Boer War marked the beginning of an enlightened and high-twentieth century - century contradictory and ambiguous, which eventually turned into a nearly continuous series of global wars and numerous armed conflicts.Along with the conquest of outer space and the great discoveries in medicine (the invention of penicillin alone is worth something!), This century "gave" mankind atomic bomb, chemical and bacteriological weapons.
Boer War, became the first in the twentieth century, "enrich" the world a new valuable experience, which then successfully used for most of the centenary of the historic period.In particular, for the first time under the hot South African sun on both sides of the conflict massively used smokeless powder, rapid-fire guns, magazine rifles and heavy machine guns.
These innovations have led to a complete transformation of infantry tactics.There are new concepts - trenches and ditches.And these innovations led infantry units to attack the sparse chains, which replaced the usual order.Instead of bright uniforms were khaki, it has become an essential attribute of the twentieth century.
But not only this famous Boer War.She was first introduced to the world of commando and sniper war that changed the guise of the last century harder rapid-guns and heavy machine guns.A scorched earth policy and concentration camps was not invented by Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin.These concepts were revealed to the world in all its abhorrent inhuman quite democratic and liberal under British artillery fire and shrill whistle of bullets with automatic weapons just during the Boer War.
This is the later of these monstrous inventions found a lot of followers that is so natural to human nature.The twentieth century has largely passed under the sign of the battle for resources.This is the main reason veiled and all modern wars.We need to somehow provide luxury living the "golden billion" of humanity in conditions of scarcity of resources and energy crisis.This is the main driving force of adepts ideologies of social Darwinism, in whatever clothes they no ryadilis.
In general, the Boer War, which took place far from the centers of world civilization and therefore go unnoticed by many, has become a key and, without exaggeration, a turning point of history, forever changing the appearance of the human race and the general conception of geopolitics.
This war was not only the first attempt of bringing "freedom and democracy" in the country is extremely rich in natural resources and minerals.Boer War and became perhaps the first armed conflict in which fighting proceeded, in addition to the battlefields, even in the information space.By the early twentieth century, it has been used throughout the telegraph, photography and film, and printed materials (newspapers, magazines) has become a familiar part of European life.It was a kind of warning to the world, which, however, no one heeded.
probably the British Cabinet decided that the English colonies in America is not able to provide resources submitted to Her Majesty for centuries to come.And turned his predatory eyes on the former Dutch territory in South Africa.The confrontation between the British and the Boers began when the Crown laid eyes on the Dutch Cape Colony.
to annex these territories, and soon after buying them, the British started creating intolerable conditions of existence of the Boers.It was forbidden to training and record keeping in Dutch and English was officially declared the state.Slavery was abolished, is the basis of the Boer economy.All of this eventually turned into armed confrontation between two newly founded the Boer republics - Transvaal and Orange republics.
The world community has expressed sympathy for the Boers in this battle, "David and Goliath".But it ended predictably.It is only in ancient legends David can prevail in such a confrontation.And in real life, the Boers initially had no chance against the Empire ...
