There Will Be War Volume II
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QUANTUM MORTIS A Mind Programmed by Jeff Sutton, Jean Sutton, and Vox Day
Victoria: A Novel of Fourth Generation War by Thomas Hobbes
FANTASY
One Bright Star to Guide Them by John C. Wright
The Book of Feasts & Seasons by John C. Wright
A Magic Broken by Vox Day
A Throne of Bones by Vox Day
The Gladiator's Song by Vox Day
The Wardog's Coin by Vox Day
The Last Witchking by Vox Day
Summa Elvetica: A Casuistry of the Elvish Controversy by Vox Day
The Altar of Hate by Vox Day
The War in Heaven by Theodore Beale
The World in Shadow by Theodore Beale
The Wrath of Angels by Theodore Beale
CASTALIA CLASSICS
The Programmed Man by Jean and Jeff Sutton
Apollo at Go by Jeff Sutton
First on the Moon by Jeff Sutton
AUDIOBOOKS
A Magic Broken, narrated by Nick Afka Thomas
Four Generations of Modern War, narrated by William S. Lind
TRANSLATIONS
Särjetty taika
QUANTUM MORTIS Un Hombre Disperso
QUANTUM MORTIS Gravedad Mata
Una Estrella Brillante para Guiarlos
QUANTUM MORTIS Um Homem Desintegrado
QUANTUM MORTIS Gravidade Mortal
Uma Magia Perdida
Mantra yang Rusak
La Moneta dal Mercenario
I Ragazzoni non Piangono
QUANTUM MORTIS Тежина Смрти
QUANTUM MORTIS Der programmierte Verstand
Grosse Jungs weinen nicht
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Notes
The Technological War
1. Since we wrote this in 1968-69, the Soviets have invaded Czechoslovakia to consolidate the Empire’s power there; invaded Afghanistan; placed tens of divisions on the Chinese border; interfered in the Middle East; used Cuban mercenaries to destabilize a great part of Africa; and induced the Communist regime in Poland to enslave its own working class. Is further evidence of Soviet aggressive tendencies needed?
2. Robert Strausz-Hupe et al, Protracted Conflict (New York: Harper 1969); Stefan T. Possony, A Century of Conflict, 5th ed. (Chicago: Regnery, 1969).
3. We define as technological base the sum total of resources needed to produce and constantly modernize the tools of war and peace. Those resources include scientists, inventors, engineers, laboratories, laboratory equipment, funds, information, incentives, etc., as well as industry and the economy as a whole, which we do not discuss in this book.
4. The theory is essentially that of Lewis Richardson, who made up the elaborate differential equations to try to demonstrate the mathematical relationship between the arms expenditures of nations and international blocs, and found a reasonable fit in the single case of the Pre-World War I Entente and Alliance. No empirical confirmation of the Richardson theory has been found, and the specialized assumptions required to make the World War I history fit the theory leave the entire effort in a questionable state. Richardson’s theory is presented in L.F. Richardson, Arms and Insecurity (Pittsburgh, Boxwood Press, 1960). His most vigorous contemporary champion is Anatol Rappaport, in Fights, Games, and Debates (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1960).
The results of one unsuccessful attempt to find a modern instance of a Richardson arms race are reported in Pournelle, Stability and National Security (U.S. Air Force, 1969). We have found that in the nuclear era, expenditures on weapons simply do not fit the Richardson equations.
5. In common engineering parlance, an increase by an order of magnitude is approximately a tenfold increase. Astronomers, be wary.
6. We would, of course, have not only to invent and develop these bombers but build them in quantity, fly them, train the pilots, etc., and do it all within the time limits of U.S.S.R. deployment.
7. Since this book is intended to be a discussion of principles, not of current specific problems, it may be well in print long after the present war in Vietnam is ended. We venture to predict, however, that for many years after this is written (1970) there will be wars in Asia, including South East Asia and the area formerly known as Indo-China.
8. The authors recall the frustration of Wernher Von Braun and other rocketry experts when the last of the V-2 rockets brought to the United States were used, not for the development of rocket sciences, but as supersonic test beds for aircraft parts to avoid spending the funds required for construction of supersonic wind tunnels. This retarded the development of both missiles and supersonic aircraft, of course.
9. General d’Armee Andre Beaufre, Introduction to Strategy (New York: Praeger, 1965), p. 22.
10. Demosthenes, First Phillipic to the People of Athens.
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Editor's Introduction to 'CASTER
1. Accidents are the principal cause of death among young people 15-24 years of age. In 1978, deaths among males 15-24 years of age due to accidents were over 100 per 100,000; the next highest cause was suicide, at 20 per 100,000; and after that comes malignant neoplasms at 7.7. Deaths from all causes among young males were 174 per 100,000.
2. The 1968 Tet Offensive was one of the most disastrous military operations of all time; at its end, the Viet Cong had practically ceased to exist. It is interesting to note that it is still reported as a “victory” for the communists; as indeed it was, for though they had lost on the battlefield, the North Vietnamese had won on the Six O’Clock News. They also eliminated the southern revolutionary forces who might have opposed their absolute rule once the war ended.
3. There were at least as many North Vienamese troops involved in the 1975 invasion of South Vietnam as the United States employed in the Normandy invasion. Over 10,000 supply vehicles were employed; contrast that to Patton’s Red Ball Express employing 5,600 vehicles in 1944, and the scale of North Vietnam’s operations becomes clearer. For a thorough analysis, one cannot do better than read ON STRATEGY, A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War, by Col. Harry G. Summers (Presidio Press, 1982).
4. At least we were spared the final absurdity of watching Le Due Tho and Henry Kissinger accepting Nobel Peace Prizes for “ending” the war. At the time the Agreement was signed, there were over 150,000 North Vietnamese Army Troops in South Vietnam, and both parties knew it. North Vietnam never expected to keep the agreement. One wonders whether the New York Times thought they would.
5. In contrast to the US press, which professed alarm and dismay because we were “widening the war” when we began operations in Cambodia, the North Vietnamese never made any secret of the fact that they were fighting the Indochina War, and that Laos and Cambodia had always been part of the theater of combat. Yet, to this day, one hears the insane argument that US actions “provoked”, and thereby caused, the insurgency of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.
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