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I've noticed that many of you, OSC in particular have some pretty good resources of info on military history. are there any internet sited you could recommend that might bring me up to speed?
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If I was you, I would just pick a famous or crucial battle: Cannae, Crecy, Battle of Chancellorsville, Midway, or an influential general like Hannibal, Alexander, Napoleon, Lee, Forrest, Patton, Rommell, etc. and just google.
You'll find plenty of sites to learn from.
Also, the gaming community probably has some good tactics sites and forums--and games. Interactivity is key to learning tactics.
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I believe that OSC's primary source is a great site called the "library" where they have these magical little pieces of hardware (they're like little hand-held databases) called "books," I believe. I know they sell them at places called "bookstores" as well. We live in one amazing world, don't we?
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Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" is a classic resource. I did a quick search on the web for it and found this site, among others, with the text of it.
quote:I believe that OSC's primary source is a great site called the "library" where they have these magical little pieces of hardware (they're like little hand-held databases) called "books," I believe. I know they sell them at places called "bookstores" as well. We live in one amazing world, don't we?
Instead of this rude pile of steaming sarcasm, pehaps you could have tried this Glynn:
quote:In addition to your internet search, I would also suggest reading books on the subject. Public libraries have historical sections with great resources for this sort of thing. There is also the added advantage of having all the information in these books validated for at the very least, basic fact checking. Most of the books you find will have loads of verifiable references, which your internet resources will almost certainly lack. I believe that OSC uses books as his primary research tool.
I know being a jerk to newbies is sort of your niche here Glynn, but that is not a niche we need filled.
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I rather liked Makers of Modern Strategy, which is a collection of essays on military strategists "from Machiavelli to Hitler" edited by Edward Mead Earle.
It has very interesting looks at classics like Napoleon and Clausewitz as well as more unusual choices for a military strategy book like Smith, Hamilton, Engels, and Marx.
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If you search the two best books in stratégie and Tactics illustrate by many historical example, there are The art of War (for strategy) and the 36 stratagems (for tactics).
It's stronger than Clauswitz, for me.
I recommand the five rings too, because it's more general than the Art of War and, maybe, more deep.
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quote:I believe that OSC's primary source is a great site called the "library" where they have these magical little pieces of hardware (they're like little hand-held databases) called "books," I believe. I know they sell them at places called "bookstores" as well. We live in one amazing world, don't we?
Instead of this rude pile of steaming sarcasm, pehaps you could have tried this Glynn:
quote:In addition to your internet search, I would also suggest reading books on the subject. Public libraries have historical sections with great resources for this sort of thing. There is also the added advantage of having all the information in these books validated for at the very least, basic fact checking. Most of the books you find will have loads of verifiable references, which your internet resources will almost certainly lack. I believe that OSC uses books as his primary research tool.
I know being a jerk to newbies is sort of your niche here Glynn, but that is not a niche we need filled.
You tell him!
Don't you ever think about people's feelings, PC? Maybe this kid saw your sarcastic remark and decided life wasn't worth living any more, huh, what then?
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I'd like money too. I can give you ten wikipedia links for ten bucks, and that's cutting me own throat. Special once-in-a-lifetime offer.
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