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a collection of unmitigated pedantry a look at history and popular culture skip to content a collection of unmitigated pedantry a look at history and popular culture menu home resources for teachers resources for world builders book recommendation list contact about the pedant 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 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 social structures on the battlefield last time we looked at continue reading collections pre modern armies for worldbuilders part va putting it together bret devereaux collections how to civic governance 120 comments august 7 2026 27 minutes fireside friday july 31 2026 on the odyssey hey folks fireside this week as i am fresh back from a short family trip before the jaws of the fall semester close upon me i did get a chance to see christopher nolan s the odyssey and i wrote a review of it for foreign policy alas paywalled i assume although by far the most continue reading fireside friday july 31 2026 on the odyssey bret devereaux fireside 271 comments july 31 2026 july 31 2026 13 minutes collections pre modern armies for worldbuilders part ivb cohesion this is the second half of the fourth part i iia iib iii iva of our honestly who knows how many part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre modern armies are organized last week we took a look at how the leadership of these armies was drawn from the existing elite classes of their societies as with continue reading collections pre modern armies for worldbuilders part ivb cohesion bret devereaux collections how to civic governance military theory primers 213 comments july 24 2026 23 minutes collections pre modern armies for worldbuilders part iva leadership this is the fourth part i iia iib iii of our honestly who knows how many part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre modern armies are organized we ve talked about how armies are recruited equipped and paid for in particular as we ve seen so far the structure of recruitment organization and payment such as it was is continue reading collections pre modern armies for worldbuilders part iva leadership bret devereaux collections how to civic governance 356 comments july 18 2026 23 minutes fireside friday july 10 2026 on the chud vision of roman history hey folks fireside this week i ve been a bit behind because we had some family travel followed by an issue with a water leak in the basement which has pushed me out of my normal home office space fortunately no books or computers were harmed and we re working on water damage restoration now all of continue reading fireside friday july 10 2026 on the chud vision of roman history bret devereaux fireside 362 comments july 10 2026 july 29 2026 14 minutes 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 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 reading collections on the declaration of independence bret devereaux collections 274 comments july 4 2026 july 6 2026 19 minutes collections pre modern armies for worldbuilders part iii paying for it this is the third part i iia iib iii of our honestly who knows how many part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre modern armies are recruited raised equipped and paid in the last part we looked at the various ways pre modern armies might mobilize their armies a process that mainly consisted of recruiting and equipping soldiers continue reading collections pre modern armies for worldbuilders part iii paying for it bret devereaux collections how to civic governance 294 comments june 26 2026 27 minutes collections pre modern armies for worldbuilders part iib officials contractors and professionals this is the second half of the second part i iia iib of our honestly who knows how many part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre modern armies are recruited raised equipped and paid while i hope this will be of great interest to the history nerds out there i ve opted to structure this specifically as a continue reading collections pre modern armies for worldbuilders part iib officials contractors and professionals bret devereaux collections 259 comments june 19 2026 25 minutes collections pre modern armies for worldbuilders part iia mobilization without administration this is the second part i iia of our honestly who knows how many part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre modern armies are recruited raised equipped and paid while i hope this will be of great interest to the history nerds out there i ve opted to structure this specifically as a service for the worldbuilders out continue reading collections pre modern armies for worldbuilders part iia mobilization without administration bret devereaux collections 367 comments june 12 2026 26 minutes 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 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 handy for thinking about the past but continue reading collections pre modern armies for worldbuilders part i why they fight bret devereaux collections 461 comments june 5 2026 23 minutes posts navigation older posts search for updates every friday you can support this project via patreon and by spreading the word recent posts collections pre modern armies for worldbuilders part va putting it together fireside 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