In the Next War

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• Early modern operational research?

  6 September 2011 in Before 1900, Blogging and tweeting

  I've been remiss in not noting the arrival of Military History Carnival #28 at Cliopatria. While it seems to be moving from a round-up of the best military history blogging to covering 'military history on the Internet' generally, there are still some good old-fashioned blogs therein. For example, Sellswords, mercenaries and condottieri presents a fascinating [...]

• Acquisitions

  2 September 2011 in Acquisitions, Books

  Ron Mackay. The Last Blitz: Operation Steinbock, Luftwaffe Operations over Britain January to June 1944. Walton-on-Thames: Red Kite, 2011. It's very unusual to find a book on the Baby Blitz, so I had to have it. I would have liked to have seen more on the British military and civilian responses -- the core of [...]

• On ‘the Few’

  31 August 2011 in 1940s, Books, Ephemera, Periodicals, Pictures, Words

  [Cross-posted at Cliopatria.] As Alan Allport has noted, Winston Churchill's famous speech of 20 August 1940 was and is remembered for a 'single, unrepresentative sentence', i.e.: Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. The speech was given during the Battle of Britain, and 'the Few' [...]

• Perth

  27 August 2011 in Australia, Pictures, Travel 2011

  Some photos I took while in Perth for the AAEH. I didn't have a lot of time for sightseeing in Perth itself; apart from a bit of a wander through the CBD and a look at the Museum of Western Australia (disappointing after seeing the Fremantle branches), my main outing was to Kings Park. This [...]

• Acquisitions

  26 August 2011 in Acquisitions, Books

  Gregory Benford and the Editors of Popular Mechanics. The Wonderful Future that Never Was. New York and London: Hearst Books, 2010. A wonderfully illustrated look at techno-optimism from the early 1900s to the 1960s -- much of it American, of course. It's lighthearted in tone, but Benford is no dummy so hopefully the text is [...]