War nerd
by Gary Brecher
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2009–2017first – last mentioned
50% recommend50% neutral
"Part war commentator, part angry humorist, War Nerd Gary Brecher inveighs against pieties of all stripes - Liberian generals, Dick Cheney, U.N. peacekeepers, the neo-cons. and the massive incompetence of military powers. A provocative free thinker, he finds much to admire in the most unlikely places, and not always for the most pacifistic reasons: the Tamil Tigers, the Lebanese Hezbollah, the Danes of 1,000 years ago, and so on, across the globe and through the centuries. Crude, scatological, yet deeply informed, Brecher provides a radically different, completely unvarnished perspective on th
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http://www.amazon.com/War-Nerd-Soft-Skull-Press/dp/097966368... Certainly not dry. I can't vouch for his accuracy, but he knows a lot and could point you to some interesting battles/periods to study.
on “Ask HN: good books about military strategy?” ↗Anybody with an anti-ship miss that they can launch from shore. Gary Brecher/War Nerd wrote an article, that I can't find at the moment, about how vulnerable the US Navy is to attack by shore-based missles where the Navy doesn't have a good stand-off distance.
on “The reasons HMS Queen Elizabeth has two ‘islands’” ↗