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this is a *fascinating* read, both for meditations on history and war and for meditations on game design

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· Aug 23, 2021

I hadn't thought of the thesis at acoup.blog/2021/08/20/col in quite such explicit terms before, though feels obvious in retrospect:

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

Aug 24, 2021

this whole blog is a treasure wow. there's a set of 3 posts about the historicity of game of thrones and you better believe i am going to read it

acoup.blog

New Acquisitions: How It Wasn’t: Game of Thrones and the Middle Ages, Part I

This series is now available in an audio format; the entire playlist can be listened to here. The following post is the first part of a three part series where we look at the question “how me…

QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

starting to understand what it feels like to be fascinated by military history. am i finally Becoming A Man now

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

Aug 25, 2021

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also this post on Oaths is so good, i did not onow i needed this

acoup.blog

Collections: Oaths! How do they Work?

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You must be swift as the coursing river~

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i think it just means you're getting old. as uncle atom said, "i don't know why it is, it's just at some point you get to an age where all of a sudden you're like 'you know... world war ii is kind of interesting 🤔.'"

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I’m not a military history person, but this showed up on my timeline and I had the same thought

thestrategybridge.org

Trigger-Happy, Autonomous, and Disobedient: Nordbat 2 and Mission Command in Bosnia

In late 1993, a reinforced Swedish-Danish-Norwegian mechanized battalion (Nordbat 2) deployed to Bosnia as part of an ongoing UN peacekeeping mission. The battalion was under Swedish command, and...