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Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part IIIa: Focusing on Politics This is the first half of the third part (I, II) of our long-delayed series looking at Hearts of...
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Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part IIIa: Focusing on Politics

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This is the first half of the third part (I, II) of our long-delayed series looking at Hearts of Iron IV, Paradox Interactive’s World War II grand strategy game, easily one of the most popular historical games on the market today and thus tremendously influential in both the...
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Fireside Friday, September 4, 2026 Hey folks! Fireside this week! Last week’s post was a monster (over 10,000 words compared to our...
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Fireside Friday, September 4, 2026

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4 weeks ago
Hey folks! Fireside this week! Last week’s post was a monster (over 10,000 words compared to our more typically ~6,000) which left me with some non-blog catching up to do. Next week, we’ll be starting our next Teaching Paradox series, this time looking at Hearts of Iron IV, which...
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Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part Va: Putting It Together This is the first half of the final part (I, IIa, IIb, III, IVa, IVb, Va) of our apparently...
8th Aug 2026
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Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part Va: Putting It Together

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8th Aug 2026
This is the first half of the final part (I, IIa, IIb, III, IVa, IVb, Va) of our apparently five-part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are organized, in particular exploring the principle that armies cannot help but recreate their civilian...
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Collections: On the Declaration of Independence Hello again all. It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to...
4th Jul 2026
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Collections: On the Declaration of Independence

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4th Jul 2026
Hello again all. It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States. This is going to be a bit more of an open musing than an argument as compared to previous years (2021, 2022, 2023, … Continue...
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Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part I: Why They Fight This week I want to try something a little different. Rather than taking apart a particular fantasy...
6th Jun 2026
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Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part I: Why They Fight

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6th Jun 2026
This week I want to try something a little different. Rather than taking apart a particular fantasy military system, I thought I might try to lay out a more general sense of how military systems tend to map on to societies, both because such general historical frameworks are...
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Collections: Raising Carthaginian Armies, Part III: Generals, Warlords and Vassals This is the third part (I, II) of our series looking at how Carthage’s complex, multipart armies...
1st May 2026
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Collections: Raising Carthaginian Armies, Part III: Generals, Warlords and Vassals

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1st May 2026
This is the third part (I, II) of our series looking at how Carthage’s complex, multipart armies were raised and constituted. Last time, we looked at the backbone of Carthage’s armies: North African troops levied out of Carthage’s subject communities in North Africa. These...
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Collections: Reconstructing the Roman Pectoral This week we’re going to look a specific piece of early Roman military equipment, the humble bronze...
3rd Apr 2026
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Collections: Reconstructing the Roman Pectoral

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3rd Apr 2026
This week we’re going to look a specific piece of early Roman military equipment, the humble bronze pectoral, which it turns out is surprisingly tricky for us to confidently reconstruct, in part because the period of its use that most interests us (the run from c. 264 to c. 146...
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Fireside Friday, March 6, 2026 Hey everyone, we have a Fireside this week and then next week we’ll get back to our somewhat silly...
6th Mar 2026
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Fireside Friday, March 6, 2026

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6th Mar 2026
Hey everyone, we have a Fireside this week and then next week we’ll get back to our somewhat silly break discussing the mechanics of warfare in Dune. But I did want to stop to chatter a bit about something that came up in that discussion, which is something about the nature of...
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Fireside Friday, February 6, 2026 (On Ancient Migrations) Hey folks, Fireside this week! I have ended up a bit behind in my work and as always it is the blog...
6th Feb 2026
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Fireside Friday, February 6, 2026 (On Ancient Migrations)

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6th Feb 2026
Hey folks, Fireside this week! I have ended up a bit behind in my work and as always it is the blog that much suffer first. In this case, we have in two weeks twice managed to have snow which only increased my workload (it didn’t cancel any of my classes, but did require me …...
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New Acquisitions: Tolkien and Éowyn Between Two Wars (PPP Moot Keynote) Hey folks! I am working on finishing up some things this week, so I thought I would post the text of...
3rd Jan 2026
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New Acquisitions: Tolkien and Éowyn Between Two Wars (PPP Moot Keynote)

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3rd Jan 2026
Hey folks! I am working on finishing up some things this week, so I thought I would post the text of the keynote I gave at the Prancing Pony Podcast Moot earlier this December. I’ve made some minor edits to conform a bit more to the form of a blog post, but this remains very …...
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