Monday, January 31, 2011

And now for a brief musical interlude

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I just lost four hours of work --at least-- to a careless cut and paste. And I feel like... Yeah. That. Also, mad. I am very frustrated ...
Sunday, January 23, 2011

Fall of France, 9: Manpower, Part 3

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Needless to say, I spent so much time talking about the manpower breakdowns in the British army because I think that they're centrally i...
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Flatness and Walls: The Fall of Rome, III

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Cities have walls. Romance says that they are for defence. A careful study , or lived experience, suggests that they have other purposes as ...
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Thursday, January 13, 2011

Was There An Economic Boom in the Third/Fourth Century? The Fall of Rome, II

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In 1976, American "public intellectual and strategic analyst" Edward Luttwak published the very well-received Grand Strategy of th...
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Sunday, January 9, 2011

Horses Eat People: A Fall of Rome, I

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So I have suggested that I have a theory about the fall of Rome. And that I am not entirely comfortable sharing it. There are, after all, a ...
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Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Fall of France, 9: Manpower, Part 2

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Last time I looked at the British army at rest. Deeply, deeply at rest, except for Iraq, with the pension line for WWI veterans still a huge...
Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Fall of France, 9: Manpower, Part 1

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This is a posting about demographics, so I could be taking this opportunity to talk about the British Army and the late  Roman Empire while ...