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2026 44

  1. Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part IVa: The Fires of Industry
  2. Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part IIIb: The Opposite of Love
  3. Gap Week: October 9, 2026
  4. Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part IIIa: Focusing on Politics
  5. Fireside Friday, September 25, 2026
  6. Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part II: Divisions, Designers and Doctrines
  7. Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part I: Operational Art
  8. Fireside Friday, September 4, 2026
  9. Collections: Global Trade and United States Navy
  10. Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part Vb: Pixel Armies for Pixel Societies
  11. Fireside Friday, August 14, 2026 (On Financing Pre-Modern Navies)
  12. Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part Va: Putting It Together
  13. Fireside Friday, July 31, 2026 (On The Odyssey)
  14. Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part IVb: Cohesion
  15. Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part IVa: Leadership
  16. Fireside Friday, July 10, 2026 (On the Chud Vision of Roman History)
  17. Collections: On the Declaration of Independence
  18. Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part III: Paying For It
  19. Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part IIb: Officials, Contractors and Professionals
  20. Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part IIa: Mobilization without Administration
  21. Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part I: Why They Fight
  22. Gap Week: May 29, 2026
  23. Collections: Raising Carthaginian Armies, Part V: How a Carthaginian Army Fights
  24. Fireside Friday, May 15, 2026
  25. Collections: Raising Carthaginian Armies, Part IV: Allies and Mercenaries
  26. Collections: Raising Carthaginian Armies, Part III: Generals, Warlords and Vassals
  27. Collections: Raising Carthaginian Armies, Part II: The African Backbone
  28. Fireside Friday, April 17, 2026
  29. Collections: Raising Carthaginian Armies, Part I: Finding Carthaginians
  30. Collections: Reconstructing the Roman Pectoral
  31. Gap Week, March 27, 2026 (Society for Military History Annual Meeting)
  32. Miscellanea: The War in Iran
  33. Gap Week: March 20, 2026
  34. Collections: Warfare in Dune, Part II: The Fremen Jihad
  35. Fireside Friday, March 6, 2026
  36. Collections: Warfare in Dune, Part I: Fighting Faufreluches
  37. Collections: Ancient Mediterranean Mercenaries!
  38. Collections: Against the State – A Primer on Terrorism, Insurgency and Protest
  39. Fireside Friday, February 6, 2026 (On Ancient Migrations)
  40. Collections: The Late Bronze Age Collapse, A Very Brief Introduction
  41. Fireside Friday, January 23, 2025 (On the Cowardice of the Statue PfPs)
  42. Collections: Hoplite Wars, Part IVb: Training Hoplites?
  43. Collections: Hoplite Wars: Part IVa, The Status of Hoplites
  44. New Acquisitions: Tolkien and Éowyn Between Two Wars (PPP Moot Keynote)

