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Fireside Friday, September 4, 2026
Published: September 4, 2026 16:03
Hey folks! Fireside this week! Last week’s post was a monster (over 10,000 words compared to our more typically ~6,000) which left me with some non-blog catching up to do. Next week, we’ll be starting our next Teaching Paradox series, this time looking at…
Collections: Global Trade and United States Navy
Published: August 29, 2026 02:02
This week we’re doing another one of our series of military theory primers, this time focusing on a fairly simple contention: that the United States Navy is a load-bearing component of the global economy. I considered attempting to work in A.T. Mahan and…
Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part Vb: Pixel Armies for Pixel Societies
Published: August 21, 2026 23:11
This is the second half of the final part (I, IIa, IIb, III, IVa, IVb, Va, Vb) of our apparently five-part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are organized, with fictional worldbuilding and historical patterns in mind. Last…
Fireside Friday, August 14, 2026 (On Financing Pre-Modern Navies)
Published: August 14, 2026 15:29
Hey folks, fireside this week as I get ready for the start of a new semester! For this week, I wanted to talk briefly about the wrinkles that financing navies poses with regards to our worldbuilding primer on pre-modern armies. “what about navies?” has…
Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part Va: Putting It Together
Published: August 8, 2026 02:53
This is the first half of the final part (I, IIa, IIb, III, IVa, IVb, Va) of our apparently five-part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are organized, in particular exploring the principle that armies cannot help but…
Fireside Friday, July 31, 2026 (On The Odyssey)
Published: July 31, 2026 20:15
Hey folks, Fireside this week, as I am fresh back from a short family trip before the jaws of the Fall semester close upon me. I did get a chance to see Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey and I wrote a review of it for Foreign Policy (alas, paywalled, I…
Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part IVb: Cohesion
Published: July 24, 2026 22:50
This is the second half of the fourth part (I, IIa, IIb, III, IVa) of our honestly-who-knows-how-many part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are organized. Last week we took a look at how the leadership of these armies was…
Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part IVa: Leadership
Published: July 18, 2026 04:41
This is the fourth part (I, IIa, IIb, III) of our honestly-who-knows-how-many part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are organized. We’ve talked about how armies are recruited, equipped and paid for. In particular, as…
Friday Friday, July 10, 2026 (On the Chud Vision of Roman History)
Published: July 10, 2026 14:35
Hey folks, Fireside this week! I’ve been a bit behind because we had some family travel followed by an issue with a water leak in the basement which has pushed me out of my normal home office space (fortunately no books or computers were harmed and we’re…
Collections: On the Declaration of Independence
Published: July 4, 2026 04:02
Hello again all. It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States. This is going to be a bit more of an open musing than an argument as compared to previous years (2021,…
Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part III: Paying For It
Published: June 26, 2026 17:21
This is the third part (I, IIa, IIb, III) of our honestly-who-knows-how-many part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are recruited, raised, equipped and paid. In the last part, we looked at the various ways pre-modern…