From the bowyer of archaic bows to modern target shooting, and all the usages of the bow through history and modern time.
Tales of the Elder Things, a summary
The first book planned for the Stars Arising setting is an anthology of novellas and novelettes centered around the Elder Things of H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness. i have taken the liberty of reinterpreting some aspects of the Elder Things culture,...
Hunnish archery’s impact upon the Eastern Roman Empire
“You would not hesitate to call them the most terrible of all warriors, because they fight from a distance with missiles [arrows] having sharp bone, instead of their usual [metal] points, joined to the shafts with wonderful skill; then they gallop over the intervening...
A Review of King Arthur: a military history by Michael Holmes
In the book King Arthur:a military history by Michael Holmes (1996), the author attempts to lay out the potential role a hypothetical Arthur could have played in military events around the Romanized Britons attempted defense of Britain against the Anglo-Saxon...
Strategy in the 21st century, a project summary
Strategy is a timeless discipline. Tactical doctrines change as do technological capacity, but the elements of good strategy reoccur time and again through out the centuries. This project is an essay collection written by an amateur historian, with a veteran’s...
UnWelcome Neighbors: the Baiselu
The Baiselu are old friends with the Aracana from their earliest starship days. The Baiselu ships are large clusters of spheres approximately 1 kilometer in diameter. The settlement pattern of the Baiselu has cast them all across the galaxy. They are colonist who seek...
Review of Bova’s Dueling Machine
The Dueling Machine is a novel by Ben Bova from 1969. It is part of his loose Watchman quartet about a space opera future where Terra dominates the galaxy. This story is set around the use of a psychotronic device capable of two participants entering a virtual reality...
Lord of Light, short review
In 1967 Roger Zelazny’s Lord of Light was published. The book would go on to win the Hugo award for best novel in 1968, and be nominated for the Nebula award in the same category. And both are well deserved. Zelazny wrote a novel that is a wonderful blend of science...
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Nature of the Crusades
The Crusades were not just a serious of military campaigns launched by Christian Europe on the strategic defensive against the perceived of Moslem raiding and expansion. The Crusades were also a major expression of religion and cultural vitality.
God’s War by Christopher Tyerman
The book God's War by Christopher Tyerman was published in 2006. It is a large complex examination of the entirety of the Crusades from the 1st through the later Crusades. The book covers both the military actions as well as the political maneuvering behind the...