2025 52

  1. Gap Week: December Holidays, 2025
  2. Intermission: Battle Pulses
  3. Collections: Hoplite Wars, Part IIIb: A Phalanx By Any Other Name
  4. Collections: Hoplite Wars, Part IIIa: An Archaic Phalanx?
  5. Gap Week, November 28, 2025 (Thanksgiving)
  6. Collections: Hoplite Wars, Part II: Hoplite Equipment, Hoplight or Hopheavy?
  7. Collections: Hoplite Wars, Part I: The Othismos over Othismos
  8. Fireside Friday, November 7, 2025 (On the Roman Strategy Debate)
  9. Miscellania: Europa Universalis V Confirmed! (First Impressions)
  10. Fireside Friday, October 24, 2025
  11. Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part V: Life In Cycles
  12. Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVe: The No-Rest Of It
  13. Gap Week: October 3, 2025
  14. Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVd: Spinning Plates
  15. Fireside Friday, September 19, 2025 (On the Use and Abuse of Malthus)
  16. Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVc: Rent and Extraction
  17. Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVb: Working Days
  18. Fireside Friday, August 27, 2025 (On Defending History)
  19. Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVa: Subsistence and a Little More
  20. Fireside Friday, August 15, 2025 (On Latin Pronunciation)
  21. Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IIIb: Children and Childrearing
  22. Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IIIa: Family Formation
  23. Gap Week, July 25, 2025
  24. Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part II: Starting at the End
  25. Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part I: Households
  26. Collections: The American Civil-Military Relationship
  27. Fireside Friday, June 27, 2025 (On the Limits of Realism)
  28. Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator’s Iconic Opening Battle, Part III
  29. Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator’s Iconic Opening Battle, Part II
  30. Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator’s Iconic Opening Battle, Part I
  31. Fireside Friday, May 30, 2025 (On Professional Military Education)
  32. Collections: The Logistics of Road War in the Wasteland
  33. Collections: Alexander Goes West (A Silly Counterfactual)
  34. Fireside Friday, May 9, 2025 (On Lighter Bows)
  35. Collections: Why Archers Didn’t Volley Fire
  36. Collections: How Gandalf Proved Mightiest: Spiritual Power in Tolkien
  37. Collections: Why Celebrimbor Fell but Boromir Conquered: the Moral Universe of Tolkien
  38. Collections: The Siege of Eregion, Part V: What Tactics?
  39. Fireside Friday, April 4, 2025
  40. Gap Week: March 28, 2025
  41. Collections: The Siege of Eregion, Part IV: What Siege Equipment?
  42. Collections: The Siege of Eregion, Part III: What Catapults?
  43. Collections: What Do Historians Do?
  44. Collections: The Siege of Eregion, Part II: What Siege Camp?
  45. Collections: The Siege of Eregion, Part I: What Logistics?
  46. Fireside Friday, February 14, 2025 (On Grant Funding)
  47. Collections: The Strange Armor of Dragon Age: The Veilguard
  48. Collections: On the Gracchi, Part II: Gaius Gracchus
  49. Gap Week (January 24, 2025)
  50. Collections: On the Gracchi, Part I: Tiberius Gracchus
  51. Fireside Friday, January 10, 2025
  52. Collections: Coinage and the Tyranny of Fantasy ‘Gold’

2024 47

  1. Gap Week: December 27, 2024 (Year in Review)
  2. Collections: On Bread and Circuses
  3. Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part II
  4. Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part I
  5. Collections: The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor
  6. Fireside Friday, November 22, 2024 (Roman Naming Conventions)
  7. Fireside Friday, November 15, 2024
  8. Collections: The Afterlife of the Roman Republic
  9. Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff!
  10. New Acquisitions: 1933 and the Definition of Fascism
  11. Continues the Hiatus, 2024
  12. Comes the Hiatus, 2024!
  13. Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIb: Imperator Interrupted
  14. Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIa: De Re Publica
  15. Fireside Friday, August 16, 2024
  16. Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIb: Built in a Day
  17. Gap Week: August 2, 2024
  18. Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIa: Pops and Chains
  19. Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part I: Divisa in Partes Tres
  20. Fireside Friday, July 12, 2024
  21. Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
  22. Fireside Friday, June 28, 2024
  23. Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part III: Going To War With the Army You Have
  24. Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part II: Government Without States
  25. Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part I: Aristocrats, Retainers and Clients
  26. Fireside Friday, May 31, 2024 (Academic Departments)
  27. Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great? Part II
  28. Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great? Part I
  29. Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024
  30. Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part V: Epilogue
  31. Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVc: Perseus
  32. Gap Week: April 19, 2024 (Manor Lords First Impression)
  33. Fireside Friday, April 12, 2024
  34. Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III
  35. Fireside Friday, March 29, 2024 (On Roman Values)
  36. Fireside Friday, March 22, 2024
  37. Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVa: Philip V
  38. Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIb: Pyrrhus
  39. Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIa: Peak Pike-Phalanx
  40. Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism)
  41. Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIb: Handfuls of Maniples
  42. Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIa: How a Legion Fights
  43. Fireside Friday, February 2, 2024 (On City Building Games)
  44. Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ib: Subjects of the Successors
  45. Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ia: Heirs of Alexander
  46. Fireside Friday, January 12, 2024
  47. Collections: The Journey of the Roman Gladius and Other Swords

