How China checkmated Western economies
And what we can do about it.
Metod Rybar
Collections: The Universal Warrior, Part III: The Cult of the Badass
Violence is not the only force in societies. “Trying to reduce all forms of authority in a society to violence or the threat of violence is an ‘boy’s sociology,’ unfit for serious adults.” https://acoup.blog/2021/02/19/collections-the-universal-warrior-part-iii-the-cult-of-the-badass/
Collections: The Universal Warrior, Part IIb: A Soldier’s Lot
Deep bonds are only strange to modern people. “One only needs to look, for instance, at the failure of these intense bonds to hold primacy over the bonds of family, class or tribe when efforts are made to train ‘western’-style… Read More »Collections: The Universal Warrior, Part IIb: A Soldier’s Lot
Collections: The Universal Warrior, Part IIa: The Many Faces of Battle
Guerrilla war is the default. “We may call this the first system of war. It is the oldest, but as noted above, never entirely goes away. We tend to call this style ‘asymmetric’ or ‘unconventional’ war, but it is the… Read More »Collections: The Universal Warrior, Part IIa: The Many Faces of Battle
Collections: The Universal Warrior, Part I: Soldiers, Warriors, and…
There is a difference between a warrior and a soldier. “The shift to a professional military has always been understood to have involved risks – the classic(al) example of those risks being the Roman one: the creation of a semi-professional… Read More »Collections: The Universal Warrior, Part I: Soldiers, Warriors, and…
Collections: Luigi Cadorna Was The Worst
Goals are important. “But fortunately, there is also no good strategic reason to have a battle here either! The initial Italian goal was the village of Gorizia, a position of functionally no strategic value, but which had been fortified (because… Read More »Collections: Luigi Cadorna Was The Worst
Collections: No Man’s Land, Part II: Breaking the Stalemate
WWI was just a huge clusterfuck. “the problem these generals faced was fundamentally beyond their ability or anyone’s ability to solve. We didn’t get into it here, but every conceivable secondary theater of war was also tried, along with naval… Read More »Collections: No Man’s Land, Part II: Breaking the Stalemate
Collections: No Man’s Land, Part I: The Trench Stalemate
Do not assume you are smarter than people in the past were. “Many World War I generals were incompetent and some were uncaring, but there were also a lot of quite capable, focused and dedicated commanders and they couldn’t break… Read More »Collections: No Man’s Land, Part I: The Trench Stalemate
How France Is Failing
Slovakia is on the same trajectory but from a worse baseline.
100,000,000 CROWPOWER and no horses on the moon
Measuring stuff is hard. “Microwave ovens run at roughly one horsepower. This sounds like nonsense unless you’re familiar with math, energy, work, dimensional analysis, electromagnetism, radiation, dielectric heating, magnetron design, and thermodynamics.Well, it sounds like nonsense until you microwave your… Read More »100,000,000 CROWPOWER and no horses on the moon