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More enticement to read Diffusion of Military Power: there's an entire chapter on carrier warfare, and another on "battlefleet warfare."
Tables like the one below aren't everywhere, but this one is representative of the rigor of the research and writing.
Tables like the one below aren't everywhere, but this one is representative of the rigor of the research and writing.
That is a little scary.
Because it either means:
A) They actually read it and thought it was a good book
or
B) They didn't read it and are just jumping on the Beltway bookmobile bandwagon for this book.
Seriously, if the authors could have condensed the entire novel into a long article length vignette, it would have retained the same amount of expository value on the application of emerging technologies.
I'm not sure if I'd ever call that table of stats nerdery "enticement." And I'm a pretty big nerd.
"Feels like an A."
If you can't dazzle 'em with brilliance, baffle 'em with bullshit. "Dyadic satisfaction?" For fuck's sake. I haven't read the book (I guess after this post, I have to), but if it's got sound reasoning, it sure seems like pretty damned pompous sound reasoning.
Anyone who would unironically use a phrase like "dyadic satisfaction" needs a kick to the nuts. Even being an undergrad sophomore humanities major would be an explanation, not a justification.
Get over the terminology. It's probably a term that's well defined within the genre. Just because you don't understand it at first glance doesn't mean it isn't backed up by logic.
Meh....."mutual agreement" would have done just fine.
Probably would have, but you don't get a PhD or credit in a professional field using layman's terms (odds are you won't make a best seller list either, but that depends on who you want to read your work).
And that's a big problem. On a side note, I don't consider "mutual agreement" as laymen's terms. Just proper English, not ancient Greek.
danpass
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I wonder if they're using it for the citations.
Because the scenario is too simplistic.
Not sure about books, but if you have any interest in podcasts, there's once called Hardcore History that did a huge WWI series called 'Blueprint for Armageddon". I think it's 5 parts and each is 3 or 4 hours a piece. Super in depth and was free when I listened to it.