Logistics, How Did They Do It, Part III: On the Move
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#3This has been one of my favourite of his series. I've been thinking about making a game with some of my friends to model the complexity of moving an army around.
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#4the first two parts of this blog post series absolutely blew my mind and changed how I think about an army in the real world.
Can't wait to read this post.
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#5I'd love to read something similar about how taxation and the management and securement of (moving or fixed) gold/money reserves worked back then in practice.
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#6I'd love to read something similar about how taxation and the management and securement of (moving or fixed) gold/money reserves worked back then in practice.
Agreed. The author makes a few comments in the second part of the series about how ships of gold were the main way to ferry money around and how if that went wrong it had sweeping consequences, too. Would be a really interesting series fro this author.
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#7Amazing work from Bret as usual, but very sad that this kind of popular/actually useful history is completely unrewarded in academia. This is far more valuable than whatever top university press book most historians write.
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#8this is such a good find! I've been playing age of empires 4 and got really interested in the military before gunpowder
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#9Have enjoyed this series a lot. His whole blog is great and you can easily spend hours reading through his lengthy, well-researched posts if you have an interest in premodern military history or topics that brush up against it (i.e. strategy video games, fantasy literature, etc).
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#10Mind blown. So many variables to consider, so many options. Excellent read.