Mates, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly anticipated, the hiatus goes to proceed by way of October. I’m making good progress on my writing, however nonetheless must maintain focusing. I’m presently, I consider, on monitor for us to return to usually scheduled posts in November, however I don’t need to make any guarantees as I need to make certain that the ebook comes out as sturdy because it potential can.
Within the meantime, final month I gave you all a list of recommendations from different blogs, channels and so forth, so I although this month, I would spotlight a couple of of my favorites from the archives for these of you who haven’t plumbed the back-catalog.
In fact the all-time fan favorites on the weblog are the dual Lord of the Rings sequence: The Battle of Helm’s Deep and the Siege of Gondor. However in case you could have missed it, we’ve additionally regarded in much more element at a few of the core components of logistics, management and command that I might solely contact on briefly in these sequence, specifically:
- The sequence of Logistics and Foraging, Logistics, How Did They Do It in three elements: (I, II, III)
- A extra detailed dialogue of how fast armies move and why.
- A dialogue on fortifications and sieges all through the eras in 5 elements: (I, II, III, IV, V)
- And a dialogue on the restrictions of pre-industrial battlefield command in three-ish elements: (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc)
Considered one of my favourite sequence to have written right here was The Queen’s Latin or Who Have been the Romans, a sequence taking a look at id, range, bigotry and the roots of Roman success in 5 elements: (I, II, III, IV, V). This sequence has develop into, sadly, I feel, extra related within the three years since I wrote it, as skewed visions of Rome have been more and more mobilized, particularly on Twitter (including by the owner of Twitter) to defend exclusionary insurance policies – a baffling error, provided that Rome is, maybe, the obvious and clear case of ‘range is power’ within the pre-modern world.
Among the most attention-grabbing subjects, to me at the least, I’ve writetn on listed below are the How Did They Make It sequence, masking agriculture (I, II, III, IV, A), ironworking (I, II, III, IVa, IVb, A) and textile manufacture (I, II, III, IVa, IVb). It’s value remembering that previous to the economic revolution, agriculture and textile manufacture would have made up between them the overwhelming majority of financial exercise: if you wish to perceive historical or medieval economies, understanding cereal agriculture (grain, rice, and so on.) and textiles will get you to understanding in all probability shut to a few quarters of all financial exercise.
Lastly, let me pull collectively a few of the supply studying we’ve carried out:
I’ll additionally observe that these are all workouts in ‘shut studying’ and we did yet another train in shut studying right here, on the themes of Dune.
So when you haven’t, test these out – or recommend your individual favorites from the ACOUP back-catalog within the feedback and hopefully we’ll be again in November. Within the meantime, right here is a completely unbelievable mannequin of a Fletcher-class destroyer {that a} former pupil of mine made for me: