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Warfare, past and present. Read 'Saladin the Strategist': https://t.co/KT9cGzHRIj More writing: https://t.co/47yApgaler

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During the Seven Years’ War and American Revolution, the French and British fought a total of eight battles in the Indian Ocean without losing a single ship. Yet despite the absence of decisive naval battles, sea power was still key to determining who would dominate the region.🧵
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May Day Dispatch: the third and final installment on Franco-British competition for the Indian Ocean. The Triumph of Sea Power dispatch.bazaarofwar.com/p/the-triumph-…

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“Two armed mobs chasing each other around the country, from which nothing could be learned.” Although Moltke’s apocryphal quote about the American Civil War contained a kernel of truth, the value of studying other wars has rarely laid with immediately applicable lessons.
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New Dispatch: Amateur Tactics, Professional Logistics On how the operational level provides more useful lessons for professional students of military history than the tactical. dispatch.bazaarofwar.com/p/amateur-tact…

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Organización de los hangares de los portaaviones japoneses durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
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Not so at the operational level. March speeds, supplies, force ratios, etc. are legible across time. One does not need to understand the finer differences between a 2½-ton and an oxcart to appreciate their respective capacity, maintenance/fuel requirements, mobility, etc.
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But it remains true that, from a practical POV, campaigns are a better object of study than battles. They are more fundamental units of war than battles, which might not even happen at all, and are more open-ended, involving more decisions large and small. dispatch.bazaarofwar.com/p/the-utility-…
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The Bazaar of War@bazaarofwar·
@Scholars_Stage There's also a key distinction to be made between ancient history, which is what Scheidel does, and classics as part of a broader humanities program.
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T. Greer@Scholars_Stage·
Nobody thinks of Walter Scheidel when you say "the academic left," come on. Scheidel also wants to transform classics by bringing in the geneticists, ecologists, economists, comparative sociologists, and so forth. The original tweet is aimed squarely at critical theory types and we all know it.
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Walter Scheidel specifically argued for remaking the entire field of Classics along these lines in What Is Ancient History (2025), pub. by Princeton University Press. He is the most cited living ancient historian. Academics absolutely have supported that idea.

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Lanius@General_JWJ·
@bazaarofwar I don't want to learn how to ship 30.000 ready meals across a mountain chain! I want to murder twenty million people!
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The Bazaar of War@bazaarofwar·
@Farl12345 You're asking for an essay. That makes as far as the walls go, but I would check out the book - lots of good references in the notes.
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Farl@Farl12345·
@bazaarofwar This also got me thinking: How were very early guns (like the hand cannon) used on the battlefield? What differentiated them from longbows or crossbows?
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The Bazaar of War@bazaarofwar·
British preference for close-in naval tactics had some interesting effects on weapons development. One of the most counterintuitive was the carronade: a short-barreled, low-velocity gun that could smash through enemy ships.🧵
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French naval tactics were typically far more defensive than the British: long-range fires aimed at masts/rigging to disable enemy ships, instead of the hull. This followed from their naval strategy—focused more on supporting land wars than winning at sea. x.com/bazaarofwar/st…

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The Bazaar of War@bazaarofwar·
@Farl12345 Yes, early Chinese guns were entirely anti-personnel, massive rammed-earth city walls were impervious even to the castle-breakers being used in Europe. Andrade does talk about how artillery was used against the more vulnerable gates though.
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Farl@Farl12345·
@bazaarofwar I once read, I think on reddit, that the chinese failure to create gunpowder-heavy artillery (like cannons) were Europeans did by the late 14th century was due to strength of Chinese fortifications compared to European ones, is there any veracity to this claim?
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@AndrewBeeStrong A reasonable person could be forgiven for assuming much more was going on behind the scenes, but that is still not regime change through airpower alone, and the claims to that effect were in any event made well after any such uprising should have appeared.
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@bazaarofwar I agree but I think you made much stronger claim in your article… unlikely yes, but a reasonable person at a time given available public data could’ve estimated the chance of it happening as not zero
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