It is the same with management. “Kings and emperors need what Hannah Arendt terms power – the ability to coordinate voluntary collective action – because they cannot coerce everyone all at once. Indeed, modern states have far, far more coercive… Read More »Miscellanea: Thoughts on CKIII: Royal Court
Various ways to look at power. “vassals are also not vassals to a title but to a person; a duke with two ducal titles who is deprived of one loses no vassals because they do not belong to the title,… Read More »Collections: Teaching Paradox, Crusader Kings III, Part I: Making It Personal
Diseases helped colonized Americas but saved Africa in a way. “Rates of disease mortality among European soldiers stationed at the relatively less malarial port-and-fort posts they maintained (which we’ve discussed in this series) in the period period to the Scramble… Read More »Collections: Teaching Paradox, Victoria II Part III: World’s Fair
Lets hope so. The Economist (EU) Sat, Apr 25, 2026 Can the Bundeswehr fight?https://pressreader.com/article/281612426992083
Is it solving any big problems?
Slave trade was complicated and aimple at the same time. “Taking the Dahomey region as an example (drawing from Lee, Waging War, 265-72), you can see the clear impact of that strategic dilemma as the slave trade explodes, from perhaps… Read More »Collections: Teaching Paradox, Europa Universalis IV, Part III: Europa Provincalis
Trade, slavery and making it. “On the one hand, there is a desire not to white-wash history and simply remove real things that really happened. On the other hand, no one wants their historical game to end up as a… Read More »Collections: Teaching Paradox, Europa Universalis IV, Part III: Europa Provincalis
When leaders go crazy.
She was not a hero.
Forces at play also in the real world. “So Burgundy is essentially in a race where it starts four feet behind and must sprint to catch up. Burgundy has to assemble power faster than France in order to remain secure.… Read More »Collections: Teaching Paradox, Europa Universalis IV, Part II: Red Queens