Defence and Freedom
2012/06/30

Funny military tech history: Genesis of the "Fritz" helmet (PASGT)

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. This study describes a part of the research, development and testing effort that led to the typical German shape of the more recent U.S...
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2012/06/26

Risk management and Sacrifice

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. Recently I got into an argument with some people on another blogs' comments.  I offered a certain argument/assertion among others; tha...
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2012/06/23

French armoured reconnaissance prototypes

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. I wasn't a 100% fan of the French Pahnhard SPHINX armoured recce car when it was unveiled. It was smaller (more a good thing than no...
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2012/06/18

The three faces of cohesion

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. Cohesion was understood to be of great importance for combat units' abilities long before Martin van Creveld added it to the more acad...
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2012/06/17

Digging the grave III

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. Lay back, relax and try to remember the typical features of oppressive, authoritarian police states in Sci Fi since the 80's. What a...
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Missed survivability opportunities in WW2 (army-related)

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. The Second World War was the most deadly war so far, exceeding even the Taiping Rebellion , the First World War and probably even the 19...
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2012/06/11

A subtle hint for bureaucracies

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. Many military bureaucracies wonder how to better motivate their troops and especially potential recruits. I embedded this video as a subt...
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2012/06/09

We like to organise problems away

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. I've observed with some degree of fascination how Mr. Krugman - an economics Nobel laureate - discussed the Western economic trouble...
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2012/06/05

[Deutsch] Generalleutnant d. Reserve Hyazinth Graf Strachwitz von Groß-Zauche und Camminetz: Vom Kavallerieoffizier zum Führer gepanzerter Verbände

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. (Book review of a German language book. The book is useless to you if you cannot read German, thus this is written in German, too.) ...
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2012/06/02

Questions to readers

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. As mentioned before, I'm writing a book. The primary problem isn't the content, but to write a book instead of something much, mu...
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