2023 52

  1. Gap Week: December 29, 2023 (Year In Review)
  2. Collections: How Many People? Ancient Demography
  3. Collections: Shield Walls and Spacing: Hollywood Mobs and Ancient Tactics
  4. Fireside Friday, December 8, 2023
  5. Gap Week: December 1, 2023
  6. Collections: Roman Infantry Tactics: Why the Pilum and not a Spear?
  7. Fireside Friday, November 17, 2023
  8. Collections: The Mediterranean Iron Omni-Spear
  9. Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Provinces
  10. Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
  11. Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Socii
  12. Collections: Ancient Greek and Phoenician Colonization
  13. Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part V: The Courts
  14. Fireside Friday, September 29, 2023 (On Academic Hiring)
  15. Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IV: The Senate
  16. Collections: The Gap in the Armor of Baldur’s Gate and 5e
  17. Michael Taylor on The Development of the M1 Garand and its Implications
  18. Fireside Friday, September 1, 2023
  19. Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys
  20. Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIb: Imperium
  21. Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIa: Starting Down the Path of Honors
  22. Fireside Friday, August 4, 2023
  23. Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part II: Romans, Assemble!
  24. Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part I: SPQR
  25. Fireside Friday, July 14, 2023
  26. Collections: The Status Quo Coalition
  27. Collections: The Marian Reforms Weren’t a Thing
  28. Fireside Friday, June 23, 2023 (On Historical Judgement)
  29. Collections: How To Raise a Roman Army: The Dilectus
  30. Fireside Friday: June 9, 2023
  31. Collections: Roman Roads
  32. Collections: On the Reign of Cleopatra
  33. Michael Taylor on John Keegan, Part II: The Mask of Command
  34. Collections: Who Were ‘the Celts’ and How Did They (Some of Them) Fight?
  35. Collections: The Great War: Western Front, A Gain of Inches
  36. Collections: Academic Ranks Explained Or What On Earth Is an Adjunct?
  37. Gap Week: April 20, 2023
  38. Collections: How to Polis, Part III: People and Gods Beyond the Politai
  39. Collections: How to Polis 101, Part IIc: The Courts
  40. Michael Taylor on John Keegan’s The Face of Battle: A Retrospective
  41. Collections: How to Polis, 101, Part IIb: Archons
  42. Collections: How to Polis, 101, Part IIa: Politeia in the Polis
  43. Collections: How to Polis, 101, Part I: Component Parts
  44. Fireside Friday, March 3, 2023
  45. Collections: One Year Into the War in Ukraine
  46. Collections: On ChatGPT
  47. Fireside Friday, February 10, 2023 (On Academic Freedom)
  48. Collections: The Nitpicks of Power, Part III: That Númenórean Charge
  49. Collections: The Nitpicks of Power, Part II: Falling Towers
  50. Collections: The Nitpicks of Power, Part I: Exploding Forges
  51. Referenda ad Senatum: January 13, 2023: Roman Traditionalism, Ancient Dates and Imperial Spies
  52. Gap Week, January 6, 2023

