Reactionary military leaders will be like "you believe in victory through superior industrial production? that pales on comparison to my strategy: having a warrior ethic" and then get crushed under superior industrial production

Tfw you build some of the most technologically impressive tanks of the era but can barely field them within your own borders, meanwhile the Americans are shipping light tanks by the thousands across the entire Atlantic Ocean and running circles around you

"how many opera houses do they have"

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Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism)

Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week. Percy, having found a use for some of my books. And of course, less I miss a chance to note…

tried to make a matryoshka meme of "who would win: blood for the blood god OR haha materiel printer go brr" but it turns out it's hard to find lineart of a tabletop inkjet turning a load of rolled steel into ships or something.

Many such examples.

I mean…the US Navy ran ice cream and brewery barges in the Pacific in WW 2!

I wouldn’t tell the Vietnamese that.

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And not just superior industrial production, but even in the preindustrial world, simply the superior ability to coordinate large armies drawn from diverse populations of not-warrior-elites. Roman soldiers were not a warrior elite - but they were numerous, effective and victorious.

"You tryna tell me that playing war video games with an infinite supply of *actual human* NPCs would not be insanely KEWL?" [focus on 'insanely'... ]