Geordie an Exiled FoG said...

Thank god for the wargaming products of "living in interesting times" and the classic music that Dad's can dance to

Geordie an Exiled FoG said...

ManOfTin:
Check out "Don't throw that bloody spear at me" *David Manly) for a recent post of Cod War [Scallop War] a few weeks ago in The Channel