Talk:Rif War

message: The first of the two cited sources is pretty weak in credentials. It is the personal web site of a software developer; he starts out by saying, "haven't really got into this yet, but I've found some stuff and had some thoughts"; he gives no specific citations for any of the material, and his annotated bibliography is not exactly revealing of what material he got from where: his annotations are things like, "Fantastic photos" and "Amazing site for anyone who likes tanks." - Jmabel | Talk 17:56, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dubious sources 

message: The figures in the info box suggest that the Rif had more causalities than the whole of their armed forces. One of these figures must be wrong - unless the deaths include non-combatants. If this is so, it should be clarified. Dave Smith (talk) 03:33, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Figures correct?

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*OK. Looks like proposer has done his homework, so I'm not going to gainsay him. Sounds fine to me. Herostratus (talk) 03:51, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: "Americans in the Rif Rebellion. This paper examines the role of Americans in the Rif Rebellion as an observer and as operators. Captain Charles Willoughby of US Army Intelligence studied the rebellion in an official capacity and tried to analyze the conflict for lessons learned. The American mercenary aviators served in Morocco contrary to the wishes of the US State Department. In the summer of 1925, the French government brought in the American aviators because of a shortage of personnel in French military aviation and to hopefully improve Franco-American relations. While the American aviators performed well in Morocco, Americans at official and popular levels were opposed to American mercenaries in Morocco. A wide variety of forces from the improvement of the strategic situation in Morocco to bad American public reaction militated against the continued existence of the Escadrille Cherifienne. The French military learned little practical from this campaign and Franco-American relations were not severely harmed. One could argue that the variety of conflicting reactions of this campaign, illustrated a range of views on colonial warfare." french army historic revue. see Colonel Charles Sweeny's escadrille chérifienne (Sweeny aka Sweeney). Stealth Donut (talk) 17:06, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Americans in the Rif Rebellion

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message: The article is in desparate need of a background section. A casual reader will have no context in which to evaluate this article. I can cobble up such a section from existing wikipedia articles, but I have NO expertise ro even prior knowledge fo this subject. -Arch dude (talk) 02:27, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs a "Background" section 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Hello. I am an American photographer who lives in Spain. During the course of a 7 month long photographic essay on the oldest living Spanish people, I met Francisco Núñez Olivera, who is verified and documented as the world's fourth oldest living man, born on December 13th, 1904, currently age 111 and 7 months. 
At 18 years old, he joined the Spanish Army and was sent to fight in the 1920-1926 Rif War. He is lucid, and has told me stories about his war experiences, and what he learned about being a "real man" from his commanding officer. 
He is not only the sole survivor of this war, but the world's oldest living combat veteran as well. 
I believe he deserves mention here, as well as his own wikipedia page. I would be happy to contribute any information available to me. I have direct contact with his family, and can assist in obtaining any further information required.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.220.186.82 (talk) 23:03, 31 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Francisco Núñez Olivera - Oldest Living Combat Veteran in the World 

message: The infobox of this article is not the infobox of a Micky Mouse war. Military commanders mentioned in the infobox should be mentioned on the basis of their leading military command in the war, not because other reasons (such as happening to have a Wikipedia article). This should be substantiated in the body of the article pursuant to how reliable authoritative secondary sources about the conflict holistically deal with the conflict. I have thus reverted the recent unsubstantiated changes (I'm not personally married either to the current set of military commanders, btw, but it is a better starting point).--Asqueladd (talk) 21:02, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent infobox changes 

message: The "Riffs" provided convenient clients for the gun-running antagonists of Pease' YA 'Tod Moran' novel, /Wind in the Rigging/, 1935 (Doubleday). 2600:1700:2C90:A9E0:64A3:BEC:2BFB:49FA (talk) 02:59, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  In popular culture:  Howard Pease