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I know this isn't /lit/ but do you have any books on war / strategy you could recommend.
I read a bit of sun tzu, On killing, and I am about to read kill chain next.
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>>861870
On War - Clausewitz
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War and Peace might interest you.
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>>861880
thnx sir.
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How can metaphysics and ethics be anything other than unfalsifiable garbage? I know that unfalsifiability as a worthwhile criterion is unfalsifiable, but isn't that just a fucking given due to the munchhausen trilemma?
I'm serious guys, why the fuck should I take metaphysics or ethics seriously?
Does philosophy just suffer from the fact that as soon as it finds answers, the answers go from being philosophy to being common sense?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnchhausen_trilemma
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Is there one guy posting all of these threads?
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>>861273
Or trolls recycling pasta.
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>>861296
Fuck Yes!
Does /his/ agree?
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imagine how did it have to feel being in unit 731 cell waiting to have both legs chopped next morning
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Knees weak, arms are heavy
Mom's spaghetti
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>>860132
Get out Reddit
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>>860115
>raping women to impregnate them and then infecting them and cutting them open just to see what the diseases did to pregnant women
Holy shit.
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Rules for winning in war. 2016-03-19 20:57:25 Post No.859694
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Rules for winning in war. 2016-03-19 20:57:25 Post No.859694
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Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: 'Do not march on Moscow'...
Rule 2 is: 'Do not go fighting with your land armies in China'
- general Bernard Law Montgomery.
What would /his/ add?
What does /his/ agree/disagree with in this?
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>Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: 'Do not march on Moscow'..
>>>/reddit/
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>rule 1
>don't lose
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Logistics, logistics, logistics
Prussia was best.
>Potatoes
>King Fritz wrote gay porn
>Fabulous war uniforms
Discuss.
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Whose idea was it to give a bunch of people as aggressive and friendly as a bunch of tribal new Guineans their own superstate?
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>>859680
Prussia's.
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>>859667
10/10 flag tbf
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Aristocrats had a tendency to die at very inopportune times with catastrophic consequences. Who's death do you think was the most unfortunate?
Pic related; Charles the Bold of Burgundy
>his lands were between France and Germany
>died without an heir leading to 400 years of war in the Rhine basin
Second preference votes go to Prince Balthasar of Spain and Prince Arthur of England, whose deaths both lead to extremely unstable younger brothers taking their respective thrones
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Meh. There could never be an independent burgundy anyway. His death was untimely only because it came after he concieved a child.
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>>859691
Not OP, but why not? I mean, Burgundy had been essentially independent for the better part of 80 years when he died.
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>>859691
The HRE nearly gave him a crown. The guy was richer than the king of England.
While I agree that his death was inopportune the dukes of Burgundy were really important in the formation of what are now the low countries. They united a shattered part of the HRE and led it to become the more thriving piece of land in Europe.
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Is conservatism, traditionalism, certain types of stoicism and self-denial easier or more common in economically stagnant areas? Rural places or countries that aren't really growing all that much in economic terms.
Are economically flourishing and typically urban places more inclined to progressive, non traditionalist and decadent/hedonistic lifestyles?
There is a saying around here that poverty kept people pious and I wonder how much truth there is to it.
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What do you mean by economically flourishing? Areas that have a lot of industry, i.e capitals and population centers or areas that have a high average income i.e rich suburbs?
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>>859344
The former mostly. But I admit I was thinking about a time before mass suburbs, a time when only the really rich might have had a countryside residence while earning their money in a city.
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Stoicism was probably most popular in the era of the 5 Good Emperors.
Epictetus was the greatest and most famous philosopher in the era of Trajan and Antoninus. That was the height of the Roman Empire.
Hadrian was even a student of him, but not a very good one, considering how much he suffered due to his hedonism and his gay lover. But still a very good ruler.
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What's some good and detailed literature about the Holy Roman Empire and its states during the middle ages, ~1100 to ~1300, especially in the general area of Switzerland
I'm willing to spend bucks on good books and maps, even moreso if books with maps
Pic really related
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>>859235
>holy
>roman
>empire
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>>859249
that meme makes me so mad, god damn the original voltaire thread
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The Tao Te Ching Book Two 2016-03-19 18:17:32 Post No.858990
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Book One of the Tao Te Ching is about the Emperor's abilities to claim females and males as the Emperor's !!
For the record /his/ i do not approve of The Tao Te Ching at all !!
good day /his/ !!
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I have no fucking clue what is going on with OP, but rather than start my own thread, I'll ask it here.
What are some good books to get me started on taoism? Ive read so many reviews of translations and what not that I dont know who to listen to.
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>>860427
>books on Taoism
laughingalchemists.jpg
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>>860549
How do i learn it
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Can someone define to me with as little bullshit as possible, who the Cossacks were?
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>>858308
badass motherfuckers
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>>858308
>who the Cossacks were
A forced meme.
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more a lifestyle than ethnic group
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Did anything historically interesting happen here?
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A kangaroo got beaten up by a kiwi once.
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>>857868
Great emu war was a fairly got meme.
Not much else desu, South Africa is a much more interesting hell hole ex colony
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>>857868
the war between orcs and men
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Why is Japanese military so aesthetic?
From the medieval period all the way up into the modern era.
Have they discovered how to make soldiers look cool and have aesthetically pleasing wear?
>inb4 weeb
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>samurai
>military
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>>857772
Yeah they are part of the military
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>>857772
...they fucking are? What else should they be?
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Pictures of historical places that you have taken. 2016-03-19 05:45:20 Post No.857111
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Pictures of historical places that you have taken.
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Lets see what these places are really like
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Notre Dame
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Church at Prague Castle
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Eiffel Tower
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What is the next step after Absurdism?
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>>856590
Leap of faith ;^).
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>>856590
post absurdism
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>>856590
Neo-Ionian School
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How much does it cost to put over a load in the rocket?
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>>856495
East Italy should become the Second Serene Republic of Venice
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>>856495
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>>856495