While you’re thinking about sci-fi, I’d be interested in your thoughts on interstellar cold wars and whether or not MAD would work: https://www.gwern.net/Colder-Wars
This week on the blog, a fireside chat about planetary invasions which is actually about the efficacy of firepower (esp. airpower) vs dug in infantry. Also, I effort to get some mileage out of my academic regalia because it cost a fortune.https://acoup.blog/2020/07/17/fireside-friday-july-17th-2020/ …
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Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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also quite struck by stardock's assertion that space naval battles should involve more routs, ships fleeing in terror, etc. again, we can look to the pacific theater: how many times did a surface fleet on either side "break and run" from battle? zero, as far as i know.
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it makes sense for an individual soldier to run from an infantry battle, knowing he might be able be able to escape both death and shame. ship captains and crews are an almost completely different social environment, and there's a reason they never run.
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All these people talking of "dropping rocks" forget that moving between stars is so much harder than moving out of a gravity well. Any interstellar civilization would likely be advanced enough that shooting up should not be significantly harder than shooting down.
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You mentioned the Japanese surrender in WW2 being motivated by US Nuclear bombing. I had always heard the only motivating factor was the Soviets entering the war against Japan. What is the historical consensus on this?
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Fiercely debated. I don't think it is accurate to say there is a consensus, especially taking international scholarship into account. I'd say Soviet entry as the *only* motivation seems pretty clearly to be a minority view, advocated mostly as a devil's advocate challenge.
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