- ManMythLegend
- Aug 18, 2003
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I don't believe in anything, I'm just here for the violence.
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I actually like the tales of Dunk and Egg way more then I like ASoIaF proper. I think the focus on specific characters and events helps GRRMs style immensely.
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- ManMythLegend
- Aug 18, 2003
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I don't believe in anything, I'm just here for the violence.
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I thought it was godholio's dream career, no idea he was able to land a job teaching history.
anyway if you're willing to visit creepy public libraries & do library inter-loan stuff you can find a ton of mil-history reading material.
Back when I lived in CT, I was able to read the 1909 reprints of gibbons "rise & fall of the roman empire" from the shelton ct public library for free.
and if you're willing to dive into the autism/aspergers pool that is military wargaming, alot of the avalon hill games & most of the non-self published studies on wargaming have references to seminal mil-history works. The US Navy sponsors a shitload of military history studies & wargaming concepts.
....it's how I learned about InfoChess.
I still can't decide if InfoChess is the stupidest or smartest thing I've ever heard of regarding modelling war scenarios.
I took a class on Information Operations/Information Warfare and how it has evolved military operations from John Arquilla. It was one the best courses I've ever taken, and we played a lot of InfoChess in the final portion of the class.
While I wouldn't say that it's great at modeling actual war, it is absolutely fantastic at modeling how valuable information is to making operational decisions, and causes players to make some very interesting cost/benefit decisions based on incomplete data.
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