2022 50

  1. Miscellanea: What’s the Problem With Antigone?
  2. Fireside Friday, December 23, 2022 (W(h)ither History)
  3. Collections: Why Rings of Power’s Middle Earth Feels Flat
  4. Meet a Historian: James Baillie on Digital Humanities and the Medieval Caucasus
  5. Collections: Why Roman Egypt Was Such a Strange Province
  6. Fireside Friday, October 28, 2022 (The Book Project)
  7. Miscellanea: Victoria III Confirmed! (First Impressions)
  8. Collections: Strategic Airpower 101
  9. Collections: Teaching Paradox, Crusader Kings III, Part IV: Emperors, Soldiers and Peasants
  10. Collections: Teaching Paradox, Crusader Kings III, Part III: Constructivisting a Kingdom
  11. Collections: Teaching Paradox, Crusader Kings III, Part IIb: Cracks in the House of Islam
  12. Collections: Teaching Paradox, Crusader Kings III, Part IIa: Rascally Vassals
  13. Collections: Teaching Paradox, Crusader Kings III, Part I: Making It Personal
  14. Fireside Friday, September 9, 2022
  15. Gap Week: September 2, 2022
  16. New Acquisitions: On the Wisdom of Noah Smith
  17. Collections: Why No Roman Industrial Revolution?
  18. Collections: This. Isn’t. Sparta. Retrospective
  19. Collections: Logistics, How Did They Do It, Part III: On the Move
  20. Fireside Friday, August 5, 2022
  21. Collections: Logistics, How Did They Do It, Part II: Foraging
  22. Fireside Friday, July 22, 2022
  23. Collections: Logistics, How Did They Do It, Part I: The Problem
  24. Collections: Is the United States Exceptional?
  25. Collections: Total Generalship: Commanding Pre-Modern Armies, Part IIIc: Morale and Cohesion
  26. Collections: Total Generalship: Commanding Pre-Modern Armies, Part IIIb: Officers
  27. Collections: Total Generalship: Commanding Pre-Modern Armies, Part IIIa: Discipline
  28. Fireside Friday, June 10, 2022
  29. Collections: Total Generalship: Commanding Pre-Modern Armies, Part II: Commands
  30. Collections: Total Generalship: Commanding Pre-Modern Armies, Part I: Reports
  31. Fireside Friday, May 20, 2022
  32. Collections: Ancient ‘Tanks’? Chariots, Scythed Chariots and Carroballistae
  33. Collections: When is a ‘Tank’ Not a Tank?
  34. Gap Week, April 29, 2022
  35. Fireside Friday, April 22, 2022
  36. Collections: Expeditions: Rome and the Perils of Verisimilitude
  37. Fireside Friday, April 8, 2022
  38. Collection: Total War’s Missing Infantry-Type
  39. Miscellanea: A Very Short Glossary of Military Terminology
  40. Collections: The Roman Dictatorship: How Did It Work? Did It Work?
  41. Collections: Nuclear Deterrence 101
  42. Collections: How the Weak Can Win – A Primer on Protracted War
  43. Miscellanea: Understanding the War in Ukraine
  44. Miscellanea: Thoughts on CKIII: Royal Court
  45. Collections: Rome: Decline and Fall? Part III: Things
  46. Fireside Friday, February 4, 2022
  47. Collections: Rome: Decline and Fall? Part II: Institutions
  48. Fireside Friday, January 21, 2022 (On Public Scholarship)
  49. Collections: Rome: Decline and Fall? Part I: Words
  50. Fireside Friday: January 7, 2022

2021 53

  1. Collections: Fortification, Part V: The Age of Industrial Firepower
  2. Gap Week: December 24, 2021
  3. Collections: Fortification, Part IV: French Guns and Italian Lines
  4. Collections: Fortification, Part III: Castling
  5. Gap Week: December 3, 2021
  6. Fireside Friday: November 26, 2021
  7. Referenda ad Senatum: November 19, 2021: Hidden String-Pullers, Falling Empires and Tactics Against Horse Archers!
  8. Collections: Fortification, Part II: Romans Playing Cards
  9. Miscellanea: Reflections on the Sands of Dune (2021)
  10. Collections: Fortification, Part I: The Besieger’s Playbook
  11. Gap Week: October 22
  12. Fireside Friday: October 15, 2021
  13. Collections: Luigi Cadorna Was The Worst
  14. Collections: So You Want To Go To Grad School (in the Academic Humanities)?
  15. Collections: No Man’s Land, Part II: Breaking the Stalemate
  16. Collections: No Man’s Land, Part I: The Trench Stalemate
  17. Meet a Historian: Michael Taylor on Why We Need Classics
  18. Collections: Teaching Paradox, Victoria II Part III: World’s Fair
  19. Fireside Friday: August 27, 2021
  20. Collections: Teaching Paradox, Victoria II, Part II: The Ruin of War
  21. Collections: Teaching Paradox, Victoria II, Part I: Mechanics and Gears
  22. Referenda ad Senatum: August 6, 2021: Feelings at the Fall of the Republic, Ancient and Medieval Living Standards, and Zombies!
  23. Collections: The Queen’s Latin or Who Were the Romans, Part V: Saving And Losing an Empire
  24. Collections: The Queen’s Latin or Who Were the Romans? Part IV: The Color of Purple
  25. Collections: The Queen’s Latin or Who Were the Romans? Part III: Bigotry and Diversity at Rome
  26. Fireside Friday: July 9, 2021
  27. Collections: My Country Isn’t a Nation
  28. Collections: The Queen’s Latin or Who Were the Romans, Part II: Citizens and Allies
  29. Gap Week: June 18, 2021
  30. Collections: The Queen’s Latin or Who Were the Romans? Part I: Beginnings and Legends
  31. Fireside Friday: June 4, 2021
  32. Collections: Teaching Paradox, Europa Universalis IV, Part IV: Why Europe?
  33. Meet a Historian: Robin S. Reich on Making Sense of Medieval Medicine: Humors, Weird Animal Parts, and Experiential Knowledge
  34. Collections: Teaching Paradox, Europa Universalis IV, Part III: Europa Provincalis
  35. Collections: Teaching Paradox, Europa Universalis IV, Part II: Red Queens
  36. Collections: Teaching Paradox, Europa Universalis IV, Part I: State of Play
  37. Gap Week: April 22, 2021
  38. Fireside Friday: April 16, 2021
  39. Collections: Clothing, How Did They Make it? Part IVb: Cloth Money
  40. Collections: Clothing, How Did They Make It? Part IVa: Dyed in the Wool
  41. Fireside Friday: March 26, 2021 (On the Nature of Ancient Evidence)
  42. Collections: Clothing, How Did They Make It? Part III: Spin Me Right Round…
  43. Collections: Clothing, How Did They Make It? Part II: Scouring in the Shire
  44. Collections: Clothing, How Did They Make It? Part I: High Fiber
  45. Fireside Friday, February 26, 2021
  46. Collections: The Universal Warrior, Part III: The Cult of the Badass
  47. Collections: The Universal Warrior, Part IIb: A Soldier’s Lot
  48. Collections: The Universal Warrior, Part IIa: The Many Faces of Battle
  49. Collections: The Universal Warrior, Part I: Soldiers, Warriors, and…
  50. Fireside Friday, January 22, 2021
  51. Miscellanea: Insurrections, Ancient and Modern (And Also Meet the Academicats)
  52. Collections: That Dothraki Horde, Part IV: Screamers and Howlers
  53. Fireside Friday: January 1, 2021

