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2019-03-21 at 5:10 PM UTC
Originally posted by Methuselah Honestly I think I’ve about reached my limit for writings on military strategy after this one. I’m really mostly only reading Gorin No Sho for the philosophical aspect of it. It’s kinda hard to apply shit like whether your enemy is using a lance or a naginata, to modern day RL
The majority of these books are used for philisophical purposes. Unless of course you have an army as well as a wife you're not telling us about. -
2019-03-21 at 5:13 PM UTC
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2019-03-21 at 5:15 PM UTC
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2019-03-21 at 5:18 PM UTC
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2019-03-21 at 5:20 PM UTC
Originally posted by aldra Actually, Globalistan by Pepe Escobar is very good
I like the title. lol Ima get this one.
OT: The one I'm reading now. Actually, it's a re-read. "Deception - The Invisible War Between the KGB and the CIA" by Edward Jay Epstein. It's really good and lots of interesting information. Especially what James Angleton has to say. I knew little about the man, except for the "official version". In fact, I would like to know more about him and find a good book. -
2019-03-21 at 5:30 PM UTC
Originally posted by Octavian The majority of these books are used for philisophical purposes. Unless of course you have an army as well as a wife you're not telling us about.
Art of War and Gorin No Sho are both recommended readings for U.S. Marine Corps personnel, probably on a lot of other military’s lists too.
A major theme in both works is that the same general rules apply whether you are fighting one opponent or twenty or twenty thousand. So it’s still fairly relevant stuff even for people who don’t own an army
You would know that if you had read them, instead of just seeing my name on a post and then deliberately replying in contrarian manner without knowing fuckall about the subject material just because you’re mad at me -
2019-03-21 at 5:32 PM UTC
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2019-03-21 at 5:33 PM UTCFar-seer
Robert J Sawyer
Far-Seer is a novel written by Canadian science fiction author, Robert J. Sawyer.[1] It is the first book of the Quintaglio Ascension Trilogy, and is followed by two sequels: Fossil Hunter and Foreigner. The book depicts an Earth-like world on a moon which orbits a gas giant, inhabited by a species of highly evolved, sentient Tyrannosaurs called Quintaglios, among various other creatures from the late cretaceous period, imported to this moon by aliens 65 million years prior to the story. Originally published in 1992 by Ace Science Fiction, it won the Homer award for "Best Novel" during its initial release date. It was reissued in 2004 by Tor Books.
Recommended to me and now to you.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2019-03-21 at 5:35 PM UTC
Originally posted by mmQ I recommended a book per the OP. What's your point ?
no, that reply was to this post:
Originally posted by mmQ ..people like him.
It ain't his fuckin fault.
which is not a book recommendation but you defending bukowski and people who like him in response to me saying he's shit. you can't just make shit up and respond to that instead because you're wrong or stuck. i'll forgive you this one time though since it seems to be something most human beings have trouble understanding. -
2019-03-21 at 6:21 PM UTC
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2019-03-21 at 6:21 PM UTCThe World's Major Languages, edited by Bernard Comrie. It's a thicker tome, but very thorough.
Not strictly academic in focus, but Tolkien is fabulous and reading the musings of an Oxford-trained linguist is educational in its own way.
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2019-03-21 at 6:46 PM UTC
Originally posted by Zanick The World's Major Languages, edited by Bernard Comrie. It's a thicker tome, but very thorough.
Not strictly academic in focus, but Tolkien is fabulous and reading the musings of an Oxford-trained linguist is educational in its own way.
In case you haven't seen it. Watch this docu. -
2019-03-21 at 7:32 PM UTC
Originally posted by Red_Woman I like the title. lol Ima get this one.
He adds -stan to the end of everything in that book, it gets old fast. I actually considered using regex to remove all the -stans when I read it.
Pepe's one of the best geopolitical analysts around at the moment; that book largely deals with 'low intensity warfare' and energy dominance, but he's mostly been writing about the BRI and economic conflicts between China, the US and EU these last few years. -
2019-03-21 at 7:38 PM UTC
Originally posted by inert_observer no, that reply was to this post:
which is not a book recommendation but you defending bukowski and people who like him in response to me saying he's shit. you can't just make shit up and respond to that instead because you're wrong or stuck. i'll forgive you this one time though since it seems to be something most human beings have trouble understanding.
Fair enough. This is of course assuming you weren't being rhetorical with your question in which case our exchanges are moot and circlejerkish.
My point wouldn't need clarification either. Its as straightforward as it gets. -
2019-03-25 at 1:21 AM UTC
Originally posted by GGG This sounds right up my alley. Did you read it in Russian, English, or both? I'd like to read it in English but I'm going to learn Russian anyway so I may as well pick up a copy in Russian.
I read it in Russian, but I suggest you read it in English.
But now that I think about it, crime and punishment by Dostoevsky is probably better. It is more widely known. -
2019-03-25 at 1:32 AM UTCCulture of Critique
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2019-03-25 at 1:54 AM UTCSure, a 250ish page book;
The Transall Saga.
I read it over one night. Great easy read. -
2019-04-03 at 10:25 PM UTC
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2019-04-04 at 12:36 AM UTC
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2019-04-04 at 12:39 AM UTCnigger
