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Is somebody forgetting the seven military classis of ancient China?
Nope, they're also equally fantastic for what they are.
Clausewitz is very dry, but informative.
Lamoni, Imbrinium, Wanderjar, and The qoryx
I prefer Sun Tzu to be honest.
Lamoni and Wanderjar
I took a class in grad school on theory in warfare, and for my term paper I wrote a 6,000 word essay called 'The Master Approves: Applying Sun Tzu's Theories to Great Campaigns'. I examined the Normandy Invasion from the Allied perspective and the Easter Offensive 1972 from the PAVN as examples of both successfully, and unsuccessfully, applying theory. Part of my argument was that with the successful operation, though Eisenhower and his staff had no knowledge of Sun Tzu at the time, they did actually successfully incorporate his theories, albeit unwittingly. I countered that even knowledge of the text and rigorous study, as was the case among PAVN planners, did not guarantee success if not properly followed as was the case with the Easter Offensive.
In my opinion one of the best pieces I've ever written.
I did lots of studies on how Sun Tzu's teachings were applied by oriental armies - especially to light infantry warfare. Never had a chance to write about it though. God's willing will be when local territorial defense units will get formed and I will finally be in the school of lower command.
Also, I'm thinking about doing a cosmetic change of sorts for Wanderjar. Culturally it'd remain identical. But for a couple years now I've kinda thought about it and 'Afrikaner' doesn't make a whole lot of sense in Greater Dienstad. I've toyed with the idea of Boer Free State, but not sure I like that either. In short, I want to change what I call my people to make it reflect Greater Dienstad so its more unique. Any suggestions, or should I just leave it be and not think too much about it lol
Vo Nguyen Giap considered himself a true disciple of Sun Tzu and made Art of War mandatory reading in the PAVN Ground Forces. The way the Vietnamese fought the First and Second Indochina Wars (Vietnam War) were directly influenced by Sun Tzu. The issue really was that party leaders wanted to mesh aspects of Maoist guerrilla theory, itself also based on Sun Tzu, with the PAVN experience and make the inevitable leap from the NLF phase to the People's War (conventional warfare) phase before Vietnam was ready to do so, hence the Tet and Easter Offensives.
Some people incorrectly believe that the PAVN finally 'got it right' in 1975, but this is not the case. By that point, the ARVN were a highly competent, well trained military. The US had cut off most of their funding in 1974, and as a result GVN was unable to actually field the army they'd built, leading to its implosion during Black April, as opposed to actually being truly militarily defeated.
I personally use paint.NET as its free, easy to use, and not too shabby. Draw the land/water borders freestyle with pencil tool, then gradually build up topography on a new layer if im doing a geographical map. Once the geography is in place, add a new layer for the borders, and one for political geography. Granted it takes an age, but it looks okish.
It helps to study real coastlines at the scale you're interested in, and borrow off that for your masterpiece.
It's relatively easy. You colour in your nation dark blue like on the GD map and rename it the Stevidian State of Wanderjar. I'm afraid colouring any of my territory in any other colour causes computer crashes.
#truth
Lamoni, The Matthew Islands, Mokastana, Wanderjar, and 1 otherThe qoryx
Stevid, the only man's who's won an NS war by not replying for six weeks until the invader basically goes away, only to find out that they immediately sense the inactivity of the invader and massively ramp up the garrison.
Well played in South Greal, Stevs lmao
Lamoni, The Matthew Islands, Haishan, and The qoryx
Welcome to GD, Carmini! Mokastana will eventually be around with the welcome basket.
As I'm absolute rubbish with designing maps or anything of that nature, would someone be willing to aid me in creating one for The Qoryx?
I'm also about 5 hours away from my personal computer so I only have access to whatever my father (who is in IT for those already cringing) has on his desktop.
Talking about our war?
I've always hand-sketched mine then scanned it on my printer while using GIMP to help finish it off with MS Paint as well.
http://i.imgur.com/Dx8Eq9n.png
Trump/Schwarzenegger 2016 would be boss yo
I was just teasing him about the reference in his last post about Wanderjar's implosion during my individual invasion of South Greal. The RL reason for it was that a month to six weeks went by and Stevid was just busy, no harm no foul. I got busy and literally looking back as SOON as that happened he bolstered everything and took sound advantage of it. Just messing with him :p
Part of the reason I want to map is actually to show where all my units are, and I was keeping in mind all the joint forces pacts I've got. Some of them intersect, Imbrinium and Lyran forces could reasonably share bases without problems, same with Lamoni, USPA and Mac*, but UWO would need a base on the other side of the country. lol
(*Not official that Mac has troops in Wanderjar, only told him that he'd be allowed to base there if he felt it necessary/wanted to)
I just want to point out that a 1910 English translation of The Art of War was either recommended reading, or required reading (I can't remember which) to students at West Point starting in 1912. As Eisenhower graduated in 1915 he was almost certainly well versed in it. Along with the rest of his class, the mythical "class the stars fell on".
Honestly though, they were more enamored with Clausewitz. Understandably so. But I never found either Sun Tsu or Clausewitz that great, or really that revolutionary from a historical point. The basic elements of what they espouse were in active play long before either put pen to paper. Both authors are in fact best taken in if you consider their situations, which would be that they were trying to push what was effectively "common sense" onto affluent leaders who lacked that "common sense" because they lived in isolated wealthy and powerful bubbles from the real world. This is largely different from writings of the likes of Fuller, Guderian, Tukhachevsky, and others in the interwar period (Which I am infinitely more familiar with so I use them) who were more often then not writing for junior officers rather then high leaders.
That said, those are in the top five books I recommend to anyone who wants to get into the subject. It is the essential basis for military strategical thinking. And, of course, practically everything since is based on either of them or both. You absolutely can not understand Fuller without reading Clausewitz, nor can you Guderian, de Gaulle, Tukhachevsky, or others.
Apart from the odd couple of weeks of national servitude (which I now find myself questioning almost weekly), I've been pretty consistent. I actually have a post in the works now. Mwahaha! But I never 'won'. Quite the opposite in fact, but my defensive actions will probably stand as a benchmark to the region on how to defend. The concessions I promised to Wanderjar, as per the peace treaty, have actually been factored in by Morrdh with his updated map. Credit where credit is due, he's on the ball.
Haishan and Wanderjar
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