2020 52

  1. Collections: That Dothraki Horde, Part III: Horse Fiddles
  2. Collections: That Dothraki Horde, Part II: Subsistence on the Hoof
  3. Collections: That Dothraki Horde, Part I: Barbarian Couture
  4. Fireside Friday, November 27, 2020
  5. Collections: Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla and the Unfortunate Implications
  6. Collections: Why Military History?
  7. Collections: Iron, How Did They Make It, Addendum: Crucible Steel and Cast Iron
  8. Fireside Friday, October 30, 2020
  9. Things You Might Have Missed, October 21, 2020
  10. Collections: Iron, How Did They Make It, Part IVb: Work Hardening, or Hardly Working?
  11. Collections: Iron, How Did They Make It, Part IVa: Steel Yourself
  12. Collections: Iron, How Did They Make It, Part III: Hammer-time
  13. Collections: Iron, How Did They Make It? Part II, Trees for Blooms
  14. Collections: Iron, How Did They Make It? Part I, Mining
  15. Miscellanea: My Thoughts on Crusader Kings III
  16. Collections: Bread, How Did They Make It? Addendum: Rice!
  17. Fireside Friday, August 28, 2020
  18. Collections: Bread, How Did They Make It? Part IV: Markets, Merchants and the Tax Man
  19. Fireside Friday: August 14th, 2020
  20. Collections: Bread, How Did they Make it? Part III: Actually Farming
  21. Collections: Bread, How Did They Make It? Part II: Big Farms
  22. Collections: Bread, How Did They Make It? Part I: Farmers!
  23. Fireside Friday: July 17th, 2020
  24. Collections: How Your History Gets Made
  25. Collections: The Practical Case on Why We Need the Humanities
  26. Fireside Friday, June 26th, 2020
  27. Collections: The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Part VIII: The Mind of Saruman
  28. Collections: The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Part VII: Hanging by a Thread
  29. Collections: The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Part VI: Is This a Good Sword?
  30. Collections: The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Part V: Ladders are Chaos
  31. Collections: The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Part IV: Men of Rohan
  32. Collections: The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Part III: The Host of Saruman
  33. Collections: The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Part II: Total Warg
  34. Collections: The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Part I: Bargaining for Goods at Helm’s Gate
  35. Fireside Friday: April 24, 2020
  36. Collections: A Trip Through Bertran de Born (Martial Values in the 12th Century Occitan Nobility)
  37. Collections: A Trip Through ‘Antarah Ibn Shaddad (Victory Songs)
  38. Fireside Friday: April 3, 2020
  39. Collections: A Trip Through Dhuoda of Uzès (Carolingian Values)
  40. Collections: Why Don’t We Use Chemical Weapons Anymore?
  41. New Acquisitions: Hoplite-Style Disease Control (March 17, 2020)
  42. Fireside Friday: March 13, 2020
  43. Fireside Friday: March 6, 2020
  44. Collections: The Fremen Mirage, Part IV: Desert Power
  45. Collections: The Fremen Mirage, Interlude: Ways of the Fremen
  46. Collections: The Fremen Mirage, Part IIIb: Myths of the Atreides
  47. Collections: The Fremen Mirage Part IIIa: …by the Princess Irulan
  48. Collections: The Fremen Mirage, Part II: Water Spilled on the Sand
  49. Gap Week Roundup, Jan. 24, 2020
  50. Collections: The Fremen Mirage, Part I: War at the Dawn of Civilization
  51. Collections: Gondor Heavy Infantry Kit Review
  52. Miscellanea: SCS-AIA Conference, 2020!

