I enjoyed watching a podcast, recently, by Sean Gabb, in which he explained, pretty convincingly, that Nero’s downfall was caused, not by his excesses, but by a financial crisis. The cost of the Boud… (View Post)

After winning, he shit the bed. (View Post)

Hegseth & co. believe in the kind of pop history that produces “300”. They would think that eg Genghis Khan won his campaigns because he was a hard man, who did not shrink from massacring million… (View Post)

It’s a real problem to have a military campaign led by people who think winning wars is all about being hard men, and that using your brain is a form of mutiny. (View Post)

Soldiers’ grievances drive pretty much, almost every successful revolution. Any authoritarian regime which can’t pay its soldiers is in a lot of trouble. That’s when people start wondering whether it… (View Post)