Seen this at many organizations. “Like many modern efforts to graft a professional army onto a society with both insufficient training time and a lack of care for the underlying social structures, Saruman had created the appearance of a professional… Read More »Collections: The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Part IV: Men of Rohan
Also why you need a lot of managers at companies. ” a professional army often needs to be very intensively organized and carefully drilled to be effective. Because they are fundamentally deracinated (meaning ‘uprooted’ in the sense of ‘pulled out… Read More »Collections: The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Part III: The Host of Saruman
This is why being left handed was not an option in the past. “Théoden then advances his cavalry at a trot to the top of that ridge we see. Each rider ought to have a spear in their right hand… Read More »Collections: The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Part II: Total Warg
This is so true. “Given his personality, he strikes me as exactly the sort of very intelligent person whose assumes that their mastery of one field (effectively science-and-engineering, along with magic-and-persuasion, in this case) makes them equally able to perform… Read More »Collections: The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Part I: Bargaining for Goods at Helm’s Gate
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
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
Power rules them all. “What is at work here is not the Congresses themselves and certainly not law (indeed, the individual Congresses could be startlingly inconsistent), but rather balance of power politics. The pressures of anarchy aren’t restrained, but instead… Read More »Collections: Teaching Paradox, Victoria II, Part II: The Ruin of War
Lets hope so. The Economist (EU) Sat, Apr 25, 2026 Can the Bundeswehr fight?https://pressreader.com/article/281612426992083
Shooting the world in the leg.
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