2019 48

  1. Miscellanea: The Latest Jedi
  2. Collections: Starships in Silhouette
  3. Collections: A Trip Through Cicero (Natural Law)
  4. Collections: A Trip Through Thucydides (Fear, Honor and Interest)
  5. Collections: Where Does My Main Battery Go?
  6. Collections: Why Are There No Empires in Age of Empires?
  7. Collections: Practical Polytheism, Part IV: Little Gods and Big People
  8. Collections: Practical Polytheism, Part III: Polling the Gods
  9. Collections: Practical Polytheism, Part II: Practice
  10. Collections: Practical Polytheism, Part I: Knowledge
  11. Collections: The Battlefield After the Battle
  12. Collections: The Preposterous Tactics of the Loot Train Battle (Game of Thrones, S7E4)
  13. New Acquisitions: How Fast Do Armies Move?
  14. Collections: The Preposterous Logistics of the Loot Train Battle (Game of Thrones, S7E4)
  15. Collections: This. Isn’t. Sparta. Part VII: Spartan Ends
  16. Collections: This. Isn’t. Sparta. Part VI: Spartan Battle
  17. Collections: This. Isn’t. Sparta, Part V: Spartan Government
  18. New Acquisitions: Class, Status and the Early Church
  19. Collections: This. Isn’t. Sparta. Part IV: Spartan Wealth
  20. Collections: This. Isn’t. Sparta. Part III: Spartan Women
  21. Collections: This. Isn’t. Sparta. Part II: Spartan Equality
  22. Collections: This. Isn’t. Sparta. Part I: Spartan School
  23. Miscellanea: Sparta Glossary
  24. Collections: War Elephants, Part III: Elephant Memories
  25. Collections: War Elephants, Part II: Elephants against Wolves
  26. Collections: War Elephants, Part I: Battle Pachyderms
  27. Collections: The Lonely City, Part II: Real Cities Have Curves
  28. Miscellanea: A Brief Discussion of History and Scope, or What Am I Doing Here?
  29. Collections: The Lonely City, Part I: The Ideal City
  30. Collections: Archery, Distance and ‘Kiting’
  31. Collections: Oaths! How do they Work?
  32. Collections: Punching Through Some Armor Myths
  33. Collections: The Siege of Gondor: Part VI: Black Sails and Gleaming Banners
  34. New Acquisitions: How It Wasn’t: Game of Thrones and the Middle Ages, Part III
  35. Collections: The Siege of Gondor, Part V: Just Flailing About Flails
  36. New Acquisitions: How It Wasn’t: Game of Thrones and the Middle Ages, Part II
  37. Collections: The Siege of Gondor, Part IV: The Cavalry Arrives
  38. New Acquisitions: How It Wasn’t: Game of Thrones and the Middle Ages, Part I
  39. Collections: The Siege of Gondor, Part III: Having Fun Storming the City
  40. New Acquisitions: Elective Monarchy and the Future of Westeros
  41. Collections: The Siege of Gondor, Part II: These Beacons are Liiiiiiit
  42. New Acquisitions: Lannister Infantry Kit Review
  43. Collections: The Siege of Gondor, Part I: Professionals Talk Logistics
  44. New Acquisitions: Unsullied Kit Review
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