You know you do war studies when...

You Know you do War Studies when....

You can tell the difference between salt, SALT and Salt

Genocide is a strategy rather than a crime against humanity

you can never look at a pink rucksack the same way again...

you can't go out on a Friday night without talking about at least one war.

you send your Christmas wish list to Barrie Paskins

conversations end when you say 'You know Hitler/Stalin/Napoleon/Idid Amin arn't all that bad..'
While, bizarrely, you will always say 'Cromwell? WHAT A DICK!'

when watching The Pacific you keep thinking to yourself "this would so have helped in the Experience of War exam last year..."

when you consider watching documentaries about WW2 a study break.

You can have a discussion on which is your favorite battle, war and even genocide listing them by different criterias such as most casualties, best technical improvement, worst political excuses, most pointless deaths, best strategy, and not find anything morally questionable about this.

in order to complete your dissertation you need to tour north Afghanistan...

you tell someone, they look blankly at you and then say 'and which war do you study?'

ou spend more time debating whether it was an automatic or semi-automatic weapon than yon discussing the moral issues of a massacre.

you can, and actually have, written a 2000 word essay on the 'psychological impact of the bayonet'

people ask you "So what you going to do with your degree when you're done? Start a war?"

You can't watch a war film without shaking your head at the historical inaccuracies or the poor tactics on tactics.

You are used to one of three reactions when telling someone you do War Studies.
1. "Wow! That's so interesting!"
2. "Uh... oh... um... ok. So, er... why did you choose that subject?"
3. They smile, nod, then back away very slowly.