If you just haven't had enough of my writing in the blog, Foreign Policy has published a piece I wrote for them, discussing the Fremen Mirage and its strategic implications:https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/05/02/hard-times-dont-make-strong-soldiers-warrior-myth/ …
The issue is that military performance is the metric by which the mirage makes value judgments, because the mirage emerges out of cultures (ancient and modern) which held military virtues as the highest and most important sort of virtues.
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So the question becomes, if they can't find, in what sense are they really 'hard men' at all? Because they have bad clothes, poor diets and low literacy? The ancients considered those regrettable flaws, balanced only by military performance.
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In the end, I don't think it is possible to assess the mirage outside of its claims to a military performance or military virtue advantage, because that is the central feature of it.
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Ok. In this context I completely agree with you. To get an organized effective military training/equipment "good" times are fundamental. Efficient guerrilla can be created by "hard men" but it's effectiveness in classic military achievements/context is debatable at best.
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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